by newschoolsyr | Oct 23, 2011 | grades 4 - 8, math
Students in the intermediate grades explored the many ways you can display data. The first information or data we considered was a list of our birthdays. How could we display this information so it would be easier to read and compare? Bar Graphs were the answer. Our...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 2, 2011 | grades 4 - 8, Social Studies
For the older student, our early American History unit began in September with a study of the early explorers to the New World. The students were divided into four groups (countries): Spain, France, England and Holland. Each group is responsible for researching and...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 17, 2011 | grades 4 - 8, language arts, Social Studies
During Read Aloud, the 5th – 8th graders listened to “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon” by Grace Lin. In this story Min-Li, a young Chinese girl, becomes a hero as she travels to find her family’s fortune by talking to the Man in the Moon....
by newschoolsyr | Mar 7, 2011 | grades 4 - 8, language arts, Social Studies
Inspired by Kenneth Koch’s Rose, where did you get that red? book the older students spent a month studying the poems of Wallace Stevens: Thirteen Ways to Look at a Blackbird, John Ashbery: Into the Dusk-Charged Air, and Arthur Rimbaud: Voyelles....
by newschoolsyr | Feb 6, 2011 | grades 4 - 8, science
The older students spent four weeks studying The Periodic Table and creating a Wanted Poster for an element of their choice. We introduced the project by listening to Tom Lehrer singing “Elements,” his well known song where he rattles off all the elements...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 8, 2010 | grades 4 - 8, science
In science class, students have been learning about physical and chemical changes as well as acids and bases. We have learned about the characteristics that provide us with evidence that either a physical or chemical change has occured. We have had labs that dealt...
