by newschoolsyr | Nov 27, 2016 | 2016-2017, Grades 5 - 8, science
At the end of last year, we started a unit on Experimental Design. Students had to “save fred” a gummy worm from drowning by only using paperclips. Students had to write down their procedure and then have another group try and follow it word for word....
by newschoolsyr | Nov 27, 2016 | 2016-2017, math, middle school
Two students in 7th grade are working at an advanced pace on 7th grade materials. Since the start of the year, they have reviewed topics of fractions, decimals, and a variety of other topics to bring them up to speed on going through our new text book. Our topics...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
Students in 5th and 6th grade participate bi-weekly in a math table that explores 5th and 6th grade math topics. We started out this school year reviewing and learning about measuring and classifying angles using a protractor. We have played games, done math...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 27, 2016 | 2016-2017, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, language arts, Lemoyne Student teacher
In a series of three lessons the 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade students learned about four different parts of speech. First they learned the function of verbs in the English language and that every English sentence must contain at least one verb. Then we practiced enhancing...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 27, 2016 | 2016-2017, grades 6-8, Lemoyne Student teacher, math
In Math class the 7th graders have been developing their abilities to solve for a variable in a equation and have recently been introduced to solving inequalities. The amount of background knowledge and problem solving abilities students bring makes each class very...
