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Weight & Volume

            Our student teacher, Taylor, taught students in grades K-1 a math class on weight and volume. Students began with weight. During the first class, Read More >>

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Book Club: Fever, 1793

            Over the last five weeks, our student teacher, Taylor, has been conducting a book club with five students. The students read the novel, Fever, 1793 Read More >>

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Insectapolooza Mystery Gest

Mike Wolfin, a graduate student from Cornell’s Department of Entomology, was a recent “Mystery Guest” at The New School. As a spokesperson for Insectapolooza, he brought with him a stick Read More >>

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Mystery Guest – Hartwood Farmers

“Two mystery guests in one week,” the children shouted with glee! Our second mystery guests of the week were Matt Robinson and Maryellen Sheehan, farmers and owners of Hartwood Farm. Read More >>

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B.F.G Read Aloud

Our youngest children (kindergarten and 1st) loved listening to Johnna, our student teacher,  reading The B.F.G. by  Roald Dahl. This is a fantasy story that explores the B.F.G.’s kidnapping of Read More >>

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Letters Home

 This fall, students in 3rd through 6thgrades were introduced to letter writing by our student teacher, Johnna. Students began by exploring the elements of a friendly letter; including the heading, Read More >>

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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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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 >>