by newschoolsyr | Mar 18, 2016 | 2015-2016, grade 2, Kindergarten and 1st grade, science, youngest students
The youngest group of students have been investigating DINOSAURS! We took a long time to read Dinosaur Valley and Maia: A Dinosaur Grows Up. Dinosaur Valley follows a family of Orodromeus dinosaurs. Maia is a story of a Maiasaura, a duck-billed dinosaur, as she grows...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 18, 2016 | 2015-2016, Kindergarten and 1st grade, math, youngest students
The youngest students have been taking part in a math class learning about fractions and geometry. They loved the hands-on activities! In fractions, they began by identifying and creating equal parts of objects. They used playdoh and cookie cutters to cut shapes in...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 18, 2016 | 2015-2016, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts, youngest students
As children develop an awareness of letters, and the sounds they make, they also have to learn how to form letters smoothly and automatically, writing from the top of the letter to the bottom. This year our youngest children have enjoyed a variety of classes where...
by newschoolsyr | Feb 24, 2016 | 2015-2016, grade 1, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts, Social Studies, youngest students
Students in Kindergarten and First Grade have been learning about the culture of India through the use of the book Count Your Way Through India by Jim Haskins. We started at one and learned about how to say this number in Hindi and about the amazing banyan tree....
by newschoolsyr | Dec 29, 2015 | 2015-2016, grade 2, Kindergarten and 1st grade, Social Studies grades K-2, visual arts
Our youngest students continue their study of biomes. In December we moved our focus from the rain forest to grasslands. We listened to books and learned how grasslands are very different to rain forest. There are very few trees in the grassland and there are two...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 24, 2015 | 2015-2016, Kindergarten and 1st grade
Folktales Retold is a class in which the kindergarten and first grade students meet two times a week during Silent Reading time to listen to picture books of folktales. We have read several versions of Little Red Riding Hood. Some were retellings of the traditional...
