by newschoolsyr | Oct 18, 2014 | 2014-2015, language arts
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 up our lower case letters, students have been challenged to write two words in cursive, switch with...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 17, 2014 | 2014-2015, Community events, field trips, Social Studies
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 a continuation of the Westward Expansion unit they completed last year. They have had remarkable...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 13, 2014 | 2014-2015, grade 2, Kindergarten and 1st grade, science
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 a Hole to the Otherside of the World by Faith McNulty. ...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 12, 2014 | 2014-2015, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts
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 are many things to consider. First of all where to start the letter? This is hard for some youngsters...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 6, 2014 | 2014-2015, grade 3, grade 4, Social Studies
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 North America and compared their boundaries to the physical...
