March Field Trips and Classes

Creativity and Education Innovation Fair during Seven Days of Genius at the 92nd Street Y:





Appalachian Spring at Tribeca Performing Arts Center:



Science Project and Interview for AMNH Science Alliance Program:



Earth Science Rgents Lab class: spring semester began:



Hall of Biodiversity at AMNH:



Hayden Planetarium:



Fun at the New Victory Theater:



And lastly, another great Broadway Playhouse show (no photos).

January Field Trips:

A couple of shows: Broadway Playhouse and Lionboy at the New Victory, two trips to MoMath (the National Museum of Mathematics), once for a Family Friday program called Creature Cuts, featuring tesselations, and once to explore the museum; the LEGO store and Madison Square Park; AMNH (the spiral of deep time and the Big Bang Theater), and the Transit Museum Holiday Train Show at GCT.

Graffiti and Activism: 2 Exhibits at MCNY

From the City as Canvas exhibit on graffiti art and the Activist New York exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York:

Lower East Side Walking Tour and Tenement Museum

Our homeschool group's exploration of NYC's immigrant history continued with two great trips in one day. The first was a walking tour of the Lower East Side. meandering into Little Italy and Chinatown, where many immigrants settled in the past, and still do today. We had lunch at a knishery and then walked through neighborhoods that had been at once time or the other Jewish, Irish, Italian, German and Chinese, all in one small slice of the city, and learned about their history. We saw some older apartment buildings that were originally tenement buildings, the birthplace of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and the Eldridge Street Synagogue. Then we headed to the Tenement Museum for a special program, where you pretend to be a new immigrant family and are introduced to an actress portraying Victoria Confino, a former tenant at 97 Orchard Street, who tells you about the neighborhood, the building, work opportunities, etc. for your family.