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Affective Education

  Affective education, intellectual education and academic education support need each other. At The New School we make time for all of them. What is affective education?  Areas of affective growth which we are actively working to support are: Positive self-image concerned with developing a realistic self-awareness Decision making, the ability to evaluate alternatives Coping Read More >>

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Simple Machines

Students in grades 5-8 participated in a simple machines unit.  Our class started this unit by defining terms that had to do with simple machines and looking at cartoons drawn by Rube Goldberg to finding simple machines in his silly and complex drawings. During another class we watched a Myth Busters video about pulling out Read More >>

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Water Cycle

In our science class with students in grades 3 and 4, we studied the water cycle. This unit focuses on how water exists in our world and how it transforms from phase to phase.We explored how water exists in nature as a solid, a liquid and a gas. In this unit we have read two books Read More >>

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Graphing Centers

In Math class, our youngest students have been working on developing and reading pictographs and bar graphs. We made several graphs from scratch and analyzed existing graphs. This helps the students to identify things like the most, the least and things that have the same amount.  They learned significant new terms such as data, key and Read More >>

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The Littles Book Club

In our Book Club class we read and discussed the book “The Littles” by John Peterson. Our focus during this Book Club was on reading comprehension. The students in class were reading but were having difficulty recalling what they had read. We worked on strategies to help with the understanding of the book. During this Read More >>

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Biography Class

  Recently in biography class students have been researching different figures from Colonial Times. Each of the students in class was assigned a different person and wrote a narrative paragraph from that person’s perspective. Students worked on perspective writing and adding detail. They also worked on peer editing where they gave each other feedback before Read More >>

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Math Centers – Place Value 2018

For most of the second part of this school year, the youngest children have been working on two digit place value. We started off counting up from the bottom of our board and looked at the numbers from 0-9. Of course they were all familiar with those numbers. Then, we added 10 on top of Read More >>

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Raisin in the Sun

The oldest group of students were part of a book club where they read Lorraine Hansberry’s play, “Raisin in the Sun.” Over a period of a month, the students met once a week to discuss. Students were instructed to prepare a Discussion question. The resulting conversations showed high levels of insight and understanding. For the second half Read More >>

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Silk Road

This spring the oldest students started a unit on the Silk Road. The four objectives of this unit included being able to identify the major physical features that hindered travel between China and Europe. To discover how ideas, cultures and goods were exchanged through the Silk Road. Relate the ideas of trade and globalization to today. Compare Read More >>

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Peter Spier Author Study

This spring the younger students, K-4, did an author study of Peter Spier. Peter Spier was a Dutch-born illustrator and author of more than thirty children’s books. We read Bored – Nothing to Do, which is about two brothers who build an airplane out of spare parts around the house. We also read Oh, Were Read More >>