by newschoolsyr | Oct 26, 2011 | grades 4 - 8, math
For six weeks in September and October students in grades 4 to 7 were part of a class learning about probability. We started the unit by having a mystery bag in which there were ten cubes. Students had to pull out one cube at a time and then put the cube back; they...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 26, 2011 | grades 4 - 8, language arts phonemic awareness
Many of the older students have been reading the book Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. Each time the book club met the students were given a set of questions on a bookmark that went with the next section of reading. Students were challenged to look beyond the text...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 26, 2011 | grades 4 - 8, language arts
The fourth through eighth graders have been working on a writing piece based off the novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. In the story the main character is faced with a challenge to drink from a spring that could make her live forever. Students were asked to...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 25, 2011 | math, science, Social Studies grades K-2
K +1st grade students explored how many seeds are inside a pumpkin. We started out by reading part of the book How Many Seeds are in a Pumpkin by Margaret McNamara. After we read about how the class in the book got messy and goopy emptying out...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 23, 2011 | grades 4 - 8, math
Students in the intermediate grades explored the many ways you can display data. The first information or data we considered was a list of our birthdays. How could we display this information so it would be easier to read and compare? Bar Graphs were the answer. Our...
