by newschoolsyr | Nov 21, 2015 | 2015-2016, Kindergarten and 1st grade, youngest students
The youngest group of students are participating in a printing class. They are working their way through the alphabet learning how to form all the capital letters correctly. They have worked on the letters A-M so far and will continue to practice the rest of the...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 20, 2015 | 2015-2016, math
Math class for our 6th graders this fall has been about statistics. We started with gathering, graphing and interpreting data from our classmates about name length. We graphed our data on line plots and bar graphs. We even used a stem leaf plot. We’ve explored...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 10, 2015 | 2015-2016, language arts, math, middle school
This Fall, students in our oldest grades have been listening to a series of math books that discuss and explain all different types of math processes. Books we’ve read this fall include: Multiplying Menace, Sold!, Rabbits Rabbits Everywhere, and Zachary Zormer:...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 10, 2015 | 2015-2016, math
This year, Math Class for two of our oldest students started out with combining like terms, solving for variables and setting up and solving proportions. Students have practiced some of these skills using a computer program on MathBits.com called Geo Cashing where...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 8, 2015 | 2015-2016, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts phonemic awareness
Our youngest students spent the first 6 weeks of school playing many games where they worked on identifying the sounds of letters in our alphabet. After giving them all a letter/sound assessment in October (see above) we decided they were ready to start a class...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 8, 2015 | 2015-2016, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts, language arts phonemic awareness
Four of our youngest students started a class in late October where they are using pictures to help them identify sounds in the words. For the activity each child draws a picture out a bag, identifies the letter the word begins with, writes the capital and lower case...
