by newschoolsyr | Nov 4, 2017 | 2017 - 2018, Grades 5 - 8, mystery guest, Social Studies, whole school
Each year our social studies curriculum builds on what we have studied in the past. In September the oldest children revisited the Declaration of Independence this time focusing on the grievances articulated by the frustrated colonists. The list of grievances...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 4, 2017 | 2017 - 2018, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, language arts
Lucy Calkins inspired a poetry unit for our students in grades 1-3. Each week of her unit inspires children to consider a new “ingredient” or strategy. The unit began with experimenting with looking at ordinary things in a new way. Subsequent classes explored looking...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 4, 2017 | 2017 - 2018, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, language arts
A small group of students read Twister on Tuesday, a Magic Tree House book about twisters. The book club focused reading skills such as comprehension, compare and contrast, summarizing, predictions, moods of pictures and text, and relating character traits to...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 27, 2017 | 2017 - 2018, grade 3, grade 4, math
This math class focused of recognizing specific polygons. We started out learning that the number of sides and vertices a polygon has is what determines the polygon’s name. We also went over what congruent and symmetrical were and examples were shown as visual...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 23, 2017 | 2017 - 2018, grades 7-8, language arts, visual arts, writing workshop
The eldest students were given an assignment that involved self-selecting three poets. After browsing through collections of poetry by Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and more, they had to pick one...
