by newschoolsyr | Jun 2, 2013 | 2012-2013, Community events, visual arts, whole school
Paul Otteson, Alaira’s father, came to the New School to share a strangely beautiful student architectural model in balsawood to introduce the underlying structure of a building. The students were fascinated to learn about joists and studs and to think about...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 2, 2013 | 2012-2013, Community events, field trips, Grades 3 - 5, Grades 5 - 8, visual arts
The older students at The New School thoroughly enjoyed Syracuse Stage’s production of Midsummer Night’s Dream. Once again we were treated to front row, center seats. Following are comments, compliments and observations made by our studentsBen, Ciara, Ace, and...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 18, 2013 | 2012-2013, language arts phonemic awareness, visual arts
Once a week the youngest students take part in a class called “Word Stretch” which gives the students an opportunity to write words. Each class begins with the students writing their names, the date and numbering their paper 1-6. As a group we brainstorm a topic such...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 10, 2013 | 2012-2013, grade 3, science, visual arts
Children in the middle grades created landscapes of the biome they researched earlier in the year. First they were asked to consider where the horizon would be on their landscape. Then they considered the time of day. Would it be at dawn, dusk, at night or in the heat...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 10, 2013 | 2012-2013, visual arts, whole school
After we learned about the aboriginal art of Australia we traveled north to the continent of Asia where we started learning about Chinese brush painting. We looked at slides and discovered how the Chinese “like to draw nature” and use “a lot of white...
by newschoolsyr | Feb 14, 2013 | 2012-2013, language arts, language arts grades K-2, language arts phonemic awareness, visual arts, youngest students
Once a week the youngest students listen to a book on tape. As they listen they copy the title of the book and start drawing a favorite scene in the book. More recently children have been asked to write one or two sentences. Some of the titles they have listened to...
