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 […]
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 […]
In social studies, fourth grade students learned about New Amsterdam and how New York City evolved over time. As part of their unit, they built a model of what the […]
Design thinking was introduced last week to students as part of our unit on 3D design. Students learned about the stages of the design process: empathizing with the users of […]
4A & 4B began their research work this week using EasyBib in their first integrated library and technology classes. Both classroom teachers (Razi & Elif and Bea & John), literacy […]
Using Code Studio, third and fourth grade students have been working on creating more intricate and complicated patterns using their understanding of geometry and computer code. Some students have discovered […]
Our third and fourth graders have been busy working on refining their coding skills, including the use of loops and nested loops, on Code Studio. Students have been applying their […]
Our third and fourth graders engaged in two fun and unplugged activities (no computers!) to learn about loops and functions in technology class this week. In third grade, students learned […]
Both our third and fourth grade students are in the thick of using Code Studio to learn about coding concepts such as sequences, events, variables and loops. Code Studio uses […]
Our third and fourth graders have started their unit on coding with an introduction to “Computational Thinking” or strategies for problem solving. The strategies include decomposition (i.e., breaking a problem […]
The 4th grade ended the 2014 year with our unit on augmented reality and an integrated Library and Technology class project. First, we thought about the meaning of the words […]
