by Alex Melnick | Nov 4, 2025 | 2025-2026, language arts, language arts grades K-2, youngest students
First- and second-grade students have been participating in Listening Center. During this class, children listen to a story without looking at the pictures. While listening, they draw a picture related to what they hear in the story. They may begin drawing at any time...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 8, 2022 | language arts grades K-2
Students in Kindergarten and First Grade have an art class each day. Second grade joins us once a week. K-1 has free art at least once a week where students can work on longer individual projects or experiment with new materials. We have made and colored...
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Our children, our students, live in a world that has developed all kinds of media and ways to transmit information, disinformation, ideas, and images. They hear the media, adults, other peers talking about events and opinions as they move through their days. Some of...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 1, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, language arts grades K-2, youngest students
Once a week our youngest students gather together for their own read-aloud during the school-wide reading time. Some of them are just beginning to learn to read. Others have developed some reading skills and are just beginning to read independently. They all enjoy...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 12, 2013 | 2013-2014, grade 3, language arts, language arts grades K-2, visual arts
This mini unit explored the connections between visual art and language arts, and how both are used to creatively tell stories and express emotions. After listening to the picture book, Go Away Big Green Monster by Ed Emberley children were introduced to adjectives as...
by newschoolsyr | Feb 14, 2013 | 2012-2013, language arts, language arts grades K-2, language arts phonemic awareness, visual arts, youngest students
Once a week the youngest students listen to a book on tape. As they listen they copy the title of the book and start drawing a favorite scene in the book. More recently children have been asked to write one or two sentences. Some of the titles they have listened to...