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February 14, 2025
February 14, 2025
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CBS New York Interview

CBS New York interviewed HudsonWay Immersion School founder Sharon Huang and NJ Campus Principal David Heller at #LunarFest2025! They shared how HudsonWay empowers students to become biliterate in Spanish or Mandarin. English-speaking families are choosing HudsonWay for its unique immersion approach and the importance of learning more than one language in today's world!
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December 7, 2024
December 7, 2024
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LIFE AT HWIS

At HudsonWay Immersion School, our commitment to academic excellence is not just about textbooks—it's about hands-on learning that sparks curiosity and fosters critical thinking. Recently, our Science teacher Ms. Dalma Felenyi led the 6th and 7th grade students in an exciting project exploring chemical interactions and the kinetic energy of particles. The students investigated what happens to gas particles when heated and cooled, diving into scientific concepts while developing essential skills like collaboration, problem-solving, and experimentation.
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November 14, 2021
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Video
November 14, 2021
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Hispanic Heritage Celebration of “Rainbow of Cultures”

On October 24, HWIS hosted a free virtual celebration showcasing a “Rainbow of Cultures”. One of the highlighted HudsonWay projects was a multidisciplinary project led by NJ Spanish teacher Maria Campana...
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November 14, 2021
Liberty Science Center Field Trip
November 14, 2021
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Field Trip to Liberty Science Center

The students explored many different kinds of exhibits during this field trip. They observed a variety of fish that are found in the Hudson River, monkeys that are not indigenous to our state, chameleons, cockroaches, praying mantises, and snakes OH MY!
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October 1, 2021
October 1, 2021
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ARCTIC TIE – a mnemonic for HudsonWay’s Values

In the first few weeks of school students took a deep dive into what it means to live the values of HudsonWay - Accountability, Respect, Communication, Teamwork, Innovation, Community Service, Transparency, Integrity, Excellence. Teacher Yonca Oktay led a rich discussion on each value, what it looks and sounds like, and created scenarios that demonstrated them. Teacher Shanshan Zhang created games to help her students internalize their meanings.
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October 1, 2021
October 1, 2021
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Welcome Teacher’s College student teachers

For the 4th year, HWIS-NY has partnered with Columbia University’s Teacher’s College to provide an environment for student teachers to get real life experience teaching in the classroom supported by a mentor teacher. In exchange, HWIS benefits from the ideas and additional support that these teachers provide.
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August 11, 2021
August 11, 2021
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An Enriching Summer Camp

Our Summer Camp 2021 at our NY campus has been nothing short of an educational, fun, immersive, and a joyous experience for campers of all ages and languages! Each 2-week session was theme-based and boy, did our staff outdo themselves with engaging the campers every session!
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June 23, 2021
June 23, 2021
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Science Fair Challenges

Our science fairs are always done in both the target language (Mandarin or Spanish) and in English. This year we added some unique challenges such as our Solar Oven challenge in which students were divided into teams...
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June 23, 2021
Explorers Mural
June 23, 2021
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NY Explorer Mural

During this COVID year sculpture artist Walter Pineda completed a mural in the NY campus honoring the spirit of exploration around the world.  Based solely on images, he freehanded a 3D map of the world...
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June 23, 2021
June 23, 2021
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Virtual Session and Meet and Greet with Young Adult Fiction writer Elizabeth Lim

Having read the first of the Blood of Stars duology, Spin the Dawn, our 6th and 7th Graders in Ms. Poon’s English language arts class had the opportunity to ask questions of author Elizabeth Lim in a virtual session at HudsonWay Immersion School.
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June 23, 2021
Self-Portraits
June 23, 2021
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Year-end Self Portraits

NJ art teacher Christine Maloney developed a project where students in Grades 1-7 were asked to create a self-portrait using watercolor paint.  They studied observational drawing making drawings showing backgrounds with one point perspective and shading.
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April 12, 2021
NY G2 Winter Story Book
April 12, 2021
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Literacy Month

This past month of March was literacy month, and our Mandarin grade 2 students reviewed articles written, typed and illustrated by our 4th and 5th grade Mandarin students, which served as inspiration for their books reflecting on “The Winter”.  
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March 10, 2021
March 10, 2021
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Bilingual Spanish-English Newspaper “Verde, Amarillo, Blanco” by HWIS Students – Issue 02

Grade 5 & 6 Spanish students taking an elective entitled “In the News” learning about the different roles in publishing a newspaper in both Spanish and English. Here is the second issue of the newspaper. Read on.
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March 8, 2021
March 8, 2021
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HWIS Celebrates Literacy Month

We kick off our month in Week 1 with students “dressed” in celebration of their favorite characters in literature. Students can come to school dressed according to the theme of the day:  Pajamas (Monday), Foreign Character Day (Tuesday), Silly Stories (Wacky Wednesday), Myths and Legends (Thursday), and Fantasy (Friday)
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February 4, 2021
February 4, 2021
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Poetry inspiration from Amanda Gorman

Our NY 6th and 7th grade students, inspired by Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, studied alliteration and figurative language, and authored poems about their hopes and dreams for the future. 
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