by newschoolsyr | Sep 28, 2013 | 2013-2014, affective education, gross/fine motor, Physical Education, whole school
Investigations is scheduled every afternoon from 1:30pm until 2:25pm. Most children will say this is the best part of the day, running neck and neck with gym or outdoor play! During Investigations children are offered a choice of activities. If all their “contract...
by newschoolsyr | Sep 28, 2013 | 2013-2014, Community events, field trips, whole school
Thanks to the Brower family, we now have our own school van. Transporting ten children at a time, we went on our first field trip of the year to pick apples at Beak and Skiff. The apples we picked were then the main ingredient for some delicious recipes the children...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 27, 2013 | 2012-2013, affective education, whole school
Our last day of school is magical. No other way to describe it. Each child is read a letter which celebrates an accomplishment of the year. The whole school listens. Then each child is presented with a gift – a box which illustrates the letter. No two children...
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 | 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 | language arts, whole school
Every day we end with a relaxing twenty minute Read Aloud. Our groupings change according to the content of the book. This fall we split into two groups. The older children (in grades 3 – 8) listened to J. R. Tolkein’s The Hobbit on the upstairs rug. This...
