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St. Patrick’s Day Fun

Our leprechaun trap tradition was started many years ago by Dottie Mueller. Ever since the children spend two weeks creating inventive traps (the leprechauns say ingenious!) in the hope that those pesky leprechauns will come visit our school.  So far we haven’t succeeded, but the leprechauns come, create mayhem, get stuck and unstuck in their Read More >>

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Beaver Hike

Enjoying the drizzling rain our younger students had a wonderful time on our beaver walk. We were very lucky to have John Stella and Beth Moughty (Marina’s parents) as tour guides. John challenged us to search for signs of beaver and signs of spring. We counted four beaver dams in the feeder canal and a Read More >>

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Syracuse Local History

Time Travel at The New School To introduce our Local History unit all the children at The New School were sent home a different historical postcard of a Syracuse scene. The postcards were dated from the 1920’s to 1930’s. Using Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), students were asked to look at the postcard and list as Read More >>

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Joe Murphy, Fine Artist and Illustrator visits

It’s been a while since Joe Murphy graduated from SU, but he got some quick attention passing a sheet of his  X-Men trading cards around the circle of students, and a drop-jaw reaction to his own fanciful painting of a dog in a wizard’s hat.  As a kid, Joe was intrigued by his realization that Read More >>

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Artist Susan Keeter Visits

Illustrator and fine artist Susan Keeter, SU graduate and Syracuse resident, opened her workshop with a reading from the lyrical Honey Baby Sugar Child, by Alice Faye Duncan, while walking her illustrated pages around the circle of children. Susan then enlightened our young artists about the glories of Cray-Pas as a convenient substitute for oil Read More >>

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Anthony Salatino is Mystery Guest

Anthony Salatino became this year’s first Mystery Guest at The New School. Tony is the choreographer of Syracuse Stage’s production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Our smart children were able to figure out in 3 minutes why he was at the school and then Tony answered their questions.  Here are a few Read More >>

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Earth Day

Earth Day fell during April Break this year, so a week later we brainstormed ideas on what we could do to help care for the Earth. We came up with lots of ideas and ended up with students collecting trash, sweeping the parking lot, raking leaves, cleaning up flower beds and creating posters. We spent Read More >>

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Sledding

Martin, a fifth grader, proposed a day of sledding at school. Teachers took his idea and made it a reality. During investigations the whole school took off to the golf course down the road for an afternoon of fun! When we returned, we had cookies (made at school by the children a few days earlier) Read More >>

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Barnes and Noble 2010

Haleigh Originally uploaded by New School-Syracuse Children were invited to attend our Barnes and Noble poetry night. There was a great turn out of families. After the children took turns sharing their favorite poems they had opportunities to enjoy face painting and puppet making.

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Martin Welych-Flanagan

Humane Society of United States published this article about Martin in their September 13, 2010 issue.  Orders for his bracelets continue to pour in!