Math at the FAA: Inside & Out of the Classroom
Inside the Classroom – Singapore Math This year, the FAA implements the Singapore Math Method. First developed by Singapore’s Ministry of Education in the 1980s, its efficacy has been proven by decades of use in different countries around the world (Trends In International Mathematics And Science Study, 2009). Why Singapore Math at the FAA? Singapore […]
The Exit Project
What is the Exit Project? Every year, our 5th graders end the school year with an Exit Project. But what is this endeavor? The exit project supports the school’s pedagogy on learning by actively engaging in real-world and meaningful multidisciplinary projects. Project-based learning involves a dynamic classroom approach in which students develop deep content knowledge […]
Street Art Project: Inside/Out
Have you seen those large-scale faces looking at you from the windows of the school? Have you recognized some of them? The models are the middle schoolers students who participated in an art project called Inside/out. Inside/out was created in 2011 by the French street artist JR who received the TED prize and asked […]
Fostering a Love of Reading and Creativity
We recognize the importance of bilingual reading and encourage our students to read in both languages. Our library is filled with a wide range of bilingual books, and we offer guided reading sessions in both languages. A Picture Book Genre Study In Humanities class, 6th graders participated in a Picture Book genre study; learning about […]
Students Meet Authors
Fruitful Discussions This month has been rich in exchanges with different famous authors: The K to 3rd graders virtually met Celine Lamour Crochet, who wrote the book ”Titouan le goëland”. The main character is a gull who lives on the coast of Brittany with a whole colony of gulls. Nothing differentiates him from the others, […]
“Face à Face” The Musical
Student testimonial about their 10-months project to set up this Musical
