by newschoolsyr | Dec 29, 2015 | 2015-2016, Community events, Grades 5 - 8, mystery guest, Social Studies, Uncategorized
In December, Freida Jacques, an Onondaga Clan mother who lives on the Onondaga Nation visited The New School. Freida Jacques answered the many questions of our students and then shared their Thanksgiving address. After she left, our students reminisced about some of...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 2, 2015 | 2015-2016, grades 4 - 8, science
A small group of the oldest students have been participating in Take Apart, a science class connected to the Electromagnetism and Invention classes. Before the “taking apart” happened, the students drew predictions of what parts would be on the inside of their...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 24, 2015 | 2015-2016
The younger students, K-4, are doing an author study of Cynthia Rylant. We have read picture books in which she gives humorous and touching insights into her early years, The Relatives Came and When I Was Young In the Mountains. We have discovered that Cynthia Rylant...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 24, 2015 | 2015-2016, Kindergarten and 1st grade
Folktales Retold is a class in which the kindergarten and first grade students meet two times a week during Silent Reading time to listen to picture books of folktales. We have read several versions of Little Red Riding Hood. Some were retellings of the traditional...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 23, 2015 | 2015-2016, grade 2, math
A small group of 2nd graders has been working on adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers with regrouping. We started by reviewing what a two-digit number is and how important the “place” is for the digit. How different a 24 and a 42 can be even though they have the...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 21, 2015 | 2015-2016, grade 1, grade 2
Evan, Glady, Aurelia, Etienne, Rowyn, Simon and Valor are participating in Sentence Stretch, a writing class. They take turn choosing topics to write about, like Halloween, solid shapes and winter. They write at least three sentences each. The students write each...
