by newschoolsyr | May 25, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, language arts, middle school, Social Studies, writing workshop
Three of our middle school students participated in a four-session workshop designed to enhance the skills of developing writers. In preparation, the students read “War Horse” by Michael Morpurgo — a story of World War I told through the eyes of a horse....
by newschoolsyr | May 21, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, grade 3, grades 4 - 6, science, visual arts
This spring, the students in grades 3-6 engaged in an exploratory study of honeybees that touched on their physiology, role in the natural environment, and current threats affecting their population today. We read from Gail Gibbon’s The Honey Makersto acquire some...
by newschoolsyr | May 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
This spring, the students in grades 3-4 participated in a book club for Children of the Longhouse, by Joseph Bruchac. The focus of this book club was for students to practice making three different kinds of textual connections: text-to-self, text-to-text and...
by newschoolsyr | May 11, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, mystery guest, Social Studies
History is about real people and the places they lived. It is about their stories. Too often in the study of history, our education misses this facet. Last week our older students were part of an extraordinary discussion. One of our students told us her grandfather...
by newschoolsyr | May 10, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, grades 6-8, language arts, Social Studies, visual arts
The causes and effects of the Great Depression were studied through the eyes of artists Dorothea Lange, John Steinbeck, Woody Guthrie, a political cartoonist of the era and Langston Hughes. Children created a one-page written and visual response based on one of...
