Blog – Page 24

08.28.18 |

School and Community

As schooling became more the norm, a child’s inclusion and exposure to the wide world was more limited and controlled. However, as Neil Postman in The Disappearance of Childhood says, Read More >>

08.15.18 |

What does it mean to individualize curriculum?

Your child is like no other. At The New School we build our relationship with your child based on the understanding that each child processes their thinking and actions based Read More >>

08.01.18 |

The Benefits of a Multi Age School Environment

From birth all of us are social learners (Lev Vygotsky’s Social Learning Theory). It is how we learned to walk and talk. We learned from those who are older by Read More >>

07.15.18 |

Affective education, intellectual education and academic education support need each other. At The New School we make time for all of them. What is affective education? Areas of affective Read More >>

06.03.18 |

Simple Machines

Students in grades 5-8 participated in a simple machines unit. Our class started this unit by defining terms that had to do with simple machines and looking at cartoons drawn Read More >>

05.28.18 |

Water Cycle

In our science class with students in grades 3 and 4, we studied the water cycle. This unit focuses on how water exists in our world and how it transforms Read More >>

05.28.18 |

Graphing Centers

In Math class, our youngest students have been working on developing and reading pictographs and bar graphs. We made several graphs from scratch and analyzed existing graphs. This helps the students Read More >>

05.28.18 |

The Littles Book Club

In our Book Club class we read and discussed the book “The Littles” by John Peterson. Our focus during this Book Club was on reading comprehension. The students in class Read More >>

05.26.18 |

Math Centers – Place Value 2018

For most of the second part of this school year, the youngest children have been working on two digit place value. We started off counting up from the bottom of Read More >>