by newschoolsyr | Nov 3, 2013 | 2013-2014, grades 3 - 6, language arts
This fall, students in 3rd through 6thgrades were introduced to letter writing by our student teacher, Johnna. Students began by exploring the elements of a friendly letter; including the heading, greeting, body, closing, and signature. Each student was asked to...
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 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...
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...
