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 >>
Rigamajig
A part of every afternoon at The New School is a time called Investigations. During this hour children can choose between several activities: art studio, construction materials, strategy games, or Read More >>
Highland Forest Fall 2018
Twice a year, for the past 20+ years, teachers have taken students camping to Highland Forest. These two days in the fall and spring are so important to building community. Read More >>
Printing Class All Year
At the start of the school year, children in kindergarten worked on writing upper case letters of the alphabet. We have now moved on to lower case letters! During each Read More >>
Ramps
During Investigations the youngest children at our school explored inclined planes using ramps. They rolled marbles down ramps and measured the distances each marble rolled. They varied the slope of Read More >>
Measurement
A group of children in grades 1 though 3 explored how humans measure their world! We started with length and using yard sticks, meter sticks, tape measures and rulers we measured objects 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 >>
Rigamajig
The Rigamajig is a new large-scale building kit conceived for hands-on free play and learning. This unique toy was conceived and designed as a custom play feature for the High Line Read More >>
Investigations
Investigations is scheduled every afternoon from 1:30pm until 2:25pm. Most children will say this is the best part of the day, running neck and neck with gym or outdoor play! Read More >>
Centers for our youngest students
Centers are an important part of the day for Kindergarten and First Grade students. Every day they participate in at least one language arts, math and gross/fine motor center. Children Read More >>