by newschoolsyr | Nov 24, 2015 | 2015-2016, Kindergarten and 1st grade
Folktales Retold is a class in which the kindergarten and first grade students meet two times a week during Silent Reading time to listen to picture books of folktales. We have read several versions of Little Red Riding Hood. Some were retellings of the traditional...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 23, 2015 | 2015-2016, grade 2, math
A small group of 2nd graders has been working on adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers with regrouping. We started by reviewing what a two-digit number is and how important the “place” is for the digit. How different a 24 and a 42 can be even though they have the...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 21, 2015 | 2015-2016, grade 1, grade 2
Evan, Glady, Aurelia, Etienne, Rowyn, Simon and Valor are participating in Sentence Stretch, a writing class. They take turn choosing topics to write about, like Halloween, solid shapes and winter. They write at least three sentences each. The students write each...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 21, 2015 | 2015-2016, Kindergarten and 1st grade, youngest students
The youngest group of students are participating in a printing class. They are working their way through the alphabet learning how to form all the capital letters correctly. They have worked on the letters A-M so far and will continue to practice the rest of the...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
Students in the younger and middle groups have been listening to and analyzing the books Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Jack and the Beanstalk. We started out reading a certain version of each book and stopping every few pages to discuss what was happening. We...
