by newschoolsyr | Dec 29, 2015 | 2015-2016, Community events, Grades 5 - 8, mystery guest, Social Studies
Daniel Van Sant, is a graduate student at Syracuse University, studying disability law. He came to The New School as our Mystery Guest. For an hour he engaged the older students, discussing and sharing information about the plight of individuals with disabilities and...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 29, 2015 | 2015-2016, Community events, Grades 5 - 8, mystery guest, Social Studies, Uncategorized
In December, Freida Jacques, an Onondaga Clan mother who lives on the Onondaga Nation visited The New School. Freida Jacques answered the many questions of our students and then shared their Thanksgiving address. After she left, our students reminisced about some of...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 2, 2015 | 2015-2016, grades 4 - 8, science
A small group of the oldest students have been participating in Take Apart, a science class connected to the Electromagnetism and Invention classes. Before the “taking apart” happened, the students drew predictions of what parts would be on the inside of their...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
The 3rd, 4th and 5th graders are taking part in Pixie class. Pixie is a philosophical reading program. We read the story of a girl named Pixie, very s-l-o-w-l-y. We stop very often to analyze Pixie and what she means when she says things like “but do I belong to...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 24, 2015 | 2015-2016
The younger students, K-4, are doing an author study of Cynthia Rylant. We have read picture books in which she gives humorous and touching insights into her early years, The Relatives Came and When I Was Young In the Mountains. We have discovered that Cynthia Rylant...
