by newschoolsyr | Nov 21, 2015 | 2015-2016, Kindergarten and 1st grade, youngest students
The youngest group of students are participating in a printing class. They are working their way through the alphabet learning how to form all the capital letters correctly. They have worked on the letters A-M so far and will continue to practice the rest of the...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 8, 2015 | 2015-2016, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts phonemic awareness
Our youngest students spent the first 6 weeks of school playing many games where they worked on identifying the sounds of letters in our alphabet. After giving them all a letter/sound assessment in October (see above) we decided they were ready to start a class...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 8, 2015 | 2015-2016, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts, language arts phonemic awareness
Four of our youngest students started a class in late October where they are using pictures to help them identify sounds in the words. For the activity each child draws a picture out a bag, identifies the letter the word begins with, writes the capital and lower case...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 6, 2015 | 2015-2016, Community events, field trips, grade 1, grade 2, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts, science, science grades K-2, visual arts
The eleven youngest students started the year learning about the Rain Forest. New concepts and vocabulary were introduced as they listened to and discussed the content of many books on the subject. If I Ran the Rain Forest by Bonnie Worth and Rain, Rain, Rain Forest...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 2, 2015 | 2014-2015, grade 2, Kindergarten and 1st grade, Social Studies
Students in grades K-2 started a social students unit this fall on explorers. Students were first asked to explain the difference between an Explorer and Exploring and came up with statements such as: Explore means to look for things and Explorer...
by newschoolsyr | Jan 13, 2015 | 2014-2015, investigations, Kindergarten and 1st grade, math, science
How do airplanes fly? That is a question that our younger students (K-2) explored during Investigations. They made paper airplanes and tested them to see how far they could fly. Then they modified their planes to see if they could get them to fly farther. They...
