by newschoolsyr | Nov 10, 2023 | visual arts, whole school
Step Right Up! The whole school spent this fall learning about the circus. We read books like, You See a Circus, I see….” by Mike Downs, Peter Spier’s Circus, Circus by Lois Ehlert, Sandy’s Circus, The Giant of Seville and The World’s Greatest...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 20, 2023 | 2022-2023, visual arts, whole school
This project started in February with a slide show of Pablo Picasso’s cubist portraits. As always the children had amazing observations about color, geometric shapes and unusual perspectives. Each student then created his/her own cubist portrait, which was...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 20, 2023 | language arts, visual arts, whole school
Doug Dubois, father of Cyrus, introduced us to the fascinating work of MacArthur Fellow, Wendy Ewald who began fostering literacy via photography and storytelling with children in the 1970s. Together we decided to create an alphabet book, randomly assigning each child...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 26, 2022 | 2021-2022, visual arts, whole school
Throughout the year children at The New School participate in school wide art projects. One of the first projects this year was “Cube Art” which used cardboard cubes, aka boxes. Each student decided on an overarching idea and drew a group of six related pictures. We...
by newschoolsyr | May 14, 2021 | 2020-2021, Social Studies, whole school
Each child at The New School was given a replica of an old postcard of a Syracuse scene. Postcards showed parks, downtown scenes, and places of interest such as Oakwood Cemetery. Using VTS (Visual Thinking Strategies) children were asked to look at the picture and...
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Our children, our students, live in a world that has developed all kinds of media and ways to transmit information, disinformation, ideas, and images. They hear the media, adults, other peers talking about events and opinions as they move through their days. Some of...
