Tag: ‘ISB’
Big News from The International School of Brooklyn
by Karen on 10/04/11 | 0 Comment(s)
It seems our middle school options in Brooklyn have expanded today as the International School of Brooklyn (ISB) announced it will open an independent middle school in September 2012. The program will follow the inquiry-based Middle Years Programme of the International Baccalaureate . It will continue to offer a bilingual program (Spanish/English or French/English) as [...]
Winter Break Presidents Week Camps 2011
by Karen on 2/10/11 | 1 Comment(s)
Those holiday breaks! What’s a parent to do?! It’s hard not to view these school holidays as anything but a lot of juggling schedules and expenses, but there is an upside: your child can try something new and have a great time! This year there is almost double the amount of Presidents Week camps from [...]
Be prepared to blow your budget: book fairs
by Karen on 11/30/10 | 1 Comment(s)
I have been known to blow my whole monthly budget at book fairs- which is why I am particularly concerned that 3 good ones are all coming up around holiday time. I’ll have to hold myself back…. The International School of Brooklyn’s French and Spanish Children’s Book Fair (Friday, Dec. 3rd and Saturday, Dec. 4th) [...]
Event Picks: Oct. 2nd and 3rd: Parades, Pumpkins and Fall Fests
by Karen on 9/30/10 | 0 Comment(s)
What a wonderful weekend of choices we have in front of us. The sweet and fun Ragamuffin Parade in Bay Ridge is a special treat this weekend- a fun precursor to Halloween. There are some pumpkin fests, Dr. Nebula’s Science Show, a serious kids’ music jam on Saturday for a Brooklyn school, the Hoboken Arts [...]
ISB to end immersion playgroups and new group to start ones up
by Karen on 6/07/10 | 0 Comment(s)
A tipster sent in this surprising news: The International School of Brooklyn will end its long-running French & Spanish Language Immersion Playgroups program in June 2010. The program was started in 2004 and ran playgroups in six Brooklyn neighborhoods. The ISB release states, “Two ISB French Enrichment Program teachers, who have been with the program [...]
Event Picks for March 20th and on….
by Karen on 3/19/10 | 2 Comment(s)
What to go to this weekend? How about: Ride Brooklyn (fix a flat and learn tips) Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club Go Green Expo and Architectural Digest’s Home Design Show Lizards and Snakes: Alive! and Butterflies and Journey to the Stars at the American Museum of Natural History Children’s Museum of Manhattan free admission day Brooklyn [...]
New School Openings: Clinton Hill, Prospect Lefferts, Carroll Gardens
by Karen on 1/06/10 | 2 Comment(s)
Clinton Hill: I was walking through Clinton Hill this morning and saw that the The Brooklyn Free School has a sidewalk chalkboard (how appropriate!) announcing the location of their new space at 372 Clinton Avenue (between Greene and Lafayette). There were piles of garbage going out and new furniture going in. (This school won our [...]
