by newschoolsyr | Mar 20, 2023 | 2022-2023, grades 6-8, language arts, Social Studies
As a culminating activity for our year long study of the Industrial Revolution, all the students were asked to develop an essay evaluating its positive and negative effects. Many historical documents, photos, journal entries, cartoons, were studied and discussed. The...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 2, 2022 | grades 6-8, Social Studies
To start this unit, students were asked to analyze a Lewis Hine photograph of children working in factories using the Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS). This led to a discussion of child labor. Each student was assigned to read and present an historical fiction novel...
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...
