6th Grade News: 3/19 – 3/23/18
MATH Hope everyone is doing well and enjoyed the snow day this week! The sixth grade is working hard right before the break. In 6Y, they are starting a new unit in circles. We are learning about circumference and about the area of a circle. They are figuring out how to use the formula and they finally get the chance to play with a calculator, which they are very excited about. They will continue working on circles through the break. In 6X, they just started a new unit on speed and rate. They will be looking at how fast things... Read More
Passover 5778 Dvar Torah
By Fifth and Sixth Grade Judaic Studies Teacher Laura Marder Dor V’Dor, דור ודור, usually translated as “Generation to Generation” is a common phrase heard at Passover seders and throughout the Jewish year. It is often defined as the idea that the older generation passes ideas, history, values, and traditions down to the younger generation. This phrase ran through my mind as I walked down Smith Street on March 14th with a group of middle school students to join the National School Walkout gathering at Boerum Hall. As I watched for cars while we crossed busy intersections, I realized that... Read More
5th Grade Week of 3/19
What a week! Our students continued to strive towards meeting their academic goals and gaining new knowledge. Our 5A students took their first trip of the year to the Brooklyn Autism Center and met some new and unique friends. Have a good and restful weekend! HUMANITIES: Another successful week in Humanities! Students did an amazing job creating and administering their own activities in groups for our whole-class text. We continued learning about China, focusing on the Ming Dynasty and the era of exploration in medieval China. Have a good weekend!-Tony JUDAICS: This week we said goodbye to Dammara our wonderful... Read More
Worms and Passover Prep
Yahadut: Pesach Prep This week has been all about Pesach! We focused on the order of the seder, the seder plate items and their connections to the story, the various names of the holiday, and traits of characters from the story. Seder Ha’Seder Students learned to sing the order of the Seder in Hebrew with corresponding hand motions. The hand motions help us remember what is done at each step of the seder. Ask your child to teach your family the hand motions in advance of the seder, or have them lead this part at your family seder! Second grade... Read More
March 19 – March 23
Math It was lovely seeing you at the conferences last week! 7X this week finished and reviewed Unit 11: Inequalities. The unit test is scheduled for Monday, March 26th. 7Y this week finished and reviewed Unit 12: Perimeters and Areas of Plane Figures. The unit test is scheduled for Monday, March 26th. Judaic Studies Students invented incredible clocks to keep track of the different types of time mentioned in the first mishna: Mishna Berachot, Chapter 1, Mishna 1. As growing leaders of the school, 7th graders will be planning and running Passover seders for the entire middle school. Working in... Read More
Week 27: Monday, March 19th – Friday, March 23rd
Advisory The advisory team and Jen lead a session on factual communication. We discussed various ways in which people communicate when they have a difference of opinion, and we discussed Emotional communication vs. Factual communication. In Emotional communication, the interaction is based on feelings, vs. in Factual communication, where the conversation is based on facts and does not contain any personal remarks. We would like to encourage you to continue this conversation at home with the children. Hebrew This week the 8th grade use a variety of techniques in order to practice conversations in Israel. Here is a sneak peek of... Read More
March 23 – Our 100 Boxes Party Theme is…
Dear Third Grade Families, This week was one of new beginnings. We started new Social Studies, writing AND math units! As well, so many students have brought in money to support Hannah Senesh’s Penny Pot Drive, lead by the 6th Grade. Please make sure to keep sending in spare change to bring us to first place! Math We are working on division. We learned two new vocabulary words this week: quotient and remainder. Quotient is similar to “answer,” though we tried to reinforce that it does NOT mean the whole number, like the answer would mean in addition or multiplication. Remainder... Read More
First Grade News
In Math we continued to work on addition and subtraction with regrouping. This week, first graders applied their math strategies to real world problems. First grader writers continue to work on their realistic fiction stories. This week we started writing series. By looking at popular series books in our classrooms we noticed that series books all have the same characters, but have different adventures in each book. Many first graders decided to have their series take place in our classroom neighborhood. They made stick puppets of their characters to live in our neighborhood. Our class neighborhood is complete! This week... Read More
Reptiles and the Letter Y!
Dear Kindergarten Families, We had lots of fun this week in Kindergarten! We continued talking about using kind words and being careful not to hurt others with our words. We read the story “Have You Filled a Bucket Today?” by Carol McCloud. We talked about using kind words and doing nice things to fill each other’s buckets. In Math, we continued learning about Time. We read “The Grouchy Ladybug” by Eric Carle and created our own pages saying what time the grouchy ladybug met an animal of our choice. We also practiced telling time on the hour with clocks. Additionally, we learned... Read More
Snow Day in Spring
Hello Fourth Grade Families! It has been an exciting week here in the fourth grade. Not only did we go on a field trip and get an unexpected snow day, but we have a lot of thrilling events coming up next week. We will be presenting our Pesach projects, enjoying a pre-holiday celebration, having our poetry cafe, and finishing our science project with Sammi! On a more bittersweet note, we will also be saying goodbye to our general studies teacher Miriam as she goes on maternity leave. We hope you will stop by to wish her well. Shabbat Shalom! -The... Read More