by newschoolsyr | Dec 2, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, Community, field trips, grades 4 - 8, middle school, Social Studies
This fall students in grades 4-8 got a chance to participate in a WCNY program called Enterprise America. Students got to run a simulated city for a day. Each student was assigned a job and given tasks on how to complete that job. Students also had to manage their...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 2, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, grades 6-8, middle school, science
This fall, students in grades 6-8 participated in a unit on bubbles. We started this unit by creating a small and large frame that could help us explore soap solution. Students were then asked what they would like to know about soap bubbles and what surfaces they...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 3, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, Grades 5 - 8, middle school, science
Students in grades 5-8 participated in a simple machines unit. Our class started this unit by defining terms that had to do with simple machines and looking at cartoons drawn by Rube Goldberg to finding simple machines in his silly and complex drawings. During...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 27, 2016 | 2016-2017, math, middle school
Two students in 7th grade are working at an advanced pace on 7th grade materials. Since the start of the year, they have reviewed topics of fractions, decimals, and a variety of other topics to bring them up to speed on going through our new text book. Our topics...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 10, 2015 | 2015-2016, language arts, math, middle school
This Fall, students in our oldest grades have been listening to a series of math books that discuss and explain all different types of math processes. Books we’ve read this fall include: Multiplying Menace, Sold!, Rabbits Rabbits Everywhere, and Zachary Zormer:...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 6, 2015 | 2015-2016, Community events, field trips, Grades 5 - 8, language arts, middle school, Social Studies
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” In class we discussed the meaning of these words from...
