On Thursday, October 16, 2014, nineteen of our oldest students visited Syracuse University’s campus to view Margaret Bourke White’s exhibit of 180 vintage photographs taken in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Read More >>
Archives for October 2014
Geometry
Our 5th graders have been working on all facets of geometry lately. They started with reviewing polygons during class and individual time on their contracts. They played games such as: Read More >>
Place Value Fun
Seven 3rd and 4th graders have been working hard in a place value class that has also integrated multiplication. We started with talking about skip counting on the 100s chart Read More >>
Xerox – Learning to Read
To assist children learning how to read, we offer small group instruction that focuses on the six syllable types. Using Road to Reading, and Wilson Language,each week children receive instruction Read More >>
Writing Workshop with Dana
We are working on short story structure: beginnings, middles, and ends. We have been discussing character motivation, dramatic conflict, and how to resolve things in an interesting and satisfying way. Read More >>
Cursive
Students in 3rd and 4th grades have been working on reviewing all of the lower case cursive letters from the clock climbers to the hills and valleys. As we finish Read More >>
Civil War Class Visits the Onondaga Historical Association
The oldest group of students are taking part in a social studies unit looking at the causes and events leading up to the Civil War. This is Read More >>
Layers of the Earth
The youngest group of students has been learning about the layers of the earth. We started off our unit by reading parts of Gail Gibbon’s bookPlanet Earth/Inside Out and How to Dig Read More >>
Upper Case Printing
Working once a week with our youngest children, we have studied and learned how to form the capital letters A through E. While this sounds like a simple task, there Read More >>
Native Americans and their Biomes
We started our unit by studying physical maps of the United States. We also looked at and discussed maps that show climate, and precipitation. Then we studied the biomes of Read More >>