by newschoolsyr | Nov 6, 2015 | 2015-2016, Community events, field trips, grade 1, grade 2, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts, science, science grades K-2, visual arts
The eleven youngest students started the year learning about the Rain Forest. New concepts and vocabulary were introduced as they listened to and discussed the content of many books on the subject. If I Ran the Rain Forest by Bonnie Worth and Rain, Rain, Rain Forest...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 9, 2015 | 2014-2015, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, language arts, language arts phonemic awareness
Students in dictation class have been focusing on reading and spelling words that follow the vowel-consonant-e pattern and comparing them with words that follow the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Students sort, compare, read, and write words and...
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 2, 2015 | 2014-2015, grade 2, Kindergarten and 1st grade, Social Studies
Students in grades K-2 started a social students unit this fall on explorers. Students were first asked to explain the difference between an Explorer and Exploring and came up with statements such as: Explore means to look for things and Explorer...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 13, 2014 | 2014-2015, grade 2, Kindergarten and 1st grade, science
The youngest group of students has been learning about the layers of the earth. We started off our unit by reading parts of Gail Gibbon’s bookPlanet Earth/Inside Out and How to Dig a Hole to the Otherside of the World by Faith McNulty. ...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 8, 2014 | 2013-2014, grade 2, grade 3, math
Students in the middle grades have been working on division and multiplication using our TERC series of Investigations books. We’ve explored the number chart with skip counting, played games like Tricky Triangles, written riddles for our classmates to...
