by newschoolsyr | May 24, 2024 | affective education, grades 3 - 6
Pixie is a language arts and reasoning program that focuses on “sharpening” the thinking skills of children. It does this by giving them scenarios and asking them how they would react in that situation, or what does this truly mean. We read Pixie during snack once a...
by newschoolsyr | May 24, 2024 | grades 3 - 6, science, science grade 2
We began our layers of the Earth class by asking ourselves, “How many layers of the Earth are there?”. That is when everyone learned that there are four layers of, and that it is impossible to dig all the way down to the center of the Earth. We did many hands-on...
by newschoolsyr | May 24, 2024 | affective education, Community, language arts, language arts grades 4 - 8
As banning books became much more common throughout the country we began a discussion with older students based on reading aloud a book called The Day the Book Was Arrested by Nat Hentoff. In the book, a parent objected to the reading of Huckleberry Finn...
by newschoolsyr | May 24, 2024 | Kindergarten and 1st grade, math, youngest students
Learning to read word problems for young children has many aspects. We began with the four children by having them recognize possible, impossible or incorrect number sentences such as: ? + 5 = 7, 7= 5+?, or 5+3 = 7 or 7+2=5. This was often tricky and took...
by newschoolsyr | May 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
The K-2s and I read the book, A Quiltmaker’s Gift, outside of the art room during their reading times. This book was about a woman who made quilts for the poor and needy. She taught a greedy king how to care for others and give back. The students had an...
