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Ancient Egypt for middle grades

For our study of Ancient Egypt we started learning about its geography and where Egypt was located. Children drew maps and located the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, the Nile, Sahara Desert, Europe, Upper Egypt, Lower Egypt and Giza. We asked the question, “How do we know what we know about Ancient Egypt?” Children working with Read More >>

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Art Rage

At the end of October students in grades 38 visited Artrage Gallery to see a wonderful exhibit, HELEN ZUGHAIB: Stories My Father Told Me. The artist created 25 paintings that “correspond to one of her father’s stories about his childhood in Damascus and young adulthood in Lebanon. The stories about traditions of village life, morals and finally stories Read More >>

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Ancient Egypt Older Students

This was five-day unit on ancient Egyptian beliefs taught by our student teacher. We focused on their religion because it was such a large part of every aspect of ancient Egyptian life. We focused a lot on how all ancient Egyptians did things in their daily life to please their gods and to increase their Read More >>

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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 >>