Time Travel at The New School To introduce our Local History unit all the children at The New School were sent home a different historical postcard of a Syracuse scene. The postcards were dated from the 1920’s to 1930’s. Using Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), students were asked to look at the postcard and list as Read More >>
Archives for February 2012
Valentine’s Day
Nothing like Valentines to challenge us to transform a shopping bag into a favorite animal.
13 Colonies
After studying the early explorers to the New World we turned our attention to the people who decided to settle in the New World – the early colonists. Each student was assigned one of the 13 colonies to research the answers to a number of questions. First they had to learn where Read More >>