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Interpretive Dances about the Industrial Revolution
Avenues seventh graders have been busy learning about the Industrial Revolution in their World Course class, and were lucky enough early in January to have a visit from one of our Artists-in-Residence...
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Celebrating Chinese New Year in Pre-K
For this year’s Chinese New Year, teachers In the Cheng Se pre-K classroom set out to share some precious Chinese traditions with our preschoolers. The result was a full and exciting two-week...
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Mindfulness in the Classroom
Focusing one’s awareness in this way has a relaxing effect on children and adults alike, and mindful moments often punctuate the end of an action-packed school day in first-grade classrooms. The...
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Parents Help Children Understand Traditions in the Early Learning Center
As the Early Learning Center prepared to celebrate the Lunar New Year, we decided to invite our class parents to join us and share a Chinese New Year tradition or craft with the students. We were...
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A Measure of Success: Inching Towards the Perfect Ruler
As part of this year’s first STEAM challenge, fifth and sixth graders were challenged to create their own rulers using an architectural design app called Graphic. Their digital models were then sent...
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Younger Students Celebrate Lunar New Year at School and in the Neighborhood
Lunar New Year, also called Spring Festival, has more than 4,000 years of history. This year, the year of the Monkey, the festival fell on February 8. Avenues Lower School and Early Learning Center...
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Mock Election in Middle School
With the presidential election in full swing, the Middle School has caught the politics bug! The "Political Junkies" club staged a mock election last month, during which the entire Middle School got...
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Upper School Commendation: Design 4 Impact Conference
I February, a team of 20 Avenues Upper School students hosted over 150 guests from NYC and beyond at the first Design 4 Impact conference. Students invited three stakeholder groups—schools, innovators...
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Pi Day Celebration and Competition in Middle School
In the Middle School, it has been a tradition to celebrate Pi Day in our math classes since our first celebration, on March 14, 2013. This year, the seventh and eighth grade enjoyed student-led...
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The Mission Project: Examining 18th Century Philosophy Through Film
10th graders have been studying the social, political and cultural effects of the Reformation, the Age of Absolutism and the Enlightenment. As a culminating project, they analyzed The Mission (1986),...
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