by newschoolsyr | Mar 20, 2023 | 2022-2023, visual arts, whole school
This project started in February with a slide show of Pablo Picasso’s cubist portraits. As always the children had amazing observations about color, geometric shapes and unusual perspectives. Each student then created his/her own cubist portrait, which was...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 20, 2023 | 2022-2023, grades 6-8, language arts, science
In January 2023 we started an Invention unit, inspired in part by the many inventions we learned about during our study of the Industrial Revolution. We started this unit by watching a few videos. Bill Nye always offers interesting and humorous videos on science...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 20, 2023 | 2022-2023
Inspired by the teaching of Kenneth Koch, and his brilliant books “Rose, Where did you get that Red” and “Wishes, Lies and Dreams,” our oldest students explored their poetic talents, some for the very first time. Each class began with a...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 20, 2023 | language arts, visual arts, whole school
Doug Dubois, father of Cyrus, introduced us to the fascinating work of MacArthur Fellow, Wendy Ewald who began fostering literacy via photography and storytelling with children in the 1970s. Together we decided to create an alphabet book, randomly assigning each child...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 20, 2023 | 2022-2023, grades 6-8, language arts, Social Studies
As a culminating activity for our year long study of the Industrial Revolution, all the students were asked to develop an essay evaluating its positive and negative effects. Many historical documents, photos, journal entries, cartoons, were studied and discussed. The...
