by newschoolsyr | Mar 11, 2022 | 2021-2022, Grades 5 - 8, Social Studies
Over the winter five of our oldest students looked at American History and specifically the Declaration of Independence and the forming of the Constitution. After Visual Thinking Strategies to interpret the Join or Die cartoon, students read sections of the...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 29, 2021 | 2021-2022, language arts
Students in our middle group of students this fall, have been reading a biography by Margaret Davidson titled Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind. At the same time we’ve slowly been reading the picture book Six Dots: The Story of Young Louis...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 29, 2021 | 2021-2022, Cortland Student Teacher, Kindergarten, language arts
In mid November Kindergarteners moved on from constructing words with objects, for example a Comb, Apple and a Turtle means CAT to making them with their sound boards. A sound board allows the students to have a group of consonants and one vowel (a) to make words....
by newschoolsyr | Dec 29, 2021 | 2021-2022, Cortland Student Teacher, language arts
In late October, early November we began reading a book called Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. This is a book that essentially asks the question if you had the choice to live forever would you do it? This is how the book is introduced to the students, as they had...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 29, 2021 | 2021-2022, Cortland Student Teacher, Social Studies
In December the 2nd-4th graders were able to begin a Unit Plan on the 13 Colonies. The students were very excited to be learning about the United States history, but first it had to be explained to the students that the United States started off as the 13 Colonies....
by newschoolsyr | Dec 28, 2021 | 2021-2022, Cortland Student Teacher, math, Uncategorized
In the middle of November a few students began a Geometry Unit. The goal of this unit was for students to be able to identify a variety of shapes and be able to count their sides and vertices. We primarily worked with shapes with 3-6 sides. All students excelled in...
