by newschoolsyr | Mar 12, 2014 | grade 2, grade 3, language arts
This year we have a group of children in the 2nd and 3rd grades that were ready to develop a better awareness of the conventions of writing, including capitals and punctuation.We decided that we would use the familiar format of New and Goods but with a different...
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...
by newschoolsyr | Feb 17, 2014 | 2013-2014, grade 2, grade 3, language arts
Inspired by Kenneth Koch’s book, Wishes, Lies and Dreams children in second and third grade spent six weeks writing poems about sounds, dreams, colors, comparisons, and lies. They were most intrigued and excited about writing about lies!White Mitten by SyrisI...
by newschoolsyr | Feb 4, 2014 | 2013-2014, grade 2, grade 3, language arts
The second and third graders are proud to have published their small moments stories! They took part in a writing workshop where they realized that they can learn to be better writers by studying other authors. Angela Johnson, Ezra Jack Keats and our fellow New...
by newschoolsyr | Jan 16, 2014 | 2013-2014, Community events, grade 2, Kindergarten and 1st grade, Social Studies
The kindergarten, first, and second graders took a trip to Cazenovia Library to see Hen, the Mummy. Before we went, we read about mummies–how they are made and why. We also read the book I Am the Mummy Heb-Nefert, by Eve Bunting, the...
