During snack each week we have been listening to the plays of William Shakespeare as retold by Bruce Coville. We started with Romeo and Juliet and then moved on to Read More >>
Archives for November 2011
Place Value
In our place value class, five students learn how to use the number grid to quickly add and subtract numbers. Along the way, students explore how there are many ways Read More >>
The Dragonling Book Club
Sometimes doing what is right is not what is easy. Four of our younger students are learning about this through the book The Dragonling by Jackie French Koller. Here students Read More >>
Worms are Fun
What fun our youngest students had learning about worms! We were lucky to have live worms to study and draw this fall. We observed how worms moved and dug their Read More >>
Wonderful Water
Molly Molecule is a song that you may hear around the New School in the coming weeks. She is made of H2O (which is water you know). Stay tuned for Read More >>
Worms
Students in grade 2 spent 6 weeks observing worms and their behavior. First we predicted whether worms prefer light or dark, prefer moist or dry areas, and how they react Read More >>
Light
A good question can lead us to a lot of learning. How do you see with your eye?We started our 6 week unit studying the human eye. Each week we Read More >>