by newschoolsyr | Apr 10, 2012 | 2011-2012, Community events, Social Studies, whole school
Each child at The New School was given a replica of an old postcard of a Syracuse scene. Postcards showed parks, downtown scenes, and places of interest such as Oakwood Cemetery. Using VTS (Visual Thinking Strategies) children were asked to look at the picture...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 31, 2012 | 2011-2012, language arts, whole school
Students at The New School have been exploring Shakespeare, reading Bruce Coville’s adaptations of Romeo and Juliet, and of Hamlet, two of seven plays he has reworked for young readers. The Syracuse author of a variety of enticing books for children brought his...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 27, 2012 | 2011-2012, visual arts, whole school
Students get a chance to flex their creative sculpture muscles as they create with clay. Each student gets a chunk of clay to mold as they see fit while using their hands and various clay tools. Since we won’t be keeping each masterpiece, we take a...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 24, 2012 | 2011-2012, math, youngest students
Inch by inch we built our own measuring tapes and used them to measure our thumbs, ears, wrists, and waists. We were excited to find how much easier it is to use a measuring tape to measure around things than it is to use a ruler!
by newschoolsyr | Mar 23, 2012 | 2011-2012, affective education, language arts phonemic awareness, youngest students
New and Good is a tradition at The New School. It was started in the 1970’s by Bob Newman, when he was the director of the Syracuse Institute for Enabling Education (the precursor) to The New School. It has worked effectively during all these years to...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 21, 2012 | 2011-2012, affective education, Community events, visual arts, whole school
Our leprechaun trap tradition was started many years ago by Dottie Mueller. Ever since the children spend two weeks creating inventive traps (the leprechauns say ingenious!) in the hope that those pesky leprechauns will come visit our school. So far we...
