by newschoolsyr | May 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Native Americans class focused on the Iroquois tribe. We focused on the Iroquois tribe because it is right in our back door. The Onondaga nation is just south of Syracuse. We started with an overview of the Iroquois nation. They went over how stories were passed...
by newschoolsyr | May 26, 2023 | 2022-2023, grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, Uncategorized
Our Human Body class has turned into an opportunity for the students to discover how much our body systems contribute to everything we do in life. After discussing the Nervous system, we moved on to the respiratory system, where the students were able to construct...
by newschoolsyr | May 26, 2023 | 2022-2023, grade 1, Kindergarten, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts, Uncategorized, writing workshop, youngest students
Children in Kindergarten and First Grade participated in a writing class this spring where they “played” with words and pictures. They worked on rhyming, fact & opinion and writing descriptive sentences. Here are some examples of their...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
From September to the end of October the Second and Third graders learned about the explorers who traveled across the United States to find a waterway to the Pacific Ocean. One of the first things that students learned was that it was that a large part of the U.S. was...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
This spring the three seventh graders participated in a class called Seven Minutes of Terror. The launch window for the Mars 2020 mission opened July 17 and closed Aug. 5, when Earth and Mars are in the proper positions in the solar system to enable a direct...
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...
