by newschoolsyr | Nov 4, 2017 | 2017 - 2018, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, language arts
Lucy Calkins inspired a poetry unit for our students in grades 1-3. Each week of her unit inspires children to consider a new “ingredient” or strategy. The unit began with experimenting with looking at ordinary things in a new way. Subsequent classes explored looking...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 4, 2017 | 2017 - 2018, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, language arts
A small group of students read Twister on Tuesday, a Magic Tree House book about twisters. The book club focused reading skills such as comprehension, compare and contrast, summarizing, predictions, moods of pictures and text, and relating character traits to...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 27, 2017 | 2017 - 2018, grade 3, grade 4, math
This math class focused of recognizing specific polygons. We started out learning that the number of sides and vertices a polygon has is what determines the polygon’s name. We also went over what congruent and symmetrical were and examples were shown as visual...
by newschoolsyr | May 7, 2017 | 2016-2017, grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, Grades 3 - 5, Social Studies
After looking at maps and realizing how many people were already here in the “new world” each student was assigned a tribe to read about, do research on and report about their customs, homes, food and more. Students were also given picture of Native...
by newschoolsyr | May 3, 2017 | 2016-2017, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, language arts
This unit was started by our student teacher this past fall. After she left, we slowly have been finishing up what she started. Each student picked a topic that they knew “all about” and started writing about that topic. Topics include, cheetahs, NASA,...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 20, 2017 | 2016-2017, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, science, visual arts
Students in grades 1, 2 and 3 were part of a unit that recently studied the ocean. Students working with a partner explored the characteristics of a specific layer of the ocean. They researched and wrote a short paragraph describing their assigned layer and the...
