Our Eighth Grade students are preparing to branch out into the wide world of high school. In order help in this transition, many students have spent a day at the local public school, McCaskey. They have been shadowing current students and experiencing all their classes. That way they can get a good idea of what… [Read more…]
February 26, 2012
Commercials sometimes make you do things that you don’t necessarily want to do – you end up doing them (like buying something) anyway without thinking about it. The third graders in Robin and Sandra’s class at The New School of Lancaster recently have been studying media. With the help of Peter Eash-Scott, they learned about… [Read more…]
February 26, 2012
All of the 7th graders and Melanie are reading the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding. This book is about a group of boys that crash-land on an island. The main characters include Ralph, the chief, Jack, a hunter and head of the choir, and Piggy, a boy on the island that kind… [Read more…]
February 26, 2012
This winter, the Middle School students of the New School of Lancaster had a chance to express themselves in movement classes. The first two weeks in February instead of spending PE with Jeanine on Tuesdays, the students met in the big room for a movement class with Tracy Davis, who is also a parent at… [Read more…]
February 26, 2012
SYP stands for Sixth Year Project. Every sixth grader at the New School of Lancaster has to do an SYP. Students pick a topic that interests them and they write a 9 page paper on ithat topic. Students also create a power point to go along with an oral presentation. Sarah from Gloria and Amanda’s… [Read more…]
February 26, 2012
Early this month the Middle School students at the New School of Lancaster took a trip to Buchanan Park for a couple hours to have some rousing matches of soccer. They set up cones for boundaries and goals. The goals were small and, thus, goalkeepers were not allowed. Students were split into two teams. They… [Read more…]
February 26, 2012
On Friday, of January 10, the Seventh and Eighth Grade Class made soup and visited a museum. In the morning, we entered the kitchen and prepared a squash, kale, and onion soup, as well as sour dough cinnamon rolls. The Eighth Graders chopped up the ingredients for the soup, started boiling them and kneaded the… [Read more…]
February 24, 2012
The Scholastic Writing Competition is an annual event that draws thousands of entrants nationwide. This year, twelve New School Middle School Students submitted short stories and six of them received awards. On Friday, February 3, awards were presented to all of the winners and three of our students attended. The ceremony was anticipated to take… [Read more…]
February 7, 2012
Every year, the Middle School Class at the New School of Lancaster enters the annual Scholastic Writing Competition. This year, six students from our class won awards. The awards won were silver keys and an honorable mention. The students that received silver keys were Charlotte, Katherine, Melanie, Savannah, and Lucas. The student that received an… [Read more…]
February 7, 2012
During the month of January the New School has been hopping with activity, and many exciting things have happened or are being prepared for. Here is a list of just a few of these things. Art – Gwen has been hanging all sorts of art work all around the school. The school is dripping with… [Read more…]
February 26, 2012
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