by newschoolsyr | Nov 9, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, Social Studies
Students in the middle grades this year are exploring how the United States went from mainly states on the east coast to spreading across the continent. We started off this unit with a look at maps. We discussed the 13 Colonies victory against England and what that...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 9, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, Kindergarten, language arts, Social Studies, youngest students
The younger and middle group of students have listened to the book Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. While listening to the book, we made a chart of interesting words and the main characters that we heard about. We also got a chance to make...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 8, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, Kindergarten, science, Social Studies, visual arts
Our world is a magical place. Students in Kindergarten through 3rd grade have been exploring the unique qualities of each of the seven continents. First we looked at maps of the world, showing the seven continents, and then we made our own map. After each child was...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 2, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, Community, Social Studies, Uncategorized, whole school
At The New School we are working on a project called Making the World a Better Place. It is school wide and year long. Making the World a Better Place began with reading books about people or groups who have contributed to the well being of people and/or the...
by newschoolsyr | May 28, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, grades 3 - 6, Social Studies
Recently in biography class students have been researching different figures from Colonial Times. Each of the students in class was assigned a different person and wrote a narrative paragraph from that person’s perspective. Students worked on perspective...
by newschoolsyr | May 18, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, Grades 5 - 8, Social Studies, Uncategorized
This spring the oldest students started a unit on the Silk Road. The four objectives of this unit included being able to identify the major physical features that hindered travel between China and Europe. To discover how ideas, cultures and goods were exchanged...
