by newschoolsyr | Oct 13, 2014 | 2014-2015, grade 2, Kindergarten and 1st grade, science
The youngest group of students has been learning about the layers of the earth. We started off our unit by reading parts of Gail Gibbon’s bookPlanet Earth/Inside Out and How to Dig a Hole to the Otherside of the World by Faith McNulty. ...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 12, 2014 | 2014-2015, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts
Working once a week with our youngest children, we have studied and learned how to form the capital letters A through E. While this sounds like a simple task, there are many things to consider. First of all where to start the letter? This is hard for some youngsters...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 6, 2014 | 2014-2015, grade 3, grade 4, Social Studies
We started our unit by studying physical maps of the United States. We also looked at and discussed maps that show climate, and precipitation. Then we studied the biomes of North America and compared their boundaries to the physical...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 5, 2014 | 2014-2015, affective education, Community events, field trips, gross/fine motor, language arts, science, whole school
In many schools children are taken on camping field trips to celebrate the end of the year, as a reward you might say. At the New School we visit Highland Forest twice a year. The first time is scheduled near the start of school, and the second trip is within weeks of...
by newschoolsyr | Sep 25, 2014 | 2014-2015, Community events, field trips, language arts, science grade 2, visual arts
The Westcott Cultural Fair is always a festive way to begin our school year. This year, during Investigations, the children, expressing their love for books, created signs to carry . The titles of books they chose was wonderfully varied: Kensuke’s Kingdom,...
