by newschoolsyr | Apr 6, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, science
This spring, students in grades 2-4 participated in a unit on the layers of the Earth. We read The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth, by Joanna & Bruce Cole to gather baseline information about layers within the Earth. We began this unit by creating clay model...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 6, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, Kindergarten, language arts, language arts phonemic awareness
Once a week during journal time, the youngest students are part of a class called Silly Sentences. Here they play with puzzle pieces to make sentences that are bound to make them laugh. After making two or three sentences, the children copy and illustrate their...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 6, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, Kindergarten, math
Over the last few months the Kindergarten students explored counting, coins (pennies, nickels and dimes), measurement using standard units, and adding and subtracting using games and their workbooks. Students compared lengths of object using a ruler. They used a...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 1, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, language arts grades K-2, youngest students
Once a week our youngest students gather together for their own read-aloud during the school-wide reading time. Some of them are just beginning to learn to read. Others have developed some reading skills and are just beginning to read independently. They all enjoy...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 1, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, investigations, Social Studies
Cooking is a favorite Investigations activity. Students work together to make a food that they share with the whole school. In the process, they see practical applications for math and science. In their read-aloud group, the younger students listened to some of the...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 1, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, grade 2, grade 3, science
We began our study of the water cycle by identifying where we can find water throughout the earth. Did you know that about 97% of the earth’s water is salt water? And that most of the fresh water is frozen in glaciers and the polar ice caps? As we continued...
