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Little Red Schoolhouse

High School

Lower School teachers have been thinking together about the goals we set for social studies, in particular the conceptual goals that underlie our projects, trips and written tasks. As much as in literacy or math, we design a program to reflect students’ developmental orientation. We meet them where they are, tapping into their interests and curiosity within the framework of their realm of understanding. For example, we know that the younger child learns through concrete, personal experience – a trip or interview is a springboard for extended learning as your child reflects, questions, draws and writes about an exciting experience, turning it into new and deeper understanding. As the student matures and her worldview broadens, she extracts more and more information from books and symbolic communication, linking this to direct, interactive experience. Eventually, around Third Grade, students are ready to leave what we call the ”here and now” and enter the world of “long ago and far away;” to study those things that cannot be visited directly, tasted or touched. Thanks to the experiential foundation of their earlier years, eight and nine year olds are prepared to appreciate the flow and evolution of history and to conceptualize a timeline leading from then to now.

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Joffrey Ballet School

Dance Schools
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Bowery Ballroom, The

Nightclubs
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Katz's Delicatessen

Restaurants $
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Iridium Jazz Club

Nightclubs
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J.Crew

Clothing
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Librería Lectorum

Bookstores+
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Christian Dior

Clothing
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Argosy Book Store

Bookstores+
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SoulCycle Tribeca

Fitness Centers
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Museum of American Finance

Museums and Culture
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Tribeca Film Festival

Events
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Big Apple Greeter

Tours
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National Sports Museum

Museums and Culture
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Mandarin Oriental

Hotels $$$
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Bank Street School for Children

Middle School
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Collegiate School

Middle School
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Collegiate School

High School
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Studio School

Middle School
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D'agostino Supermarkets

Supermarket+
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Brearley School

High School
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Brearley School

Middle School
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Solar Salon

Beauty Salons
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Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan

High School
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Innovation Bike Shop

Sporting Goods Stores
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Harlem Tae Kwon Do

Martial arts
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Charlie Parker Jazz Festival

Jul/Aug/Sep
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Charlie Parker Jazz Festival

Events
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The Harlem International Film Festival

Events