by newschoolsyr | Jun 11, 2022 | 2021-2022, language arts
This year 8 of the students at the New School worked with the student teacher, Amelia, during the book club for “The Secret Soldier”. This book was about a woman, Deborah, who lived in the colonies during the revolutionary war time period. Deborah wanted to have...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 1, 2022 | 2021-2022, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, Social Studies, Uncategorized
Students in 2nd – 4th grade participated in a class this spring about the American Revolution. Students listened to and discussed the books such as: Sam the Minuteman, George the Drummer Boy, Can’t You Make them Behave King George and Phoebe the Spy. They have...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 26, 2022 | 2021-2022, visual arts, whole school
Throughout the year children at The New School participate in school wide art projects. One of the first projects this year was “Cube Art” which used cardboard cubes, aka boxes. Each student decided on an overarching idea and drew a group of six related pictures. We...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 28, 2022 | 2021-2022, grade 1, Kindergarten, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts, Uncategorized, youngest students
Some of the youngest students listened to the book Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews. After listening to the book, counting dots and discussing each page, students worked hard on making their own Ten Blue Dots Book. During each class, students get to work on a page or...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 28, 2022 | 2021-2022, grade 1, Kindergarten, Kindergarten and 1st grade, science, science K-1, Uncategorized, youngest students
Learning about Iron Filings Over the last few months, all of the kindergarten and first graders have been in a magnet class during Investigations that was a total of five classes. The groups were split up into two groups and they met about once a week. This class was...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 11, 2022 | 2021-2022, grade 3, grade 4, science
This fascinating investigation was created by Larry Schafer, the amazing science educator at Syracuse University. It starts with a box wrapped up as a gift. In the box is a letter from Bugso, challenging the class to become scientists and discover as much as they can...
