by newschoolsyr | Nov 3, 2013 | 2013-2014, affective education, investigations, visual arts, whole school
Johnna, our student teacher, enjoyed sharing her interest in arts and crafts activities during investigations. She choose to teach the students how to make friendship bracelets. Each student was given the chance to make a friendship bracelet to...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 3, 2013 | 2013-2014, grade 2, grade 3, math
This fall the younger group of students in 2nd and 3rd grades began a data class with Johnna our student teacher. Throughout this class the students demonstrated the ability to collect numerical data, represent class data in a variety of ways and develop...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 21, 2013 | 2012-2013, Social Studies, whole school
Last year at The New School, as part of our social studies unit on Immigration, each student interviewed one of their ancestors who had immigrated to America. The students took on that role and were interviewed telling their story. Click on the link below to watch the...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 20, 2013 | 2013-2014, grade 2, math
We value giving children the opportunity to problem solve and think critically. A group of 2ndgraders met once a week to tackle problems such as: “How many feet would there be in our room if all the people living in your houses came to our class at the same...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 20, 2013 | 2013-2014, language arts grades 4 - 8
Inspired by Kenneth Koch’s book, Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? the older students spent 6 weeks studying the poems of Wallace Stevens’ Thirteen Ways to Look at a Blackbird; John Ashbery’s Into the Dusk-Charged Air: Arthur Rimbaud’s Voyelles; William...
