by newschoolsyr | Dec 8, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, Community, Community events, grade 2, Kindergarten and 1st grade, visual arts, youngest students
Our younger students attended a performance on December 4, of The Loneliest Snowflake at Open Hand Theater. The play was co-written by one of our own students, Amelia. The children loved getting a back stage view of the theater and the craft activity that followed the...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 8, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, Community, mystery guest
Clifford Ryan, who spearheads OG’s Against Gun Violence, was our most recent Mystery Guest for Making the World a Better Place. His mission is “to take back our community to stop the bloodshed and tears of losing our children to violence & prison.”...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 2, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, Community, field trips, grades 4 - 8, middle school, Social Studies
Through our Making the World a Better Place unit, students in grades 4 – 8 got to participate in a morning of service for the organization: We Rise Above the Streets. At the organization’s office, students helped pack bags of personal hygiene items that...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 2, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, Community, field trips, grades 4 - 8, middle school, Social Studies
This fall students in grades 4-8 got a chance to participate in a WCNY program called Enterprise America. Students got to run a simulated city for a day. Each student was assigned a job and given tasks on how to complete that job. Students also had to manage their...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 25, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, Community, Community events, field trips, mystery guest, Social Studies, whole school
Children need to learn early that individuals can make a difference and shape society with their ideas and actions. All year we have been learning about ways individuals have succeeded in this endeavor. Children have learned that change can be immediate but it can...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 25, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, Community, Community events, field trips, visual arts, whole school
Six students expressed an interested in going to view SU’s Rodin: The Human Experience show. The objective of this field trip was to draw the sculptures on display.
