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Our children, our students, live in a world that has developed all kinds of media and ways to transmit information, disinformation, ideas, and images. They hear the media, adults, other peers talking about events and opinions as they move through their days. Some of...
by newschoolsyr | Aug 13, 2015 | 2013-2014, 2014-2015, Community events, Grades 5 - 8, mystery guest, Social Studies
Sriharsh Gowtham, a young activist, visited the New School at the end of the year. He came to share his political experiences in New Hampshire where he worked hard to change laws in regards to political campaign donations. Harsha shared information about how much it...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 8, 2014 | 2013-2014, grade 2, grade 3, math
Students in the middle grades have been working on division and multiplication using our TERC series of Investigations books. We’ve explored the number chart with skip counting, played games like Tricky Triangles, written riddles for our classmates to...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 6, 2014 | 2013-2014, After School, whole school
APRILWe studied branches cut from a great variety of shrubs and trees, making drawings and labeling them as we thought about how they were different and how they were the same.In the following days we created nests, weaving the beautiful curly willow, red osier...
by newschoolsyr | May 11, 2014 | 2013-2014, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts
Inspired by Lucy Calkins’ Poetry: Powerful Thoughts in Tiny Packages, the youngest children explored writing poetry. The unit starts with a poetry museum, which asks children to write about objects that have been collected. As each object is observed children are...
by newschoolsyr | May 4, 2014 | 2013-2014, Social Studies, visual arts, whole school
Socrates was found innocent! At his trial at The New School, our children rewrote history. The re-enactment of the trial of Socrates marked the culmination of three months studying Ancient Greece by the entire school. To set the stage, children created a set showing...
