by newschoolsyr | Jun 24, 2012 | 2011-2012, affective education, whole school
On the last day of school each child came home with two important things. A memory box from the teachers, celebrating something important about the past year, and a letter that articulates the depth of each child’s achievement. Often children will focus on the...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 20, 2012 | 2011-2012, affective education, language arts, visual arts, whole school
Every year children randomly are assigned another student to make a gift for. When they present their gifts they share an appreciation which explains why they made the gift. In the picture above a child is being presented with a handmade joke book. Other gifts...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 23, 2012 | 2011-2012, affective education, language arts phonemic awareness, youngest students
New and Good is a tradition at The New School. It was started in the 1970’s by Bob Newman, when he was the director of the Syracuse Institute for Enabling Education (the precursor) to The New School. It has worked effectively during all these years to...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 21, 2012 | 2011-2012, affective education, Community events, visual arts, whole school
Our leprechaun trap tradition was started many years ago by Dottie Mueller. Ever since the children spend two weeks creating inventive traps (the leprechauns say ingenious!) in the hope that those pesky leprechauns will come visit our school. So far we...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 10, 2011 | affective education, field trips, science, whole school
On October 6 the children at The New School set out to enjoy an overnight camping trip at Highland Forest. The weather was spectacular – blue skies, temperatures in the 70’s and yet there was a chill in the air during the night. The wood stoves in the cabins...
by newschoolsyr | Sep 17, 2011 | affective education, whole school
Gym time is an active time. We play lots of different games and split into all different types of groups. On this day, we had multi-age groups. One group played a tag game while the second group enjoyed playing with the parachute. We encourage...
