by newschoolsyr | Nov 8, 2022 | grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, Grades 3 - 5, Social Studies
Students in the middle grades are participating in a class that is using the Jack and the Beanstalk story to explore underlying principles of our system of justice related to fairness and honesty. Students are engaging in activities that encourage their own opinions...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 11, 2022 | 2021-2022, Grades 5 - 8, Social Studies
This year the fifth and seventh grade group worked together in their social studies class to investigate the amendments. The students worked with their student teacher, Amelia, and looked deeper into the constitution and the amendments that were added. Students were...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 1, 2022 | 2021-2022, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, Social Studies, Uncategorized
Students in 2nd – 4th grade participated in a class this spring about the American Revolution. Students listened to and discussed the books such as: Sam the Minuteman, George the Drummer Boy, Can’t You Make them Behave King George and Phoebe the Spy. They have...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 11, 2022 | 2021-2022, Grades 5 - 8, Social Studies
Over the winter five of our oldest students looked at American History and specifically the Declaration of Independence and the forming of the Constitution. After Visual Thinking Strategies to interpret the Join or Die cartoon, students read sections of the...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 29, 2021 | 2021-2022, Cortland Student Teacher, Social Studies
In December the 2nd-4th graders were able to begin a Unit Plan on the 13 Colonies. The students were very excited to be learning about the United States history, but first it had to be explained to the students that the United States started off as the 13 Colonies....
by newschoolsyr | Nov 26, 2021 | 2021-2022, Grades 3 - 5, Social Studies
To start off our unit on native tribes in the US, we studied maps and discussed how the original inhabitants of North and South America came to the continents over the ice covered Bering Strait. We looked at the tribes in the 5 regions, (north east, south east, north...
