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The Dragonling Book Club

Sometimes doing what is right is not what is easy. Four of our younger students are learning about this through the book The Dragonling by Jackie French Koller. Here students try to put themselves in the shoes of the young boy in the book, Darek, who is going against the wishes of his village in Read More >>

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Worms are Fun

What fun our youngest students had learning about worms! We were lucky to have live worms to study and draw this fall. We observed how worms moved and dug their tunnels. We also conducted an experiment to see whether worms like to be in the light or dark and wet or dry. Although some of Read More >>

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Wonderful Water

Molly Molecule is a song that you may hear around the New School in the coming weeks. She is made of H2O (which is water you know). Stay tuned for more about Molly and her adventures in the water cycle as we learn in science class about where we find water in the world, and Read More >>

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Worms

Students in grade 2 spent 6 weeks observing worms and their behavior. First we predicted whether worms prefer light or dark, prefer moist or dry areas, and how they react to touch and then we set up experiments each week and watched them. We witnessed within minutes that worms like dark and moist surroundings. Together Read More >>

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Light

A good question can lead us to a lot of learning. How do you see with your eye?We started our 6 week unit studying the human eye. Each week we learned about a new feature of the eye. So far we have learned about the iris, the pupil, the lens, muscle, retina and optic nerve. Read More >>

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Water Cycle

Over the last five weeks second graders were part of a science unit learning about the water cycle. Students have been learning about three parts of the water cycle: evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. Students learned a song to help them remember which way the water moves in each phase of the water cycle. During this Read More >>

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Probability

For six weeks in September and October students in grades 4 to 7 were part of a class learning about probability. We started the unit by having a mystery bag in which there were ten cubes. Students had to pull out one cube at a time and then put the cube back; they did this Read More >>

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Book Club: Tuck Everlasting

Many of the older students have been reading the book Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. Each time the book club met the students were given a set of questions on a bookmark that went with the next section of reading. Students were challenged to look beyond the text and search for answers to questions. Lively Read More >>

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Writing Workshop: Living Forever

The fourth through eighth graders have been working on a writing piece based off the novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. In the story the main character is faced with a challenge to drink from a spring that could make her live forever. Students were asked to choose whether or not they would want to Read More >>

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How Many Seeds are in a Pumpkin?

K +1st grade students explored how many seeds are inside a pumpkin.  We started out by reading part of the book How Many Seeds are in a Pumpkin by Margaret McNamara.  After we read about how the class in the book got messy and goopy emptying out pumpkins, we estimated how many seeds we thought were in Read More >>