For several weeks now, the French PreKindergarteners and French and Spanish 5th graders have been eager participants in a dance project, an initiative to mix body expression and spatial ways of learning that started when Constance Du Bois (ISB 6th grade French language and humanities teacher) generously offered to pioneer a dance class to explore [...]
It’s not just an excellent place to grab an emergency breakfast of pain au chocolat 100 feet from ISB’s front door – Court Street Grocers is now a full-fledged restaurant, with star chef Josh Sobel on board and ready for your party of 12, any night but Friday, for a refined but relaxed private dinner [...]
Martha’s Vineyard Getaway Chilmark. That’s where this 3 bedroom, 3 bath hilltop retreat is located, on one and a half forested acres in the Village of…Chilmark, on Martha’s Vineyard. Where chilling was invented, by a handsome seafarer named Mark, who rides a unicorn down Main Street every night at sunset, passing out gin & tonics [...]
Hey. You. Yeah, you, on the sofa in your old sweats, digging at that pint of Chunky Monkey, scanning Netflix while your significant other fiddles around with PowerPoint for some work thing tomorrow… What’s up? You used to be a player. We know, because we’ve heard the stories, how you got banned from both Bungalow [...]
ISB students (and families!) walked almost 200 collective miles (that’s over 1,000 laps!) around the school building, carrying water jugs, to raise money and awareness for the organization Kids for Kids. Kids for Kids serves children and families in Darfur, Sudan, bringing them tools and education to maintain clean water and sustainable agriculture. To date, [...]
During the 2nd grade Unit of Inquiry, “The Land and Us,” the students are involved in an in-depth exploration of how people adapt to the land and geography around them. The French 2nd graders took this concept to an artistic level, looking at the concept of map manipulation. Under the guidance of French art teacher [...]
Thank You! To the many ISB teachers, parents, and community members who volunteered to take the students on amazing adventures, leading activities and workshops from all corners of the world! Please visit our YouTube channel to see a video slideshow of the workshops! Marisol Almeida – Mexican Maracas Hélène Amieva – Beignets Charles Atkins – [...]
ISB Middle School Director, Carlos Martinez, and Middle School French teacher, Constance Du Bois, hosted a roundtable for International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (MYP) Language teachers on Friday, April 5. As a leader in language learning among the local schools that follow the MYP, the team at ISB stepped up to lead this roundtable and [...]
Spring is here in Brooklyn! ISB 6th grade Community Service Club is working with Gowanus Canal Conservancy (@gowanusgreen) to maintain the tree beds in the neighborhood!
The ISB community was treated to a special visit today from Hélène Conway-Mouret, Minister Delegate for French Nationals Abroad (attached to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs), who is visiting the French community in New York and Washington, DC this week along with French Consul General Bertrand Lortholary. Minister Conway-Mouret is particularly focusing on bilingual [...]
