Our children, our students, live in a world that has developed all kinds of media and ways to transmit information, disinformation, ideas, and images. They hear the media, adults, other Read More >>
Advocacy in Action
Sriharsh Gowtham, a young activist, visited the New School at the end of the year. He came to share his political experiences in New Hampshire where he worked hard to Read More >>
Multiplication and Division
Students in the middle grades have been working on division and multiplication using our TERC series of Investigations books. We’ve explored the number chart with skip counting, played games like Read More >>
Glimpses of After School at The New School
APRIL We studied branches cut from a great variety of shrubs and trees, making drawings and labeling them as we thought about how they were different and how they were Read More >>
Poetry: Powerful Thoughts in Tiny Packages,
Inspired by Lucy Calkins’ Poetry: Powerful Thoughts in Tiny Packages, the youngest children explored writing poetry. The unit starts with a poetry museum, which asks children to write about objects Read More >>
Socrates Trial
Socrates was found innocent! At his trial at The New School, our children rewrote history. The re-enactment of the trial of Socrates marked the culmination of three months studying Ancient Read More >>
Lewis and Clark
Our Lewis and Clark unit began with a Visual Thinking Strategy (VTS) exercise using a map showing the Louisiana Purchase. Then we discussed President Thomas Jefferson’s instructions to Lewis & Read More >>
Mesopotamia
This fall, the middle group of students studied Mesopotamia. They began their study by looking at the differences between settled and nomadic people. Outdoors, they participated in a role play Read More >>
Building Number Sense and Mathematical Thinking
Five of our youngest children took part in a TERC Investigations math unit on Building Number Sense and Mathematical Thinking. An integral part of this unit is having students Read More >>
Ramps
Children in grades Kindergarten through Second Grade have been exploring ramps in science one afternoon a week. We started by discussing what a ramp was and what it might be Read More >>
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