by newschoolsyr | Apr 6, 2019 | 2018 - 2019, Kindergarten, math
Over the last few months the Kindergarten students explored counting, coins (pennies, nickels and dimes), measurement using standard units, and adding and subtracting using games and their workbooks. Students compared lengths of object using a ruler. They used a...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 9, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, Kindergarten, language arts, math
The Kindergartners listened to the book Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews. After reading, counting dots and discussing each page, students have been working on making their own Ten Blue Dots Book. During each class, students get to work on a page or two by drawing their...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 9, 2018 | 2018 - 2019, Kindergarten, math
Every day the Kindergarten students play games to practice their math skills. These games are played with a teacher or an older student. Children have been working on a number of skills including addition to ten. To practice these skills they have played games like...
by newschoolsyr | May 28, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, grade 1, Kindergarten, math
In Math class, our youngest students have been working on developing and reading pictographs and bar graphs. We made several graphs from scratch and analyzed existing graphs. This helps the students to identify things like the most, the least and things that have the...
by newschoolsyr | May 26, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, grade 1, math
For most of the second part of this school year, the youngest children have been working on two digit place value. We started off counting up from the bottom of our board and looked at the numbers from 0-9. Of course they were all familiar with those numbers. Then, we...
by newschoolsyr | Apr 27, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, math
A small group of students in first, second and third grade explored fractions using multiple representations of ONE. With parquetry pieces they considered the fractional parts of a hexagon. In the process they learned that the denominator means how many equal parts...
