by newschoolsyr | Dec 28, 2021 | 2021-2022, Cortland Student Teacher, math, Uncategorized
In the middle of November a few students began a Geometry Unit. The goal of this unit was for students to be able to identify a variety of shapes and be able to count their sides and vertices. We primarily worked with shapes with 3-6 sides. All students excelled in...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 28, 2021 | 2021-2022, Cortland Student Teacher, grade 5, science, Uncategorized
Over the past few months the students have been learning about electricity. This is a very exciting topic for the students because electricity means a lot of activities and experiments! We learned how to light up a lightbulb only using a battery, lightbulb and two...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 7, 2021 | grade 1, Kindergarten, science, Uncategorized
Students participated in a Solar system unit where we talked about the name of the planets, their size, their distance from the sun, the moon phases, and constellations. The first-class students listened to a book about the planets and began drawing and coloring in...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
In a 5-week online class, students in grades 2 – 4 learned about the seven best known simple machines — lever, inclined plane, wedge, screw, wheel and axle, gear, and pulley — through videos, on-camera demonstrations, discussion and hands-on activities. The...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 19, 2021 | 2020-2021, grade 1, grade 2, Kindergarten, science, Uncategorized
When Animal class began again in January of this year, we started with a book called The Butterfly and the Lamb. As is often the case, while the book seems very simple it is addressing an important issue: the difference between animals who need to be nutured for some...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
During Spring 2021, four students in grades 4 – 6 all were in a book club reading Finding Langston. The story was about a boy named Langston and his father after they move to Chicago from Alabama after his mother passed away and Langston finding the writer...
