by newschoolsyr | Oct 12, 2013 | 2013-2014, grades 4 - 8, science
To start the year, the oldest students were challenged to learn as much as they could about bugscopters – a t-shaped, paper, helicopter-like creation of Larry Schafer, formerly professor of Science Teaching at SU. After exploring the characteristics of the...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 9, 2013 | 2013-2014, grades 4 - 8, language arts, Social Studies
The oldest students listened to a book at read aloud this fall called Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay. In this book, it is the year 4022 and all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of junk mail from a catastrophe that...
by newschoolsyr | Feb 13, 2012 | 2011-2012, grades 4 - 8, Social Studies
After studying the early explorers to the New World we turned our attention to the people who decided to settle in the New World – the early colonists. Each student was assigned one of the 13 colonies to research the...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 26, 2011 | grades 4 - 8, math
For six weeks in September and October students in grades 4 to 7 were part of a class learning about probability. We started the unit by having a mystery bag in which there were ten cubes. Students had to pull out one cube at a time and then put the cube back; they...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 26, 2011 | grades 4 - 8, language arts phonemic awareness
Many of the older students have been reading the book Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. Each time the book club met the students were given a set of questions on a bookmark that went with the next section of reading. Students were challenged to look beyond the text...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 26, 2011 | grades 4 - 8, language arts
The fourth through eighth graders have been working on a writing piece based off the novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. In the story the main character is faced with a challenge to drink from a spring that could make her live forever. Students were asked to...
