Friends School of Minnesota’s 8th grade capstone project “Love is Love: Defeat the Amendment” wins the New Media category of the Brooklyn Friends School’s Bridge Film Festival 2012 Judges’ Choice Award! Congratulations, 8th graders!
Read more →Yea-we did it! All the third and fourth graders produced a great play: The Fairy Tale Never Told. Students brainstormed, wrote, rehearsed, and staged the play. This intensive drama unit is an opportunity for the students to take part in something that is made possible by all 35 of them working together!
Read more →If Stacie Forbes has substituted for any of your child’s classes—especially art!—you know that she’s a teacher who makes magic wherever she goes. She arrives with bags full of materials (some obvious, some mysterious) and sets her students on a creative journey to turn the things they choose into mobiles, weaving, miniatures, and anything...
Read more →Enjoy a gallery of Friends School of Minnesota 5th and 6th graders’ “Chalk Talk.”
Read more →As we prepared for our Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration, my kindergarten class had many discussions about Dr. King. Students asked important questions about race, identity, and values. My hope is to create an ongoing dialogue with students where they can freely explore, express, and appreciate their uniqueness and beauty, amidst their similarities...
Read more →Friends School of Minnesota middle school students went on a field trip to the Minneapolis Institute of Art one morning in January.
Read more →This fall, Jae Haile Phillips and his dance partner, FSM parent Hannah Esparza, came to Friends School for a week-long Latin dance residency. Jai taught merengue, salsa, hip-hop, fusion (a combination of salsa and hip-hop) with all of the steps and complexity that each of these dances demands.
Read more →What’s everybody doing on a Friday at Friends School of Minnesota? I decided to walk through the building and snap photos of school life at about 1:30 p.m. Pretty neat what goes on around here!
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