by newschoolsyr | Apr 9, 2015 | 2014-2015, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, language arts, language arts phonemic awareness
Students in dictation class have been focusing on reading and spelling words that follow the vowel-consonant-e pattern and comparing them with words that follow the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Students sort, compare, read, and write words and...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 9, 2015 | 2014-2015, grade 1, grade 2, language arts
Some of our younger students have been participating in their first book club. We have been reading several of the Fox books by Edward Marshall, including Fox On Wheels, Fox and His Friends, Fox On the Job, Fox Be Nimble, Fox On Stage,...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 9, 2015 | 2014-2015, Grades 5 - 8, math
Our two 7th graders and one 5th grader have taken a journey into pre-algebra this year. This class has been called Variables all year, but we have explored so much more than just variables. One thing that is constant is that there is...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 4, 2015 | 2014-2015, grades 4 - 8, Social Studies
In January the oldest students started a “Government” unit. For three-months we have studied the needs and rights of individuals, the rights of a community and different forms of government in existence today. Children were first asked to bring in a newspaper article...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 2, 2015 | 2014-2015, grade 2, Kindergarten and 1st grade, Social Studies
Students in grades K-2 started a social students unit this fall on explorers. Students were first asked to explain the difference between an Explorer and Exploring and came up with statements such as: Explore means to look for things and Explorer...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 28, 2015 | 2014-2015, grade 3, grade 4, math
A group of seven 3rd and 4th graders have been learning all about multiplication and division this winter. With multiplication, they started with cluster problems which break large problems such as 358×27 into small clusters of easily known...
