by newschoolsyr | Nov 9, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, Kindergarten, math
Every day the Kindergarten students play games to practice their math skills. These games are played with a teacher or an older student. Children have been working on a number of skills including addition to ten. To practice these skills they have played games like...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 9, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, Kindergarten, language arts, youngest students
Our youngest students typically have an ABC center once a day. During this time they play language arts games with a teacher or an older student. Sometimes the activities involve all three Kindergarten students, sometimes one other student and sometimes the game is...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 8, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, Kindergarten, science, Social Studies, visual arts
Our world is a magical place. Students in Kindergarten through 3rd grade have been exploring the unique qualities of each of the seven continents. First we looked at maps of the world, showing the seven continents, and then we made our own map. After each child was...
by newschoolsyr | May 28, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, grade 1, Kindergarten, math
In Math class, our youngest students have been working on developing and reading pictographs and bar graphs. We made several graphs from scratch and analyzed existing graphs. This helps the students to identify things like the most, the least and things that have the...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 15, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, grade 1, grade 2, Kindergarten, science
In January, we continued our butterfly class. As always it allowed for wonderful conversations on big ideas. One day we began to talk about butterflies, discussing that they don’t stay around to nurture their young. We talked a little about the difference...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 7, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, grade 1, grade 2, Kindergarten, science
The youngest students have recently begun a unit on electricity. We follow the same format we used for our Butterfly class. We meet once a week for 50 minutes. For the first half hour we read and talk. For the next 20 minutes we have a studio time where we break...
