by newschoolsyr | Jun 8, 2020 | 2019 - 2020, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, Kindergarten, Social Studies
This December we wrapped up a unit on Explorers from all different time periods and people going to all different places (space, underwater, to the arctic), and we moved to just learning about the “New World” that was “discovered” by Europeans. To kick off this unit,...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 7, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, Kindergarten, language arts, Social Studies, visual arts, writing workshop
Since January, we began a class with the younger half of the school reading a wide variety of myths from Native American, South American, and African cultures that give voice to stories of how our world and elements of it have been created. We read many versions of...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 6, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, science
This spring, students in grades 2-4 participated in a unit on the layers of the Earth. We read The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth, by Joanna & Bruce Cole to gather baseline information about layers within the Earth. We began this unit by creating clay model...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 1, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, grade 2, grade 3, science
We began our study of the water cycle by identifying where we can find water throughout the earth. Did you know that about 97% of the earth’s water is salt water? And that most of the fresh water is frozen in glaciers and the polar ice caps? As we continued...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 15, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, grade 2, Kindergarten, science, science grades K-2, Uncategorized, youngest students
This winter, students in Kindergarten through Second Grade participated in a class on growing cycles. We started this class out by talking about our cycles in our own lives. We discussed the months of the year and did an activity where we did all the cycles in...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 15, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, Social Studies
In our westward expansion class, we moved from learning about Americans traveling west to find a new life and settle in uncharted (to them) territory, to who was already living in these western lands. We started by reading aloud and discussing such books as The...
