by newschoolsyr | Jun 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Students in grades 5-8 participated in a Digital Literacy class this year. Just as students have to learn how to be citizens of our world, country, community, school, and family, this class taught students how to be responsible and safe citizens of the digital world....
by newschoolsyr | Jun 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Students in grades 4-7 participated in Pixie Class. Pixie is a philosophical curriculum designed to encourage students to think critically about social topics. This year, as we read about Pixie, an elementary school student, interacting with her peers, teachers,...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 16, 2025 | language arts
Some of our students have participated in a printing class this year. We spent the first part of the year carefully practicing the proper formation of each letter, both upper and lower case. Over the last couple of months, we have been focused on transitioning our...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 16, 2025 | language arts
A group of our younger students have been part of a class where we first read the book, Wacky Wednesday by Theo LeSieg, and illustrated by George Booth. Then every week they meet to write sentences in their packets, describing the wacky things going on in each...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 16, 2025 | grade 1, grade 2, language arts, writing workshop
Small Moments is a personal narrative writing unit from Lucy Calkins. Students were asked to think of a small moment in their life they could stretch into a detailed and structured story. These young writers began with brainstorming before writing a draft, revising,...
