Our children, our students, live in a world that has developed all kinds of media and ways to transmit information, disinformation, ideas, and images. They hear the media, adults, other peers talking about events and opinions as they move through their days. Some of these ideas are exciting and innovative, others are darker and disturbing. Read More >>
Salt Museum Field Trip 2012
The whole school visited The Salt Museum which is located in Onondaga Lake Park. This is without doubt one of the best local field trips for elementary school children. Ghost Maggie brought the history of the Salt Industry in Syracuse to life with her humor and knowledge. Ghost Maggie introduced the many ghosts (played by Read More >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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.
Rock Art
Rock Art Students transformed rocks into animals using acrylics
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 >>
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 >>