Class II students shared their innovative thinking at this year’s Invention Convention, held at Marymount’s 97th Street Campus. Leading up to this culminating event, students worked in pairs or small groups to generate ideas in order to solve problems in their world. While the Invention Convention is an annual tradition at Marymount, Lower School science [...]
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Class V Brings Greek Mythology to Life
April 26, 2012
The timeless stories of Greek Mythology came alive in the Middle School Commons last week. Under the guidance of Mr. Craig DiFolco, Class V students acted out a variety of tales, bringing together their knowledge in an interdisciplinary way. Each allegory performed addressed a different phenomenon. For instance, Persephone’s trips to the Underworld explain the [...]
read moreLS Invites Author to Assembly
April 17, 2012
Kelly Kasouf, author of The Super Adventures of Sophie and the City, was invited to a recent Lower School assembly for students in Kindergarten and Class I. She delighted the students by reading her book and discussing her journey as an author from generating a narrative idea to creating a published book. Ms. Kasouf told [...]
read moreClass II Creates in the Fab Lab!
April 13, 2012
Class II visted the Fab Lab at Marymount’s 97th Street Campus for an exploration of the Fab Lab led by Mr. Jaymes Dec. Mr. Dec fielded questions about fabrication and invention before helping the students use an internet-based design program called TinkerCad to draft their own pendants for necklaces. Then with the help of the [...]
read moreMarymount Makers
April 12, 2012
The Fab Lab at our 97th Street Campus has been buzzing with activity this year. Its administrator, Jaymes Dec, came to Marymount with a vision that schools should have spaces where students can tinker, experiment, design, create and iterate; in short, a place where students can make things. He envisions conversations between parents and students [...]
read moreClass V Investigates Artifacts at the Rubin Museum of Art
April 11, 2012
Class V traveled downtown to take part in a new educational series developed by the Rubin Museum of Art. The class engaged in the hands-on investigative techniques of professional museum curators, historians, and art handlers. Using inquiry and observation, Class V looked deeply at objects from the museum’s collection to uncover their religious, artistic, and [...]
read moreClass VII Study Tour: France and Spain
April 3, 2012
Various points in France and Spain offered destinations for the annual Class VII study tour. The trip allowed students to explore historic and cultural sites of the countries that are part of their World Language curriculum while also learning about the roots of the founding order of Marymount School, the Religious of the Sacred Heart [...]
read moreMarymount Singers’ European Tour
April 3, 2012
Class X student, Desirée H. wrote the following on the Marymount Singers’ European spring tour: The Marymount Singers embarked to the great city of Delft, famous for the painter Vermeer and exquisite lovely blue and white Delftware ceramics. Subsequent to their arrival, they headed toward Amsterdam to the Anne Frank Huis. They adored the city [...]
read moreClass IV Finds Revolutionary Voice
March 24, 2012
On March 13, 14, and 15, each member of Class IV performed an original speech in character for Revolutionary Voices. The interdisciplinary presentation was the culmination of Class IV’s study of early America and the Revolutionary War. The audience was rapt as they were transported back to the late 1700′s and treated to visits from [...]
read moreWorld Civilization Presentations Wow Judges
March 16, 2012
As the culmination of Class IX’s Humanities multi-disciplinary curricula, each student gave a presentation Friday, March 9. The rousing exhibition came after months of research and preparation. The topics were diverse, ranging from the development of the ancient Chinese sport of Cuju to a description of the underworld in the Celtic Afterlife. The judges were [...]
read moreMS Digital Photography Club Gains Perspective
March 5, 2012
Under the direction of Ms. Treleaven, the Class IV students in the Digital Photography Club studied how to make impressive images with their digital cameras. They began by exploring the art of perspective. Students learned to take photos from a variety of angles, showing their subjects in new and interesting ways. They moved on to [...]
read moreClass II Celebrates Dutch Day
March 5, 2012
Dutch Day, the culminating activity to the Dutch New Amsterdam study took place Tuesday, February 27. Wearing period costumes from New Amsterdam in the 1600s, the girls learned what life was like without electricity as they worked only by sunlight and candlelight (battery operated). The class was lucky enough to have a special visit from [...]
read moreKindergarten Poetry Publishing Party
March 5, 2012
On February 27, all three Kindergarten sections met in the Alumnae Parlor for an afternoon devoted to sharing original poetry. In small groups, the girls had the opportunity to read the poems they had written and illustrated themselves. The party was capped by treats for all involved.
read moreMiddle School Students Make Prosthetic Hands
February 22, 2012
As part of their science curriculum, Class VII students are learning about human biology includingthe study of the skeletal and muscular systems. Students closely examined their own hands and noted how their joints and bones moved. They also dissected chicken wings to observe how bones, tendons, muscles, and ligaments work together. To culminate their study, Middle [...]
read moreClass VII Gives Rousing Shakespeare Performance
February 22, 2012
Class VII recently delighted parents, faculty, and friends when they performed selected scenes from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in the Middle School Commons. The performance represents the capstone of Mr. DiFalco’s Speech and Drama program for middle school students. All Class VII students played their parts using the comedy’s original text with perfect diction [...]
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MS Students Visit ABT Studios
February 9, 2012
As part of the dance curriculum in the Middle School students in Classes IV and V learn and practice the seven movements of classical ballet. This semester, the students are studying Swan Lake. Students learn about the music, the story, and the characters of the ballet to more fully understand how a story is told [...]
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Kindergarten Publishing Party
January 30, 2012
On January 27, all three Kindergarten sections met in the Alumnae Parlor for an afternoon of sharing. In small groups, the girls had the opportunity to read the fairy tales they had written and illustrated themselves.
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Knitting Brigade: Sharing Time and Talents
January 30, 2012
The Knitting Brigade started out the year with huge hopes and a small membership. Though comprised of only six members and a faculty moderator, the girls instantly clicked and bonded over big dreams for the club, quickly making new patterns, new records, and new friends. Some even spread the Brigade’s message to their peers, and [...]
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Class VI Performs Updated Canterbury Tales
December 10, 2011
On the mornings of December 7, 8, and 9, Class VI gave three wonderful performances of vignettes from The Canterbury Tales. Rather than perform the stories in their fourteenth-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer’s voice, Class VI imbued the stories with new life by adapting them to reflect a more modern vernacular. After introducing the performance in [...]
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Architect Visits Class VIII Art
December 1, 2011
Paul Regan, of Paul Regan Architect Inc., gave a presentation to Class VIII focused on architectural model building. The class is digitally designing dream homes using Google SketchUp and will soon be building their own scale models. Mr. Regan covered the basics of scale paper model building and then met with each student individually to discuss their [...]
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