All Community Resources Reading recommendations for ALL ages from the Brooklyn Friends School Library→ Upper School Resources Required reading and guiding questions for Upper School students→ Math activity 1 for rising 11th Grade students→ Math activity 2 for rising 11th Grade students→ *12th Grade IB Visual Arts Students: Create two artworks and finish revising and […]
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 the use of nested loops while creating these patterns and others have learned that changing only a few values in their code can create big […]
BFS Upper Schoolers achieved prize-winning results in the American Math Contests (AMC) administered by the Mathematical Association of America (MMA) . Our top 3 scorers in the AMC 12 contest for 11th and 12th graders were juniors Ashley K, Henry K, and Anna L. Ashley finished in the 83rd percentile of all participants in the United States and in the […]
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 a game-based environment to teach coding and often uses popular games that are already familiar to our Lower School students. By engaging our students in […]
Penny Harvest! by Anna Kotelchuck, 2nd Grade Teacher The Penny Harvest is a longstanding project in our second grade classrooms, and it is an integral component of our math curriculum and our social-emotional curriculum. “Penny Harvest” is run by an organization in NYC called Common Cents. Common Cents was started in 1991 by a father […]
Third graders kicked off their 3D printing unit by working with their kindergarten buddies to create cookie cutters for a baking project. Together, they designed their cookie cutters on paper with pencils and crayons. In technology class, the third graders re-created the paper-and-pencil drawings into the iPad app InkPad. This particular app allows users to […]
Fanny’s 6th grade math class looked at social justice issues through graphs and made a book using iPads! Click Here to View the Book!
