by newschoolsyr | Mar 11, 2022 | 2021-2022, grade 3, grade 4, science
This fascinating investigation was created by Larry Schafer, the amazing science educator at Syracuse University. It starts with a box wrapped up as a gift. In the box is a letter from Bugso, challenging the class to become scientists and discover as much as they can...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 11, 2022 | 2021-2022, Grades 5 - 8, Social Studies
Over the winter five of our oldest students looked at American History and specifically the Declaration of Independence and the forming of the Constitution. After Visual Thinking Strategies to interpret the Join or Die cartoon, students read sections of the...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 29, 2021 | 2021-2022, language arts
Students in our middle group of students this fall, have been reading a biography by Margaret Davidson titled Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind. At the same time we’ve slowly been reading the picture book Six Dots: The Story of Young Louis...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 29, 2021 | 2021-2022, Cortland Student Teacher, Kindergarten, language arts
In mid November Kindergarteners moved on from constructing words with objects, for example a Comb, Apple and a Turtle means CAT to making them with their sound boards. A sound board allows the students to have a group of consonants and one vowel (a) to make words....
by newschoolsyr | Dec 29, 2021 | 2021-2022, Cortland Student Teacher, language arts
In late October, early November we began reading a book called Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. This is a book that essentially asks the question if you had the choice to live forever would you do it? This is how the book is introduced to the students, as they had...
