by newschoolsyr | Jan 21, 2020 | 2019 - 2020, affective education, language arts, math, whole school
Why do we play games? What do they accomplish for teaching and learning? We have games for math, language arts, social studies, science and strategy. We have games for inside and outside. We have cooperative and competitive games. We have games we buy and we have...
by newschoolsyr | Aug 5, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, affective education, gross/fine motor, investigations, whole school
A part of every afternoon at The New School is a time called Investigations. During this hour children can choose between several activities: art studio, construction materials, strategy games, or work on individually designed projects. For several years we have...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 2, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, affective education, Community, gross/fine motor, Uncategorized, visual arts, whole school
Twice a year, for the past 20+ years, teachers have taken students camping to Highland Forest. These two days in the fall and spring are so important to building community. There is something magical that happens to groups of children when you provide them with the...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 8, 2015 | 2015-2016, affective education, whole school
Every year, and more than once a year, we facilitate discussions at school to help children understand the power of the words they use. Last week we asked children to consider the following quote. This discussion involved the entire school and had children in all...
by newschoolsyr | Aug 13, 2015 | 2014-2015, affective education, investigations, visual arts, whole school
We end the school year with many lovely traditions. Tradition #1. Children draw names out of a hat and secretly make a gift for a fellow student. Then using materials at school, the children spend many hours creating just the right gift after thinking about what makes...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 14, 2014 | 2014-2015, affective education, mystery guest
Megan Wagner-Flynn visited The New School, not as Evan’s sister, but as a Mystery Guest! The students guessed that she was here to share about her experience as a former student at The New School and they were right. Megan brought 3 of her end of year gifts she...
