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Emerald Atlas

This spring, students in grades 4-7 participated in a book club for The Emerald Atlas(Books of Beginning) by John Stephens.  We began this class by creating group discussion rules that Read More >>

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Enterprise America Field Trip

This fall students in grades 4-8 got a chance to participate in a WCNY program called Enterprise America.  Students got to run a simulated city for a day. Each student Read More >>

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Inventions

Students in grades 4th-8th participated in a science class this winter that explored and created inventions. We started this unit by reading a book called What Can You Do With Read More >>

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Take Apart

A small group of the oldest students have been participating in Take Apart, a science class connected to the Electromagnetism and Invention classes. Before the “taking apart” happened, the students Read More >>

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Government

In January the oldest students started a “Government” unit. For three-months we have studied the needs and rights of individuals, the rights of a community and different forms of government Read More >>

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James Pass Arboretum Project

Over the summer of 2014, teachers at The New School decided that the older students would take part in a year-long study of trees, where they would learn about tree Read More >>

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Book Club: Two Tickets to Freedom

The oldest students have all read Two Tickets to Freedom: The True Story of Ellen and William Craft, Fugitive Slaves by Florence B. Freedman. This has been part of their social Read More >>

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Margaret Bourke-White Field Trip

On Thursday, October 16, 2014, nineteen of our oldest students visited Syracuse University’s campus to view Margaret Bourke White’s exhibit of 180 vintage photographs taken in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Read More >>