EL Education students learn from fieldwork, experts, and service in addition to learning from text. They use the natural and social environments of their communities as sites for purposeful fieldwork and service connected to academic work, and they use professional experts and citizens with firsthand knowledge of events and issues to ensure accuracy, integrity, and … Continue reading
3rd annual LG Mathlympics Competition On Thursday, students worked together with their math cohort during a full-day math competition. Students competed in a variety of activities: free throw shoot-outs, solving KenKen, coding challenges (LightBot), BreakoutBCS (an escape-room type challenge), and a variety of other competitions (24, 7-ate-9, Nim, SuperCircles, chess, folding origami, and more!) At … Continue reading
6th Grade ELA – Gentrification In ELA, students have started their study of gentrification. They have begun researching the positives and negatives of gentrification in general and specifically in The Mission neighborhood in San Francisco. On Friday, students had the opportunity to see the effects of gentrification in different Brooklyn neighborhoods, specifically Bedford Stuyvesant, Sunset … Continue reading
A great ET to kick off spring semester! Continue reading
January Intensives are one of the favorite parts of the year for our lower grades students. After a semester of hard work, often culminating in PBATs, final projects, and other summative assessments, students have the opportunity to dive into one topic of their choice for the week. During intensives they engage in field work, hand … Continue reading
1/22-25 – Lower Grades had Mastery Support and Intensives. Stay tuned for the longer post with tons of pictures! https://www.smore.com/wpm48 1/24 – Brooklyn Collaborative welcomed Drag Queen Story Hour in our library! DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models. We LOVED hosting! … Continue reading
Check out our longer post here. 6th Grade ELA – Wonder & Kindness In 6th grade, students read Wonder, a story about Auggie, a boy with a cranio-facial condition. The book follows Auggie as he attends his first year of school after previously being home schooled. He experiences the trials and triumphs of most kids … Continue reading
LG Expeditionary Thursday Continue reading
6th Grade Science – Ecosystems 7th Grade ELA – Dystopian Literature 8th Grade Math – Mathematical Modeling Continue reading
Over the summer, the TV show The Last OG was filmed in Gowanus. Some members of the crew wanted to make sure there was a give back to the community since they shot many of the scenes in or near the Gowanus Houses. Our Parent Coordinator Tracey was able to work with them on a … Continue reading
Lat week our 6th graders embarked on there crew orientation camping trip! They spent three days and two night in upstate NY where they worked with Outward Bound instructors. They camped out, cooked their meals over the fire, went hiking, completed the high ropes course, participated in team building initiatives and had some time for … Continue reading
On Friday 12/2, the 8th grade science class went to our oyster restoration station in Red Hook to collect data as part of our citizen science partnership with the Billion Oyster Project with teachers William and Abby. Our students took measurements of the tagged oysters in our cage, recorded descriptions of the location, and tested … Continue reading
