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Eric Carle Author’s Study

Recently at snack time, the students have been exploring the different styles of author/illustrator Leo Lionni and Eric Carle. The students with desks upstairs have been reading and discussing the similarities in styles of Lionni books such as Tico’s Golden Wings, Fish is Fish and Pezzettino. One of the themes that students discovered is that 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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Nature in the Neighborhood with Brett

On Friday afternoons all the children had a chance to make a microscopic slide, put it on the stage, focus the microscope and change the magnification of the microscope. They were then asked to draw the images they saw. Older children used stains (iodine and onion cells) to make their slides more visible. Our goal Read More >>

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Howard Gardner

This fall we wanted to generate a discussion based on Howard Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligences. We started off the discussion asking the question, “What do we mean by intelligence?” which led to an animated discussion about how everyone has strengths and weaknesses.  We talked about how one goal of The New School is to Read More >>

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Daily Journal Time

Everyday children have half an hour of writing time. Sometimes this is used for printing practice, phonemic  instruction, spelling, and writing workshop. Every week children have time for free writing.  Children can choose to write by hand, use an alphasmart or type on the computer. Younger children can dictate their stories.

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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.