by newschoolsyr | Dec 29, 2021 | 2021-2022, language arts
Students in our middle group of students this fall, have been reading a biography by Margaret Davidson titled Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind. At the same time we’ve slowly been reading the picture book Six Dots: The Story of Young Louis...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 29, 2021 | 2021-2022, Cortland Student Teacher, Kindergarten, language arts
In mid November Kindergarteners moved on from constructing words with objects, for example a Comb, Apple and a Turtle means CAT to making them with their sound boards. A sound board allows the students to have a group of consonants and one vowel (a) to make words....
by newschoolsyr | Dec 29, 2021 | 2021-2022, Cortland Student Teacher, language arts
In late October, early November we began reading a book called Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. This is a book that essentially asks the question if you had the choice to live forever would you do it? This is how the book is introduced to the students, as they had...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 7, 2021 | 2021-2022, grades 7-8, language arts
This fall students read “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie. The book is about a kid, named Junior, who lives on the Indian reservation. He was born to Salish Indians, a Coeur d’Alene father and a Spokane mother. His intersectionality...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 23, 2021 | 2020-2021, Cortland Student Teacher, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, Kindergarten, language arts
During the beginning stages of our transition from distance to in-person learning at the school, our K-3, in-person students, participated in a read-aloud series during snack that addressed and discussed the importance of children and young people following their...
by newschoolsyr | May 30, 2021 | 2020-2021, grades 6-8, language arts, writing workshop
A group of our six older students were part of a poetry class inspired by Amanda Gorman’s spectacular presentation of “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in January 2021. Gorman’s poem provided a natural extension for our year-long study of...
