by newschoolsyr | Feb 3, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, Community events, field trips, grades 6-8, investigations, Uncategorized, visual arts
Six of the oldest students just completed an exciting sewing project! First the children had to get certified by the Fayetteville Free Library’s staff. An hour long course taught them the parts of the sewing machine and how to thread it, fill a bobbin and more!...
by newschoolsyr | May 31, 2017 | 2016-2017, grades 6-8
Spanish this semester went so well! Ace, Ben, Greer, and Jonas were all such wonderful students ready for each class with great participation and questions! We started off the semester working with “Las Palabras del Día” (The words of the day) where we started basic...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 15, 2017 | 2016-2017, grades 6-8, language arts, Social Studies
Over the past six weeks the students in sixth and seventh grade have been reading the book Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry by Susan Vaught. This book is about a girl named Dani who sets out to solve the mystery behind why her dying grandmother, who used to be a...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 14, 2017 | 2016-2017, grades 6-8, science
In December 2016, Students in grades 6 & 7 began a unit on exploring microscopes and discovering things too small to see with our eyes. We started this unit by reading about Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and then creating our own “microscopes” with...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 27, 2016 | 2016-2017, grades 6-8, Lemoyne Student teacher, math
In Math class the 7th graders have been developing their abilities to solve for a variable in a equation and have recently been introduced to solving inequalities. The amount of background knowledge and problem solving abilities students bring makes each class very...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 26, 2016 | 2016-2017, grades 6-8, language arts
Paul Otteson, parent of two former New School students, returned to teach a 3-session workshop on story structure, with an emphasis on how to end stories or story segments. Exercises included learning about six classic styles of ending stories (resolved, unresolved,...
