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Friendship Bracelets and Boondoggle fun

Johnna, our student teacher, enjoyed sharing her interest in arts and crafts activities during investigations. She choose to teach the students how to make friendship bracelets. Each student was given the chance to make Read More >>

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Data and Graphing

This fall the younger group of students in 2nd and 3rd  grades began a data class with Johnna our student teacher. Throughout this class the students demonstrated the ability to Read More >>

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Immigration Videos from 2012-2013

Last year at The New School, as part of our social studies unit on Immigration, each student interviewed one of their ancestors who had immigrated to America. The students took Read More >>

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Math Problem Solving

We value giving children the opportunity to problem solve and think critically.  A group of 2ndgraders met once a week to tackle problems such as: “How many feet would there Read More >>

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Poetry with Kenneth Koch

Inspired by Kenneth Koch’s book, Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? the older students spent 6 weeks studying the poems of Wallace Stevens’ Thirteen Ways to Look at a Read More >>

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Bugsocopter Science

To start the year, the oldest students were challenged to learn as much as they could about bugscopters – a t-shaped, paper, helicopter-like creation of Larry Schafer, formerly professor of Read More >>

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Green Eyed Monster

This mini unit explored the connections between visual art and language arts, and how both are used to creatively tell stories and express emotions. After listening to the picture book, Read More >>

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Motel of the Mysteries

The oldest students listened to a book at read aloud this fall called Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay. In this book, it is the year 4022 and all of the ancient Read More >>

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Seeds

In science class, students in Kindergarten and First Grade have been exploring seeds.  We started our unit by reading a book called A Fruit is a Suitcase for a Seed by Jean Read More >>