Feb. 9: Persuading Our Audience
Dear Third Grade Families, What an amazing first week of February we had. The weather has become nippy again, but that can’t stop us from all of our learning! Writing We are working on how to write multiple paragraphs in a persuasive speech. We recognized that the work we’d been doing for the first two weeks of writing was actually just for our introduction! In persuasive writing, the paragraphs are broken down in the following way: Introduction A hook sentence to snap the audience into your speech A thesis statement about what your speech is about An important person or... Read More
Week 22: Monday, February 5th – Friday, February 9th
Advisory: Dear parents, This week in Advisory we practiced using three different methods to unwind: Mindful Coloring, Journaling, and Yoga. The students enjoyed the session very much! We would like to encourage you to use any of these methods at home with your children. Hebrew: Dear parents, This week, both groups were hard at work reviewing the Past tense. We reviewed the various groups of conjugations in the Paal, Piel and Hitpael structures in the past tense. Next week, the students will have... Read More
February 5th – February 9th
Math 7X have been working on a challenging unit this week, “Number Patterns.” They will be taking their unit test on Tuesday, February 13th, and will begin a new unit starting next week, “Coordinates and Linear Graphs.” In this unit they will learn to construct the Cartesian coordinate system and state the coordinates of points on it, plot a graph of a set of ordered pairs, draw the graph of a linear relationship, define linear relationships between two variables, and find the slopes of linear graphs. 7Y have been working on a new unit, “Coordinates and Linear Graphs.” Apart from... Read More
6th Grade News: 2/5 – 2/9/18
Special announcement: During the month of Adar, the month of Purim, it is a tradition to do things that make us happy. To get ourselves into the Purim spirit, all teachers, staff, and students should come to school in pajamas on Thursday, February 15th (Rosh Chodesh Adar – or the first day of the month of Adar)! Please note, that the date on the physical school calendar says Friday, February 16th, but there has been a change of date. Students must wear shoes or slippers. If your child has PE on Thursdays, please remember to send him/her with a pair of sneakers. SCIENCE This week, students continued exploring... Read More
5th Grade Week of 2/5
What a great week in 5th grade! Please enjoy the updates below, and have a great weekend! Special announcement: During the month of Adar, the month of Purim, it is a tradition to do things that make us happy. To get ourselves into the Purim spirit, all teachers, staff, and students should come to school in pajamas on Thursday, February 15th (Rosh Chodesh Adar – or the first day of the month of Adar)! Please note, that the date on the physical school calendar says Friday, February 16th, but there has been a change of date. Students must wear shoes or slippers. If your child has PE... Read More
Kindness and Finishing First Chapter in Chumash!
Community Building This week we focused on our school value of chesed, or kindness, and read the book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes to see examples of kind and unkind behavior. Each child received a cut out of a heart and every time they heard a character tease another in the story, they had to fold the heart. At the end of the story, second graders were told to unfold their hearts and make them as smooth as they were at the beginning of the story. Sure enough, we found the task impossible! We noticed that the hearts were all wrinkled.... Read More
First Grade News
We had a blast on our trip to the National Museum of Mathematics this week! Check out our pictures below. This week first grade writers picked a piece to be published next week. They learned how to use pictures to add more information to their teaching books, and started to edit their pieces. We also started to plan for our class publishing party. So far, we are thinking that we will share our stories and have a dance party! As part of our Social Studies unit on mapping, first graders became cartographers and made maps of the first... Read More
Delet P’tucha, Winter Olympics and more!
Dear Kindergarten Families, We had a wonderful week in Kindergarten! It was fun welcoming you into our classrooms for Delet P’tucha and sharing our learning with you. In Math, we have been learning about counting and comparing numbers and sets of objects up to 100. We practiced deciding whether an item could be counted or not (grains of sand vs marbles) and counting them to compare whether there are less or more. We also introduced the Winter Olympic Games in our Math class and did many fun activities related to math and winter sports (patterns, graphs, counting, and much more!).... Read More
Early February
Hello Fourth Grade Families! It’s hard to believe we are fast approaching February break! If you know that your child will be missing school next week (or after vacation ends), please let your fourth grade teachers know ahead of time. Students are very excited for the upcoming Talent Show on Thursday, February 15. Parents are cordially invited to attend, and we hope we will see you there! That same day is also Rosh Chodesh Adar, the month of joy and reversal of fortune, and in its honor we will hold our annual Pajama Day! Looking forward to our topsy-turvy Thursday!... Read More