by newschoolsyr | Mar 15, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, grade 2, Kindergarten, science, science grades K-2, Uncategorized, youngest students
This winter, students in Kindergarten through Second Grade participated in a class on growing cycles. We started this class out by talking about our cycles in our own lives. We discussed the months of the year and did an activity where we did all the cycles in...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 15, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, Social Studies
In our westward expansion class, we moved from learning about Americans traveling west to find a new life and settle in uncharted (to them) territory, to who was already living in these western lands. We started by reading aloud and discussing such books as The...
by newschoolsyr | Feb 25, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, alumni
“Attending the New School helped foster a love of learning that has stuck with me throughout my academic and professional career. It was a truly unique learning experience that encouraged me to engage deeply with my academic work (especially my love of reading),...
by newschoolsyr | Feb 13, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, Kindergarten, science, Social Studies, visual arts
To finish up our Animal Habitat unit each child created a collage of an animal in its habitat. First they had to decide where the horizon line was going to be. Then what time of day they wanted to depict. Some picked night, some sunset, or mid-day. After finishing the...
by newschoolsyr | Jan 19, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, grades 4 - 6, language arts, writing workshop
Many a white page has been known to cause “writer’s block.” At The New School we recently tried something new. During Read Aloud we are reading “Sweep: The story of a girl and her monster” to the older children. Early in the book Nan, the...
by newschoolsyr | Jan 19, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, alumni
I believe I am the oldest alum of the New School. I attended the New School its very first year and was the oldest of the inaugural class. Just a couple weeks ago, when visiting my family in Syracuse, I passed the original building and my sister (also an alum) and I...
