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How a Grandparent’s Great Idea Helped Shape the Fourth Grade Curriculum

Sonja Johansson is the grandmother of BFS fourth grader Toby and first grader Lena.  In the fall she sent Lower School Fourth Grade Head Teacher Bea Bartolotta the book Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan, a Newbury Award-winning and Coretta Scott King Author and Illustrator Honored […]

Time Traveling to Quaker New Amsterdam

    In early May, six fourth grade teachers, led by Head Teacher Bea Bartolotta and 4C Head Teacher Amy Hertz,  journeyed with their 66 students to New York State’s oldest house of worship, the Old Quaker Meeting House in Flushing.  The structure, built in 1694 is the second oldest house of worship in the […]