by newschoolsyr | Oct 20, 2013 | 2013-2014, field trips, grades 4 - 8, Social Studies
For the oldest students (grades 4 and above), our study of “Mesopotamia” – the land between two rivers – began with a discussion of “How do we know what we know?” How can we possibly know about a civilization that existed over 5,000 years ago? The children...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 12, 2013 | 2013-2014, grades 4 - 8, science
To start the year, the oldest students were challenged to learn as much as they could about bugscopters – a t-shaped, paper, helicopter-like creation of Larry Schafer, formerly professor of Science Teaching at SU. After exploring the characteristics of the...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 12, 2013 | 2013-2014, grade 3, language arts, language arts grades K-2, visual arts
This mini unit explored the connections between visual art and language arts, and how both are used to creatively tell stories and express emotions. After listening to the picture book, Go Away Big Green Monster by Ed Emberley children were introduced to adjectives as...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 9, 2013 | 2013-2014, grades 4 - 8, language arts, Social Studies
The oldest students listened to a book at read aloud this fall called Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay. In this book, it is the year 4022 and all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of junk mail from a catastrophe that...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 9, 2013 | 2013-2014, science K-1
In science class, students in Kindergarten and First Grade have been exploring seeds. We started our unit by reading a book called A Fruit is a Suitcase for a Seed by Jean Richards. We then had fun predicting the number of seeds (one, a few or a...
