by newschoolsyr | May 28, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, grade 3, grade 4, science, Uncategorized
In our science class with students in grades 3 and 4, we studied the water cycle. This unit focuses on how water exists in our world and how it transforms from phase to phase.We explored how water exists in nature as a solid, a liquid and a gas. In this unit we have...
by newschoolsyr | May 28, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, grade 1, Kindergarten, math
In Math class, our youngest students have been working on developing and reading pictographs and bar graphs. We made several graphs from scratch and analyzed existing graphs. This helps the students to identify things like the most, the least and things that have the...
by newschoolsyr | May 28, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, grade 2, grade 3, language arts
In our Book Club class we read and discussed the book “The Littles” by John Peterson. Our focus during this Book Club was on reading comprehension. The students in class were reading but were having difficulty recalling what they had read. We worked on strategies to...
by newschoolsyr | May 28, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, grades 3 - 6, Social Studies
Recently in biography class students have been researching different figures from Colonial Times. Each of the students in class was assigned a different person and wrote a narrative paragraph from that person’s perspective. Students worked on perspective...
by newschoolsyr | May 26, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, grade 1, math
For most of the second part of this school year, the youngest children have been working on two digit place value. We started off counting up from the bottom of our board and looked at the numbers from 0-9. Of course they were all familiar with those numbers. Then, we...
