by newschoolsyr | Apr 9, 2015 | 2014-2015, grade 1, grade 2, language arts
Some of our younger students have been participating in their first book club. We have been reading several of the Fox books by Edward Marshall, including Fox On Wheels, Fox and His Friends, Fox On the Job, Fox Be Nimble, Fox On Stage,...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 10, 2014 | 2013-2014, grade 1, Kindergarten and 1st grade, science
Children in grades Kindergarten through Second Grade have been exploring ramps in science one afternoon a week. We started by discussing what a ramp was and what it might be used for. Our first experiments looked at the different surfaces on our ramps and...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 10, 2014 | 2013-2014, Community events, grade 1, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts, science, Social Studies
Our youngest eight students have been having a wonderful time exploring the time period of pioneers by using Laura Ingalls Wilder’s book Little House in the Big Woods. We started by reading a biography about Laura and then started reading her first...
by newschoolsyr | Feb 24, 2014 | 2013-2014, grade 1, grade 2, grades 3 - 6, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts phonemic awareness
To assist children learning how to read, we offer small group instruction that focuses on the six syllable types. Using Road to Reading, and Wilson Language, each week children receive instruction that meets them at their instructional level. Typically children meet...
by newschoolsyr | Feb 17, 2014 | 2013-2014, grade 1, grade 2, math
Students in grade 1 and 2, explored the number system using Terc’s Investigations: Coins, Coupons and Combinations. First they worked with combinations of 10, making their own Book of 10, which listed all the possible combinations of 10. To further practice this skill...
