by newschoolsyr | Mar 22, 2025 | grade 2, grade 3, Kindergarten, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts, youngest students
Maryrose, a student teacher from SUNY Cortland, had the opportunity to take over an author study during snack time. She chose to have the students listen to books by the author Jane Yolen and her books titled “How does a Dinosaur….” Maryrose’s objective for the author...
by newschoolsyr | May 24, 2024 | Kindergarten and 1st grade, math, youngest students
Learning to read word problems for young children has many aspects. We began with the four children by having them recognize possible, impossible or incorrect number sentences such as: ? + 5 = 7, 7= 5+?, or 5+3 = 7 or 7+2=5. This was often tricky and took...
by newschoolsyr | May 26, 2023 | 2022-2023, grade 1, Kindergarten, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts, Uncategorized, writing workshop, youngest students
Children in Kindergarten and First Grade participated in a writing class this spring where they “played” with words and pictures. They worked on rhyming, fact & opinion and writing descriptive sentences. Here are some examples of their...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 8, 2022 | Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts
Students in kindergarten and first grade have been listening to stories by Bernard Wabber about Lyle the Crocodile. As we read these stories, we discuss vocabulary such as: useful, desperately, toothsome, frightened, performing, permit and signal. Students are then...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 11, 2022 | 2021-2022, grade 1, Kindergarten, Kindergarten and 1st grade, science
Over the last few months, all of the kindergarten and first graders have been in a magnet class during Investigations that was a total of five classes. The groups were split up into two groups and they met about once a week. This class was incredibly fun for them...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 28, 2022 | 2021-2022, grade 1, Kindergarten, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts, Uncategorized, youngest students
Some of the youngest students listened to the book Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews. After listening to the book, counting dots and discussing each page, students worked hard on making their own Ten Blue Dots Book. During each class, students get to work on a page or...
