by newschoolsyr | Apr 6, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, Kindergarten, language arts, language arts phonemic awareness
Once a week during journal time, the youngest students are part of a class called Silly Sentences. Here they play with puzzle pieces to make sentences that are bound to make them laugh. After making two or three sentences, the children copy and illustrate their...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 6, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, Kindergarten, math
Over the last few months the Kindergarten students explored counting, coins (pennies, nickels and dimes), measurement using standard units, and adding and subtracting using games and their workbooks. Students compared lengths of object using a ruler. They used a...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 15, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, grade 2, Kindergarten, science, science grades K-2, Uncategorized, youngest students
This winter, students in Kindergarten through Second Grade participated in a class on growing cycles. We started this class out by talking about our cycles in our own lives. We discussed the months of the year and did an activity where we did all the cycles in...
by newschoolsyr | Feb 13, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, Kindergarten, science, Social Studies, visual arts
To finish up our Animal Habitat unit each child created a collage of an animal in its habitat. First they had to decide where the horizon line was going to be. Then what time of day they wanted to depict. Some picked night, some sunset, or mid-day. After finishing the...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 9, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, Kindergarten, language arts, Social Studies, youngest students
The younger and middle group of students have listened to the book Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. While listening to the book, we made a chart of interesting words and the main characters that we heard about. We also got a chance to make...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 9, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, Kindergarten, language arts, math
The Kindergartners listened to the book Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews. After reading, counting dots and discussing each page, students have been working on making their own Ten Blue Dots Book. During each class, students get to work on a page or two by drawing their...
