by newschoolsyr | May 8, 2016 | 2015-2016, grades 6-8, language arts
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” Robert Frost. Kenneth Koch published his Rose, Where Did you Get That Red? in 1973 to enormous acclaim. His book revolutionized the way children are taught to read and write...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 21, 2016 | 2015-2016, language arts
With our student teacher, Erica, students of mixed ages have been taking a class called VTS. We look at a picture, and silently write about what’s going on in the picture, what we see that makes us say that, and what more we can find in the picture. We have been...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 21, 2016 | 2015-2016, language arts
This February and March, students in a 5th and 6th Grade book club read Gloria Whelan’s book about arranged marriage in India, Homeless Bird. Before we began reading, we watched a short video to expose us to what is going to happen in the book, and we identified...
by newschoolsyr | Mar 18, 2016 | 2015-2016, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts, youngest students
As children develop an awareness of letters, and the sounds they make, they also have to learn how to form letters smoothly and automatically, writing from the top of the letter to the bottom. This year our youngest children have enjoyed a variety of classes where...
by newschoolsyr | Feb 24, 2016 | 2015-2016, grade 1, Kindergarten and 1st grade, language arts, Social Studies, youngest students
Students in Kindergarten and First Grade have been learning about the culture of India through the use of the book Count Your Way Through India by Jim Haskins. We started at one and learned about how to say this number in Hindi and about the amazing banyan tree....
by newschoolsyr | Feb 24, 2016 | 2015-2016, grade 2, language arts, language arts grade 2
The second graders are THRILLED to be learning cursive this year. They started off with the clock climbers group – a, c, d, g, and q and have now moved on to the kite strings – i, t, u, p, s, j, o, r, and w. They have been working hard on forming their...
