by newschoolsyr | Mar 7, 2011 | Grades 5 - 8, language arts
Working with Jeff Simmons, a parent of one of our students who teaches creative writing at Syracuse University, the older students were given two writing prompts which launched them into many weeks of writing fiction.”Not all stories have good characters, but...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 7, 2011 | grades 4 - 8, language arts, Social Studies
Inspired by Kenneth Koch’s Rose, where did you get that red? book the older students spent a month studying the poems of Wallace Stevens: Thirteen Ways to Look at a Blackbird, John Ashbery: Into the Dusk-Charged Air, and Arthur Rimbaud: Voyelles....
by newschoolsyr | Mar 7, 2011 | Social Studies 3rd grade students
Third grade students created a China poster describing four aspects of Chinese culture. They were able to select their own topics from a list that included the Silk Road, Chinese religions, Architecture/Homes, Clothing, Silk, Dynasties, Food/agriculture, Art/Music,...
by newschoolsyr | Feb 13, 2011 | math, youngest students
1st graders were given a magnifying glass and asked to compare and contrast dimes, nickels, pennies and quarters. They played games such as “Race to a Quarter” and “The Matching Game” which gave them practice trading coins (5 pennies for 1 nickel, 2 nickels for 1 dime...
by newschoolsyr | Feb 6, 2011 | grades 4 - 8, science
The older students spent four weeks studying The Periodic Table and creating a Wanted Poster for an element of their choice. We introduced the project by listening to Tom Lehrer singing “Elements,” his well known song where he rattles off all the elements...
