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Plant Class

Over the winter, we have been working in depth with plants. Topics included In class, we grew a bean plant from seed in dirt and a potato plant from a Read More >>

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Systemic Racism

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 >>

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Cycles of Change

  This winter, students in Kindergarten through Second Grade participated in a class on growing cycles.  We started this class out by talking about our cycles in our own lives. Read More >>

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The Seed Within

In this science class, the students read a book called “A Suitcase for Seeds.” The students were asked to make predictions about what they thought the seeds would look like, Read More >>

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Sink or Float?

Students in Kindergarten through Second Grade participated in a class where they explored items that would sink or float.  As scientists, they first made predictions on six different items and then Read More >>

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Chickens

The New School started housing fertilized chicken eggs on March 7th, and are watching them grown in an incubator day by day. We looked at this as a great opportunity Read More >>

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Biomes – Deserts

This spring the youngest students continued their study of Biomes which was started in the fall. Most recently we turned our attention to deserts. We read and discussed books such Read More >>

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Rain Forest

The eleven youngest students started the year learning about the Rain Forest. New concepts and vocabulary were introduced as they listened to and discussed the content of many books on Read More >>

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Science Celebration 2012

Each year all students present a science experiment or research study at our Science Celebration. While the older children do most of their work at home, the youngest students work Read More >>