Every year, fifth graders dissect squids in Middle School Dean of Student Life and Science Teacher Laurice Hwang‘s Life Science class. It has become as much a rite of passage for fifth graders as their annual reenactment of an ancient Egyptian funeral procession in their Humanities classes. “In Life Science, we ask what […]
As part of the science curriculum, kindergarten students learned about snails, the habitats they live in, and their life cycle. Students also conducted an experiment to see what types of food snails like to eat. In a literacy block, students were asked to think about what snails would say if they could speak like we […]
The Earth Flag Today is Earth Day. 44 years ago on this day, BFS students were part of the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, and you can read all about it on page 6 of the May, 1970 edition of The Life and journalist Stephen Magagnini, BFS Class of ’72, briefly recalled that first […]
Thoughts this week turn to the many wonderful people we know and have known at BFS, particularly those no longer with us. Such thoughts make me feel fortunate to have worked with the late Gilbert Zalman. I so enjoyed my occasional conversations with Gil over the years that I envied his students their near-daily opportunity […]
