by newschoolsyr | Sep 22, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, Community, Community events, science, visual arts
It has become a tradition for The New School to take part in the Westcott Street Cultural Fair’s parade. This year all the children made hats and will be marching as animals from one of the seven continents! Children randomly selected a continent, and animal and...
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 | May 28, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, grade 3, grade 4, science, Uncategorized
In our science class with students in grades 3 and 4, we studied the water cycle. This unit focuses on how water exists in our world and how it transforms from phase to phase.We explored how water exists in nature as a solid, a liquid and a gas. In this unit we have...
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...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 29, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, science
Our second through fourth graders have recently wrapped up a science unit on bats. In this unit we studied unique qualities and characteristics of specific bat species, compared bats to birds, learned about echolocation, and contributed to bat conservation. Some of...
