by newschoolsyr | May 5, 2013 | 2012-2013, Grades 5 - 8, science
Our nine oldest students are participating in classes on using a microscope and making slides. To start off this class and after watching a video on the parts of a microscope, students were paired and asked to find those parts on their microscope – which were...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 2, 2013 | 2012-2013, Community events, field trips, Grades 3 - 5, Grades 5 - 8, visual arts
The older students at The New School thoroughly enjoyed Syracuse Stage’s production of Midsummer Night’s Dream. Once again we were treated to front row, center seats. Following are comments, compliments and observations made by our studentsBen, Ciara, Ace, and...
by newschoolsyr | Feb 14, 2013 | 2012-2013, Grades 5 - 8, math
Students in grades 5 and 6 were part of a Decimal class based on the teaching of Marilyn Burns. To ensure students understood the relationship between decimals and fractions students used tens blocks to represent wholes, tenths, hundredths and finally thousandths....
by newschoolsyr | Oct 21, 2012 | 2012-2013, Grades 5 - 8, language arts, visual arts
Students in this book club read a biography of their choosing over the summer. When they returned to school this fall, they had to answer questions about their biography and create a poster advertising a speaking engagement by the subject of their...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 4, 2011 | Grades 5 - 8, science
Everyone has played with bubbles at some point in their life. However, many people may not think about what a bubble really is. What makes a bubble a bubble? Six of the students in grades 4-7 investigated the science behind soap bubbles through hands on experimenting....
by newschoolsyr | Apr 5, 2011 | Grades 5 - 8, Social Studies
In February nine of the oldest students started a Reconstruction unit. First we went back to the Declaration of Independence and the students were asked to rewrite one section in their own words:We hold these Truthsto be self-evident,that all Men are created...
