by newschoolsyr | Nov 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
The 3rd, 4th and 5th graders are taking part in Pixie class. Pixie is a philosophical reading program. We read the story of a girl named Pixie, very s-l-o-w-l-y. We stop very often to analyze Pixie and what she means when she says things like “but do I belong to...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 24, 2015 | 2015-2016
The younger students, K-4, are doing an author study of Cynthia Rylant. We have read picture books in which she gives humorous and touching insights into her early years, The Relatives Came and When I Was Young In the Mountains. We have discovered that Cynthia Rylant...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 24, 2015 | 2015-2016, Kindergarten and 1st grade
Folktales Retold is a class in which the kindergarten and first grade students meet two times a week during Silent Reading time to listen to picture books of folktales. We have read several versions of Little Red Riding Hood. Some were retellings of the traditional...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 23, 2015 | 2015-2016, grade 2, math
A small group of 2nd graders has been working on adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers with regrouping. We started by reviewing what a two-digit number is and how important the “place” is for the digit. How different a 24 and a 42 can be even though they have the...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 21, 2015 | 2015-2016, grade 1, grade 2
Evan, Glady, Aurelia, Etienne, Rowyn, Simon and Valor are participating in Sentence Stretch, a writing class. They take turn choosing topics to write about, like Halloween, solid shapes and winter. They write at least three sentences each. The students write each...
