by newschoolsyr | Nov 8, 2015 | 2015-2016, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts phonemic awareness
Our youngest students spent the first 6 weeks of school playing many games where they worked on identifying the sounds of letters in our alphabet. After giving them all a letter/sound assessment in October (see above) we decided they were ready to start a class...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 8, 2015 | 2015-2016, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts, language arts phonemic awareness
Four of our youngest students started a class in late October where they are using pictures to help them identify sounds in the words. For the activity each child draws a picture out a bag, identifies the letter the word begins with, writes the capital and lower case...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 8, 2015 | 2015-2016, affective education, whole school
Every year, and more than once a year, we facilitate discussions at school to help children understand the power of the words they use. Last week we asked children to consider the following quote. This discussion involved the entire school and had children in all...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 8, 2015 | 2015-2016, Community events, field trips, Grades 5 - 8, Social Studies
As part of our social studies unit on Government, the oldest students went on a field trip to Seneca Falls to learn more about the Women’s Rights Movement. They visited the Women’s Hall of Fame, which was opened in 1969. The Hall of Fame’s mission is to recognize the...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 6, 2015 | 2015-2016, Community events, field trips, Grades 5 - 8, language arts, middle school, Social Studies
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” In class we discussed the meaning of these words from...
