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Butternut Creek 2020

At The New School we work hard to bring our curriculum alive, and to take our students out into the community for hands on learning experiences. This fall, as we started learning about fresh water biomes, we took our students in grades 4 – 7 to explore Butternut Creek. Nothing quite like donning a pair Read More >>

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Systemic Racism

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 >>

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Animal Classification Part 2

If you need a reminder, check out the Part one description from last semester.   This project was designed as a year long project with time as one of our tools.  Another tool that The New School frequently utilizes is looking at the same big idea in multiple forms, and during multiple times of a Read More >>

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Wildflower Romp

  Our younger students joined other children on a Wildflower Romp at DeWitt Library in early June. They explored the meadow behind the library that is full of many kinds of wildflowers and were encouraged to pick all the flowers they wanted. With an assortment of art supplies available, the children used their flowers to create Read More >>

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We Rise Above the Streets Field Trip

Through our Making the World a Better Place unit, students in grades 4 – 8 got to participate in a morning of service for the organization: We Rise Above the Streets.   At the organization’s office, students helped pack bags of personal hygiene items that would be handed out to homeless and food insecure individuals Read More >>

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Enterprise America Field Trip

This fall students in grades 4-8 got a chance to participate in a WCNY program called Enterprise America.  Students got to run a simulated city for a day. Each student was assigned a job and given tasks on how to complete that job.  Students also had to manage their paychecks, pay health insurance and figure Read More >>

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Making the World a Better Place

Children need to learn early that individuals can make a difference and shape society with their ideas and actions. All year we have been learning about ways individuals have succeeded in this endeavor. Children have learned that change can be immediate but it can also take a long time. Each week we read books or Read More >>

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Rodin: The Human Experience

Six students expressed an interested in going to view SU’s Rodin: The Human Experience show. The objective of this field trip was to draw the sculptures on display.

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Community Library of Dewitt

Our kindergarten students join the library’s story time every week. Attending are about ten children ranging in age from 2 to 5 year olds. The librarian reads a couple of stories interspersed with songs, and/or actions. After the story time the librarian brings out various toys for the children to play with. For example magnet Read More >>

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Invisible People Field Trip

Nine of our oldest students visited Art Rage Gallery on Thursday October 18, 2018 to see the exhibit INVISIBLE PEOPLE: Portraits of the Homeless by Neil Shigley. “San Diego based artist Neil Shigley’s work explores the subject of homelessness by giving visibility to homeless individuals through large-scale portraits. “I have focused my art on capturing Read More >>