by newschoolsyr | May 11, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, mystery guest, Social Studies
History is about real people and the places they lived. It is about their stories. Too often in the study of history, our education misses this facet. Last week our older students were part of an extraordinary discussion. One of our students told us her grandfather...
by newschoolsyr | May 10, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, grades 6-8, language arts, Social Studies, visual arts
The causes and effects of the Great Depression were studied through the eyes of artists Dorothea Lange, John Steinbeck, Woody Guthrie, a political cartoonist of the era and Langston Hughes. Children created a one-page written and visual response based on one of...
by newschoolsyr | May 5, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, grades 6-8, Social Studies
The oldest students spent three months studying the causes and effects of World War 1. The causes were complex. Students looked at world maps showing imperialism around the world prior to the war. Having identified the colonialists gave meaning to the complicated...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 7, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, Kindergarten, language arts, Social Studies, visual arts, writing workshop
Since January, we began a class with the younger half of the school reading a wide variety of myths from Native American, South American, and African cultures that give voice to stories of how our world and elements of it have been created. We read many versions of...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 1, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, investigations, Social Studies
Cooking is a favorite Investigations activity. Students work together to make a food that they share with the whole school. In the process, they see practical applications for math and science. In their read-aloud group, the younger students listened to some of the...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 15, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, Social Studies
In our westward expansion class, we moved from learning about Americans traveling west to find a new life and settle in uncharted (to them) territory, to who was already living in these western lands. We started by reading aloud and discussing such books as The...
