by newschoolsyr | Apr 11, 2017 | language arts, visual arts
Visual Thinking Strategies provides for open-ended discussions of visual art, increasing students’ critical thinking, language, and literacy skills along the way. We had two groups using VTS this year, one Kindergarten-1st grade students and the other 2nd-4th...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 11, 2017 | science
How do airplanes fly? That is a question that our younger students (K-1) explored during Investigations by making paper airplanes and testing them. First they made the classic Dart. They tested it to see how far, how high, and how straight it could fly. Then they made...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 18, 2017 | 2016-2017, gross/fine motor, Kindergarten, language arts, language arts phonemic awareness
At the start of the school year, children in kindergarten worked on writing upper case letters of the alphabet. We have now moved on to lower case letters! During each class, we use sign language, the sound of the letter and printing pages to practice on two...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 18, 2017 | 2016-2017, language arts, whole school
Listening to books read out loud is a favorite part of our day. At the end of each day children free draw in their sketch books as they listen to great stories by great authors. This year the youngest children have listened to: Dan the Pawn, Trumpet of the Swan by...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 18, 2017 | 2016-2017, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts
Students in kindergarten and first grade have been enjoying the silly antics of Amelia Bedelia all year. During class, we read a book, discuss the “mistakes” that Amelia makes about the English language and then draw about some of them. Each child is...
