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Shove Park 2012

  A big tradition for The New School each year is an end of the year picnic at Shove Park. This year the weather was spectacular and children spent the day building dams in the creek, reading, playing, and taking the creek walk down to the waterfall. Alumni are always invited. We loved seeing Evelyn, Read More >>

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Teachers Giving Gifts 2012

On the last day of school each child came home with two important things. A memory box from the teachers, celebrating something important about the past year, and a letter that articulates the depth of each child’s achievement. Often children will focus on the memory box, but the letter is the most important part. We Read More >>

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Children making and giving gifts

Every year children randomly are assigned another student to make a gift for. When they present their gifts they share an appreciation which explains why they made the gift. In the picture above a child is being presented with a handmade joke book. Other gifts included a board game about whales, a model of a Read More >>

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Shakespeare visits

Shakespeare visited the school to share his life story, to answer questions and to listen to the older students recite their monologues from Macbeth, Midsummers Night’s Dream, The Tempest  and Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare also listened to a song students wrote and admired the replica of The Globe which they designed and built. ShakespeareWritten by Read More >>

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Chittenango Landing

Chittenango Landing Originally uploaded by New School-SyracuseTo support our study of local history the whole school visited Chittenango Landing where we some of the things we learned about archeological digs, what it was like to live on a canal boat and how canal boats were brought into a dry dock and repaired.

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Rock Art

Rock Art Students transformed rocks into animals using acrylics

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Map-it on Ipads

What on earth?!  Alan (Ben and Greer’s dad) taught us how to use the ipads he brought in, to make our mark in mapmaking.  Now we know how to find the school, and our own house, spreading the image to even ‘drive’ the route home.  We went outside to take pictures with the ipads, of Read More >>

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Electricity!

The second graders have started to explore electricity this spring in their science class.  As a start to this unit, we have been exploring static electricity using plastic wrap and paper towels.  We’ve discussed, explored and read about positive and negative charges atracting and the students have had a blast!  What we enjoyed watching the Read More >>

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Read Aloud

At the end of every day, we schedule time for Read Aloud. During this time a teacher reads to a small group of students.  Students often choose to draw in their sketchbooks as they listen. The groups change according to the book we read. At the beginning of the year we split into two mixed Read More >>

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Science Celebration 2012

Each year all students present a science experiment or research study at our Science Celebration. While the older children do most of their work at home, the youngest students work on their projects at school. This year children shared what they had learned from a unit where we studied Heat. Working with one or two Read More >>