5th Grade Week of 2/26
What a week! We hope you had a restful break, and that you enjoy the updates from this week! Happy Purim! HUMANITIES: It was a busy week coming back from break! In Humanities, we planned and began writing opinion essays on Tuck Everlasting. In Social Studies, we presented our Dynasty Projects from before break, and explored the history and impact of the Silk Road. I hope everyone had a fun Purim!-Tony JUDAICS: This week was so much fun with Purim! We learned the text that we used during the Megillah reading... Read More
Feb 29- Mar 2
Hebrew This week students summarized our unit about smartphones and technology by coming up with ideas for creating an app that would help society or the environment. We also started out new unit “Only in Israel”, we spoke about some Israeli inventions as well as behavior and manners you would only see in Israel. Shabbat shalom, Yehuda Judaic Studies This week we looked at mishnayot about one of the mitzvot of Purim — hearing the megillah. What is the essence of this mitzvah? What matters more, understanding the story or hearing it in Hebrew? Would it be better for Hannah... Read More
6th Grade News: 2/26 – 3/2/18
HUMANITIES This week in Literature, we completed several activities to wrap up our study of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. In order to better imagine the lives of characters in the book, students wrote letters from the perspectives of African American citizens living in the South during the 1930s. They wrote about their struggles living under particular Jim Crow laws, which enforced segregation in parks, restaurants, schools, and other public spaces. I’m looking forward to reading their letters, and I’m hopeful that this exercise helped build the students’ sense of empathy and understanding of persecution. In History, we dug deeper... Read More
Happy Purim and Happy March!!
Dear Third Grade Families, March has come in like a lion, with it’s wacky weather! Over the next four weeks, we’ll see if it goes out like a lamb. For reading, we are working on a new Book Club system. In writing, we are coming to an end of our persuasive speech unit. In social studies, this week, we ended out New Amsterdam study by talking about the first Jews to come to New York in 1654 and started learning about the Erie Canal! As well, we had a BLAST celebrating Purim with our 7th Grade Buddies! READING: In reading,... Read More
First Grade: Week of February 26th
Happy Purim! We had a fun filled week in first grade. On Monday we celebrated the 100th day of school. The Kindergarten, first, and second grade classes got together to do different activities all about the number 100. They built structures with 100 Legos, played math games, and wrote 100 reasons they love our school. In Writing Workshop, we used our pretending skills to begin writing realistic fiction stories. First graders thought of pretend characters, gave them a name, and imagined adventures for their characters. In Math we learned about larger numbers and reviewed place value. We read “Trombone Shorty”... Read More
Celebrating Purim
Celebrating Purim This week has been filled with so much Purim learning and celebrations! Yadut: Making Class Megillah In Yahadut class we read the Purim story in Hebrew. After, each student picked one scene to explore more deeply. They did five things with the scene: Gave it a title, copied the words from the megillah that describe it highlighting key words, recorded the source, illustrated it, and composed speech or thought bubbles for the characters in the scene in Hebrew. We compiled all the scenes together to create a class megillah, and on Purim we had a class telling of... Read More
Week 24: Monday, February 26th – Friday, March 2nd
Advisory: Dear parents, This week in advisory we the students acted out various situations that happen in school and then discussed what human needs did the characters in the skit have and if the needs were met. Hebrew: The 8th grade has finalized the review of past tense and started reviewing the future tense. The students enjoyed practicing the past tense by leading conversations about their childhood. I wish you a relaxing weekend, Andreea Heritage: הורים יקרים, השבוע למדנו סיפורים קצרים ברוח חג פורים, התלמידים דנו בשאלות מוסריות שקשורות בחג ובערכים של בית ספר. החל משבוע הבא נעסוק ביחידה חדשה... Read More
Purim Week
Hello Fourth Grade Families! We had a wonderful time celebrating Purim with our students and parent guests yesterday! Thank you to everyone who could attend. It’s hard to believe (especially since we only just got back from February break), but Pesach is only four weeks away! We are very busy learning and preparing for Pesach, while also enjoying some upcoming events, including our Field Trip to Plymouth Church on Tuesday, March 13. A reminder to parents to sign up for Parent Teacher Conferences, which take place on March 15 (and in the evening of March 19). Thank you! Shabbat Shalom!... Read More
Happy Purim!
Dear Kindergarten Families, What an exciting and busy week we had in Kindergarten! We started on Monday by celebrating the 100th Day of School. We were excited to welcome Wren’s mom to teach us about being a vet for letter V. We also had lots of fun dressing up and celebrating Purim! And, on Friday, we had a Drum Circle presented by an amazing company called Musical IQ! You can see a video of our Purim Parade and other fun photos on the Hannah Senesh Facebook Page here (6:30 minute) In Math, we have been learning about comparing and combining... Read More