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The 7th grade Wu Ji Xian class completed another project in their target language—a financial literacy project named “ru guo wo you yi bai wan,” or, “if I had one million dollars.”

We discovered an even better way to encourage students to speak more in Chinese—by holding a "show and tell" in the target language. 

This past spring, the kindergarten’s Owls and Toucans learned about their teachers' different cultures in the target language. We took time to talk about the mountainous terrain which yields various types of exotic fruit in Honduras and also touched on the volcanos surrounded by lakes in Nicaragua.

This year I had the opportunity to work with my 6th grade dance club to create a piece for the Avenues spring dance concert. We decided to use the Maya Angelou’s poem “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me at All” as a jumping-off point.

In the NYC by Bike Minimester course, students spent the week exploring the world of bicycling. We learned about everything from urban bike safety skills to hands-on bike repair, and, of course, participated in some actual biking. 

To celebrate the 100th day of school, the kindergarten Dragons and Eagles classes completed a group artwork project using 100 colorful dot stickers.

This spring, the Avenues community came together for Ruckus Constructus, our annual, school-wide STEAM fair. It was the first year Avenues held the event at two campuses simultaneously—in New York and São Paulo.

The Avenues Law Review Club has finally published our very first law review. As far as we can tell, we are the first and only high school in the nation to produce one!