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Dinosaurs

For a short while this year, we began a unit reading and thinking about dinosaurs with ouryoungest children during a weekly snack. To begin, we read a lovely book called DinosaurValley about a small Orodromeus family learning to find food and survive the larger meat eatingdinosaurs.  We followed that with Maia about Jack Horner’s discovery Read More >>

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Chicken Life Cycle

We received fertilized eggs from Farmer Jenn, along with an incubator. We talked about the difference between fertilized and unfertilized eggs. We discussed what made egg shells different colors and what makes an eggshell so strong (you can’t break it by squeezing it in your hand) but also fragile at the same time. We broke Read More >>

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Spelling Bee

At a student’s suggestion the New School has decided to start a mini spelling bee. We have students at a variety of ages and levels testing their spelling skills every week. They are using words that come from the school’s sight words as well as the official spelling bee list. The students are going to Read More >>

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Native American Class

The Native Americans class focused on the Iroquois tribe. We focused on the Iroquois tribe because it is right in our back door. The Onondaga nation is just south of Syracuse. We started with an overview of the Iroquois nation. They went over how stories were passed on, the six nations of the Iroquois, and Read More >>

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Human Body Spring Unit

Our Human Body class has turned into an opportunity for the students to discover how much our body systems contribute to everything we do in life. After discussing the Nervous system, we moved on to the respiratory system, where the students were able to construct their own pair of lungs and actually see the connection Read More >>

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Writing Workshop

Children in Kindergarten and First Grade participated in a writing class this spring where they “played” with words and pictures.  They worked on rhyming, fact & opinion and writing descriptive sentences.  Here are some examples of their writing.

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Lewis and Clark

From September to the end of October the Second and Third graders learned about the explorers who traveled across the United States to find a waterway to the Pacific Ocean. One of the first things that students learned was that it was that a large part of the U.S. was bought in the Louisiana Purchase. Read More >>

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Seven Minutes of Terror

This spring the three seventh graders participated in a class called Seven Minutes of Terror. The launch window for the Mars 2020 mission opened July 17 and closed Aug. 5, when Earth and Mars are in the proper positions in the solar system to enable a direct interplanetary journey. The rover was scheduled to land Read More >>