by Alex Melnick | Nov 4, 2025 | 2025-2026, language arts, language arts grades K-2, youngest students
First- and second-grade students have been participating in Listening Center. During this class, children listen to a story without looking at the pictures. While listening, they draw a picture related to what they hear in the story. They may begin drawing at any time...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 22, 2025 | grade 2, grade 3, Kindergarten, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts, youngest students
Maryrose, a student teacher from SUNY Cortland, had the opportunity to take over an author study during snack time. She chose to have the students listen to books by the author Jane Yolen and her books titled “How does a Dinosaur….” Maryrose’s objective for the author...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 24, 2024 | Social Studies, youngest students
This fall, children in grades kindergarten through third grade have been learning about the Haudenosaunee. We started out our unit by looking at maps and finding out where New York is in the United States, and then where each of the six tribes of the Haudensaunee were...
by newschoolsyr | May 24, 2024 | Kindergarten and 1st grade, math, youngest students
Learning to read word problems for young children has many aspects. We began with the four children by having them recognize possible, impossible or incorrect number sentences such as: ? + 5 = 7, 7= 5+?, or 5+3 = 7 or 7+2=5. This was often tricky and took...
by newschoolsyr | May 4, 2024 | Social Studies, Social Studies grades K-2, youngest students
We started our Ancient China unit for the youngest students by learning about the Chinese Zodiac and having a New Years celebration at school. Students learned about how the zodiac signs were formed with a folk tale about a race called: Cat and Rat : The legend of the...
by newschoolsyr | May 4, 2024 | Social Studies, Social Studies grades K-2, youngest students
Students in the youngest group participated in classes to learn about the seven continents. Discussions and activities included information about the earth as a sphere and looking at a “flattened” version of the earth to see the seven continents. We learned a song...
