by newschoolsyr | Mar 10, 2013 | 2012-2013, visual arts, whole school
After we learned about the aboriginal art of Australia we traveled north to the continent of Asia where we started learning about Chinese brush painting. We looked at slides and discovered how the Chinese “like to draw nature” and use “a lot of white...
by newschoolsyr | Feb 14, 2013 | 2012-2013, language arts, language arts grades K-2, language arts phonemic awareness, visual arts, youngest students
Once a week the youngest students listen to a book on tape. As they listen they copy the title of the book and start drawing a favorite scene in the book. More recently children have been asked to write one or two sentences. Some of the titles they have listened to...
by newschoolsyr | Feb 14, 2013 | 2012-2013, Grades 5 - 8, math
Students in grades 5 and 6 were part of a Decimal class based on the teaching of Marilyn Burns. To ensure students understood the relationship between decimals and fractions students used tens blocks to represent wholes, tenths, hundredths and finally thousandths....
by newschoolsyr | Feb 14, 2013 | language arts, whole school
Every day we end with a relaxing twenty minute Read Aloud. Our groupings change according to the content of the book. This fall we split into two groups. The older children (in grades 3 – 8) listened to J. R. Tolkein’s The Hobbit on the upstairs rug. This...
by newschoolsyr | Feb 10, 2013 | 2012-2013, middle school, science
For the first part of the year, the oldest students were part of a unit where they explored the scientific approach to problem solving and experimental design. Throughout the unit it was stressed that there are many different problem solving models. First students...
