Category: Middle School

Bilingualism Plus One: Middle School Spanish and the DELE

Middle School Jersey City Dele

Starting in the sixth grade, every FAA student is enrolled in an immersion Spanish class for two hours each week. There are many reasons that we require Spanish lessons in middle school, as our students are already attaining fluency in both French and English. Since most of our middle schoolers have been learning and speaking […]

Eighth Graders Design Inclusive Product Solutions for Para-Athlete Challenges

This year, our 8th graders participated in the “Made in 3D” contest, an initiative sponsored by Dassault Systèmes and promoted by La main à la pâte. The challenge? To research, design, and market a product that could assist a para-athlete in participating in a sport. Innovative Solutions for Fencing and Volleyball Students were divided into […]

Scrolling into Slumber: The impact of electronic device usage on sleep

Phone usage before bed

March 10-16 was national Sleep Awareness Week, and it got us thinking about the importance of a good bedtime routine for students, whose minds are rapidly developing and who need many hours of restorative, high-quality sleep every night. Longitudinal studies of adolescents have shown a clear correlation between late night phone or tablet use and […]

Benefits of Spending Time in Nature for Children

Does anyone else hear their mother’s voice identifying plants in their head, or is that just me?  As I walk around Jersey City every spring, she constantly pipes up:                 Ooh, look at the little crocuses popping up!                 There are the daffodils […]