by newschoolsyr | Oct 11, 2012 | 2012-2013, language arts, youngest students
Students in Kindergarten and First Grade are exploring the fun of Bernard Waber’s loveable crocodile, Lyle. Each week we read a Lyle book and then draw and write about one part of the book. Students love predicting what will happen in the story from the...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 24, 2012 | 2011-2012, math, youngest students
Inch by inch we built our own measuring tapes and used them to measure our thumbs, ears, wrists, and waists. We were excited to find how much easier it is to use a measuring tape to measure around things than it is to use a ruler!
by newschoolsyr | Mar 23, 2012 | 2011-2012, affective education, language arts phonemic awareness, youngest students
New and Good is a tradition at The New School. It was started in the 1970’s by Bob Newman, when he was the director of the Syracuse Institute for Enabling Education (the precursor) to The New School. It has worked effectively during all these years to...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 2, 2011 | science, youngest students
The Kindergarten and First Grade science class has recently been learning about chickens. Students have explored the life cycle of the chicken, looked at and ordered the 21 days it takes to hatch a chicken egg, and named the parts of a chicken egg. ...
by newschoolsyr | Feb 13, 2011 | math, youngest students
1st graders were given a magnifying glass and asked to compare and contrast dimes, nickels, pennies and quarters. They played games such as “Race to a Quarter” and “The Matching Game” which gave them practice trading coins (5 pennies for 1 nickel, 2 nickels for 1 dime...
by newschoolsyr | Jan 12, 2011 | language arts, youngest students
The youngest students have been working on a cutting book during journalling time once or twice a week. This activity has focused on cutting out pictures from magazines and pasting them with the correct initial sound in the alphabet. Students then have to...
