by newschoolsyr | Feb 20, 2015 | 2014-2015, Community events, grades 4 - 8, science, visual arts
Over the summer of 2014, teachers at The New School decided that the older students would take part in a year-long study of trees, where they would learn about tree identification, and how the study of a tree’s habit, its leaves, bark and fruit provide identification...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 14, 2014 | 2014-2015, Community events, mystery guest, science, whole school
The New School now has its own Mr. Wizard! Buzzy Dale (Chloe’s father) is sharing his love of teaching science and knowledge as we explore electricity and magnetism. His first demonstration had the children enraptured as he demonstrated how electricity flows...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 8, 2014 | Community events, language arts, whole school
Phil Brill, Valor’s Grandpa and author of a children’s book, The Red Bottle, was in town visiting his family. He offered to come to school and share his real life story that inspired him to write The Red Bottle. He shared the lovely story of his...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 11, 2014 | 2014-2015, Community events, language arts, visual arts, whole school music
Our storytelling unit has begun! The gifted Vanessa Johnson kicked it off as our fifth mystery guest. She started her presentation with a clever interaction between herself and three future generations, played by our own Glady, Frannie and Lola! Artfully she...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 1, 2014 | 2014-2015, Community events, mystery guest, science, whole school
On Thursday, October 30, Sam Van Aken was our third mystery guest of the year. Sam created, using grafting, a tree that can bear 40 different kinds of stone fruits. The children asked their yes/no questions and quickly determined Sam had come to share something about...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 29, 2014 | 2014-2015, Community events, field trips, grades 4 - 8, visual arts, whole school
On Thursday, October 16, 2014, nineteen of our oldest students visited Syracuse University’s campus to view Margaret Bourke White’s exhibit of 180 vintage photographs taken in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Germany, England and Italy in the 1930s and 40s. Prior to...
