We are working on short story structure: beginnings, middles, and ends. We have been discussing character motivation, dramatic conflict, and how to resolve things in an interesting and satisfying way. Read More >>
Cursive
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 Read More >>
Civil War Class Visits the Onondaga Historical Association
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 Read More >>
Layers of the Earth
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 Read More >>
Upper Case Printing
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 Read More >>
Native Americans and their Biomes
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 Read More >>
Highland Forest, October 2014
In many schools children are taken on camping field trips to celebrate the end of the year, as a reward you might say. At the New School we visit Highland Read More >>
Westcott Cultural Fair
The Westcott Cultural Fair is always a festive way to begin our school year. This year, during Investigations, the children, expressing their love for books, created signs to carry . Read More >>
James Pass Arboretum and our tree unit
The older students (ages 9 to 12) have embarked on a tree exploration. They started out looking at how trees grow – by observing their rings. We soon learned that Read More >>