CONGRATS TO OUR ACIS CHAMPION VARSITY BASEBALL TEAM
Boys Varsity Baseball beat Portledge 10-0 this week to become 2015 ACIS Division A champions! The team will play Portledge again in the NYSAIS quarterfinals on Saturday. More photos and info.
MAY: A MONTH OF GREAT STUDENT PERFORMANCES
SENIOR EARNS PRESTIGIOUS GIRL SCOUT AWARD
DeAndra F. '15 was honored with the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest award a Girl Scout can receive, last week. Congratulations! She earned it for a project she ran focusing on childhood obesity in urban areas, which encouraged students to better themselves, inside and out, through workshops and booklets she developed.
SENIOR PROJECTS
Seniors Will B., Sophie H., Maya C. and Emma N. presented their Senior Project presentations, the culmination of an intensive, year-long study. Will focused on the relationship between new sincerity and post modern irony in David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest." Sophie talked about icons using Marilyn Monroe as a case study of someone who is remembered more for her persona than for her work.
Maya explained how gymnastics is physics in motion, using Newton's Laws of Motions and Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment to illustrate aspects of the sport. Emma looked at Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" through an Iranian lens, using Azar Nafisi "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books" as a guide.
KINDERGARTNERS LAUNCH 2 TOY STORES & PIZZERIA
Kindergartners in Ms. Paller's class opened their own pizzeria -- they delivered "order in" pies (made from a recipe by Mario Batali!) to parents and waited on Ms. Khordoc's class in person. Ms. Khordoc's students learned the ins and outs of running a toy store -- they made and sold toys of their own. More photos.
SOFTBALL TEAM
Congratulations to our very young, but determined, Girls Varsity Softball team, which embodied the value of hard work and closed the season on a roll, winning 5 games in a row! The team looks forward to its first year in AAIS softball with confidence. Read about their triumphs on our blog.
2ND GRADE CREATES INDOOR HIGH LINE MUSEUM
Second grade teacher Helen Birney writes, "After our visit to the High Line, 2B split up into three groups to take on a first-ever second grade project inspired by their visit to the eighth grade science museum. Through research, building and creating, we made an indoor High Line museum that featured the past, present and future of the High Line, using blocks, shoeboxes and informational posters." More photos.
TENNIS TEAM
Boys Varsity Tennis qualified for the ACIS semifinals for the first time this year, making this season its best yet - congratulations! Read more about the team in The Blotter.
LOWER SCHOOL FIELD DAY
Lower schoolers got their team spirit on at Field Day - they participated in relay races, water balloon tosses, obstacle courses, cheered throughout a teacher/parent tug-of-war and more. More photos.
