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The Water Cycle

We began our study of the water cycle by identifying where we can find water throughout the earth. Did you know that about 97% of the earth’s water is salt water? And that most of the fresh water is frozen in glaciers and the polar ice caps? As we continued learning about evaporation, condensation, and 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. We discussed the months of the year and did an activity where we did all the cycles in a year from the month we were Read More >>

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Native American Tribes

In our westward expansion class, we moved from learning about Americans traveling west to find a new life and settle in uncharted (to them) territory, to who was already living in these western lands.  We started by reading aloud and discussing such books as The Warrior Maiden (A Hopi Legend) and Children of the Wind Read More >>

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MacKennan Graziano

“Attending the New School helped foster a love of learning that has stuck with me throughout my academic and professional career. It was a truly unique learning experience that encouraged me to engage deeply with my academic work (especially my love of reading), be curious, and express myself. The New School emphasizes self-directed learning, a Read More >>

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Animal Habitat 2

To finish up our Animal Habitat unit each child created a collage of an animal in its habitat. First they had to decide where the horizon line was going to be. Then what time of day they wanted to depict. Some picked night, some sunset, or mid-day. After finishing the sky they worked on the Read More >>

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Story Soup

Many a white page has been known to cause “writer’s block.” At The New School we recently tried something new. During Read Aloud we are reading “Sweep: The story of a girl and her monster” to the older children. Early in the book Nan, the main character. reminisces about happy days. Her  Sweep collects lost Read More >>

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Leah Patriarco

I believe I am the oldest alum of the New School. I attended the New School its very first year and was the oldest of the inaugural class. Just a couple weeks ago, when visiting my family in Syracuse, I passed the original building and my sister (also an alum) and I started recounting stories. Read More >>

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Martin Welych-Flanagan

The education style and encouraging atmosphere of the New School is unique and helps reveal everyone’s potential. Instead of putting people in classes based on arbitrary age denominations, classes were based on our abilities in that specific subject. For example, I was in a simpler English class, but I was in more advanced math and Read More >>

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Shannon Zory

Years at The New School : 2   High School : FM High School College attended: OCC (Music Major) The New School was an awesome place to be able to explore my different creative interests, learn new things, and meet great people. Their approach to learning is very inclusive and varied, on any given day we would be writing creatively, Read More >>

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Open Hand Theater’s The Loneliest Snowflake

Our younger students attended a performance on December 4, of The Loneliest Snowflake at Open Hand Theater. The play was co-written by one of our own students, Amelia. The children loved getting a back stage view of the theater and the craft activity that followed the performance.