by newschoolsyr | Dec 29, 2021 | 2021-2022, Cortland Student Teacher, Social Studies
In December the 2nd-4th graders were able to begin a Unit Plan on the 13 Colonies. The students were very excited to be learning about the United States history, but first it had to be explained to the students that the United States started off as the 13 Colonies....
by newschoolsyr | Dec 28, 2021 | 2021-2022, Cortland Student Teacher, math, Uncategorized
In the middle of November a few students began a Geometry Unit. The goal of this unit was for students to be able to identify a variety of shapes and be able to count their sides and vertices. We primarily worked with shapes with 3-6 sides. All students excelled in...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 28, 2021 | 2021-2022, Cortland Student Teacher, grade 5, science, Uncategorized
Over the past few months the students have been learning about electricity. This is a very exciting topic for the students because electricity means a lot of activities and experiments! We learned how to light up a lightbulb only using a battery, lightbulb and two...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 26, 2021 | 2021-2022, grade 7, science
Density and Viscosity This fall, the three seventh graders have been exploring the similarities and differences between density and viscosity. We started by defining the terms: demonstrate, model, interpret, density, viscosity and environment and then watched a video...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 26, 2021 | 2021-2022, Grades 3 - 5, Social Studies
To start off our unit on native tribes in the US, we studied maps and discussed how the original inhabitants of North and South America came to the continents over the ice covered Bering Strait. We looked at the tribes in the 5 regions, (north east, south east, north...