by newschoolsyr | Nov 11, 2014 | 2014-2015, Community events, language arts, visual arts, whole school music
Our storytelling unit has begun! The gifted Vanessa Johnson kicked it off as our fifth mystery guest. She started her presentation with a clever interaction between herself and three future generations, played by our own Glady, Frannie and Lola! Artfully she...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 23, 2014 | 2014-2015, Grades 5 - 8, language arts
We are working on short story structure: beginnings, middles, and ends. We have been discussing character motivation, dramatic conflict, and how to resolve things in an interesting and satisfying way. It’s a challenge to structure imaginative worlds,...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 18, 2014 | 2014-2015, language arts
Students in 3rd and 4th grades have been working on reviewing all of the lower case cursive letters from the clock climbers to the hills and valleys. As we finish up our lower case letters, students have been challenged to write two words in cursive, switch with...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 12, 2014 | 2014-2015, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts
Working once a week with our youngest children, we have studied and learned how to form the capital letters A through E. While this sounds like a simple task, there are many things to consider. First of all where to start the letter? This is hard for some youngsters...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 5, 2014 | 2014-2015, affective education, Community events, field trips, gross/fine motor, language arts, science, whole school
In many schools children are taken on camping field trips to celebrate the end of the year, as a reward you might say. At the New School we visit Highland Forest twice a year. The first time is scheduled near the start of school, and the second trip is within weeks of...
by newschoolsyr | Sep 25, 2014 | 2014-2015, Community events, field trips, language arts, science grade 2, visual arts
The Westcott Cultural Fair is always a festive way to begin our school year. This year, during Investigations, the children, expressing their love for books, created signs to carry . The titles of books they chose was wonderfully varied: Kensuke’s Kingdom,...
