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Calder’s Circus

Step Right Up! The whole school spent this fall learning about the circus. We read books like, You See a Circus, I see….” by Mike Downs, Peter Spier’s Circus, Circus Read More >>

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Cubist Portraits

This project started in February with a slide show of Pablo Picasso’s cubist portraits. As always the children had amazing observations about color, geometric shapes and unusual perspectives. Each student Read More >>

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Alphabet Books

Doug Dubois, father of Cyrus, introduced us to the fascinating work of MacArthur Fellow, Wendy Ewald who began fostering literacy via photography and storytelling with children in the 1970s. Together Read More >>

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Art at The New 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. Read More >>

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Local History

Each child at The New School was given a replica of an old postcard of a Syracuse scene. Postcards showed parks, downtown scenes, and places of interest such as Oakwood 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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Teaching and Learning through Games

Why do we play games?  What do they accomplish for teaching and learning? We have games for math, language arts, social studies, science and strategy.  We have games for inside Read More >>

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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 >>

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Making the World a Better Place

We spent the first half of the year being inspired by people like Ghandi, Wangari, and Malala, and their stories of how they made the world a better place. We Read More >>