Clik here to view.
Week in Pictures September 22-26
Vendredi: Que faisaient les matelots sur le pont de leur navire pendant les longues journées de traversée? Ils s’occupaient en faisant des noeuds! Des élèves d’une classe de CM2 s’essaient au cordage...
View ArticlePas doué pour les maths!
“I’m not gifted for math!” We often hear this phrase, and it strikes me as filled with lasting consequences. The phrase implies that there are certain people who have a gift for math, which means they...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Week in Pictures September 29 – October 3
Vendredi: “Non seulement j’ai toujours le trac sur scène mais je l’ai en ce moment devant vous!” explique avec beaucoup d’humilité le célèbre comédien Francis Perrin aux élèves de collège du Lycée...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Un échange qui provoque un regain d’intérêt pour l’allemand
Les élèves allemands avec leurs correspondants lors d’une excursion à Central Park (crédit: A. Azria) “The people, the city, the buildings, everything is so different!”, s’exclame Franka, une jeune...
View ArticleClik here to view.
From Madrid to NYC, Flamenco Whirls to LFNY
How did you get into flamenco? I discovered Flamenco in New York right after graduating from the Lycée, but I had been studying other styles of dance (ballet, tap and jazz) at Broadway Dance Center...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Week in Pictures October 6 – October 10
Friday: Kindergartners all the way to 5th graders celebrated UN Day at the Lycée, an important day to celebrate our diversity – with over 50 nationalities represented in our school. Happy UN Day!...
View ArticleCulture: Ours to Conquer
Anyone who has ever lived in France will probably have encountered an avenue, a school, a square or some other municipal space that has been named after one of the great French writers of the twentieth...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Week in Pictures October 18 – October 24
Vendredi: Cours sur Descartes pour ces élèves de terminale ES avec le professeur de philosophie du Lycée, Elfège Leylavergne. Jeudi: Ryan Head, de l’ONG Action contre la Faim, explique à une classe de...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Taking Meta-Moments in a Digital World
In the Secondary School Computer Lab. The world seems to be increasingly complicated. The only constant is rapidly accelerating technological change. How do we teach our children to act appropriately...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hands in the Dough
Elementary students trying to figure out how a salad spinner works. It is not every day that one encounters three aspiring scientists sitting side by side in the school cafeteria, but that is exactly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Week in Pictures October 27 – October 31
Monday: French author Maylis de Kerangal came to the LFNY to discuss Romantic Writing with the 11th graders. “Les événements du réel sont tressés organiquement dans la fiction”, says the author of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Avec Hervé This, les sciences ont bon goût!
Hervé This, sur la scène de l’auditorium du Lycée le 30 octobre 2014, en train de préparer un dessert à l’ananas un peu particulier… Jeudi, nous avons eu le plaisir de rencontrer Hervé This,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Students Paint with a New Palette: Sound
Leese Walker with LFNY students on Thursday, October 9 2014. Option Théâtre thrives when we give students the opportunity to meet performers and professionals. It introduces them to new ways of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
UN Day – Unity in Difference
A show by Primary students during UN Day 2014 at the LFNY. Every October, LFNY primary students celebrate United Nations Day, in honor of the founding of the UN on October 24, 1945. According to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ants We Are Not
Image from the documentary A Path Appears. There is little doubt that any educator would have responded in the same way. Upon reading the following sentence in a New York Times book review, one’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Week in Pictures November 3 – 7
Mardi: Les élèves de 1ere L et ES en apprennent plus sur la période cubiste en art à travers une excursion au MoMa. Lundi: C’est la sortie des classes en maternelle! Les enfants attendent sagement...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Un élève du LFNY sélectionné pour la TED Youth Conference
La popularité des célèbres TED talks gagne le terrain éducatif. Depuis le début de l’année 2014, TED a lancé une branche spéciale pour les écoles appelée TED Ed Clubs. “Il s’agit de ressources en libre...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Julia Livi: a bicultural graphic designer
Since you graduated in 2002, you have found your passion in teaching art here in New York. Tell us more. Everything I have done since 2002 has culminated into the creation of a bilingual picture book...
View ArticleThe Play Must Go On
Last June, several educators from the Lycée Français de New York, including myself, attended the annual conference of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). In addition to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Week in Pictures November 10 – 14
Wednesday: The entire 8th grade level is working on the idea of “tribe” during a week-long project with artist in residence Martine Fougeron. Fougeron is a French photographer and LFNY alumna....
View Article