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April 27, 2018

6th Grade News: 4/23 – 4/27/18

HUMANITIES This week in Literature class we began our new novel, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. The book tells a semi-supernatural tale about a human boy who grows up in a graveyard and is raised by ghosts who died hundreds of years ago. It’s both a fun and sophisticated read, filled with spooky elements like werewolves and full moons, as well as frequent references to history, gothic literature, and mythology. As we read, we’ll analyze literary devices like “perspective” and “allusion,” and discuss abstract questions such as How do our homes shape who we are? and What kinds of...
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April 23 – April 27

Judaic Studies 7th graders are studying chapter 12 in the book of Bmidbar using a traditional text: Mikraot Gdolot. Students were given a challenge: find a way to portray a page of Mikraot Gdolot using their bodies!     The 7th graders went on to make their own pages of Mikraot Gdolot: Math 7X started learning “Volumes and Surface Areas of Solids” this week and in this unit (unit 13), they will learn to sketch prisms, use nets to visualize their surface areas, find the volumes and surface areas of prisms, convert between cm2 and m3, and between cm3 and...
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5th Grade Week of 4/23

What a week in 5th Grade! Our 5A students had another excellent trip to the Brooklyn Autism Center, yet again showing their compassion and amazing ability to be kind to others. Please enjoy our class updates below, and have a good weekend! HUMANITIES: Another successful week in Humanities! Students finished reading Revolution is not a Dinner Party and completed some really fun trailers on iMovie for the book. We also continued our China Museum writing portion and completed some fun extra credit work. Shabbat Shalom!-Tony MATH: Fifth graders this week have been reviewing for the unit (Ratio) test on Monday, April 30th (also...
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Special Visitors and Finishing the Aleph-Bet

Israel: Visitors from Eight Grade Second graders have been following the adventuresses of the eighth graders in Israel through their blog and pictures for the past two weeks. Now that the eight graders are backed, we invited a few to visit our class so that we could hear more in person and ask them our questions. They each told us about their individual trip highlights and something new that they learned in Israel. Hebrew: Learning our last letter of the Aleph Bet! We learned Phey Sofit, our last script letter! Students were so excited to have finished the Aleph Bet,...
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First Grade News

We had special visitors from Malawi this week, Chipaza and Rephael. Rephael has worked for Yamba Malawi for ten years and Chipaza is one of the farmers developing his business through Yamba Malawi’s programs. First graders interviewed Chipaza and Rephael about their lives and families in Malawi.   We started our poetry unit this week. First graders explored the poetry books in our classroom and learned new things about poetry. They noticed that not all poems rhyme, many poems have verses, some poems have patterns, and poems can be silly! We learned about seeing the world through a poet’s eyes....
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Oregon Trail Week

Hello Fourth Grade Families! What a week! After so much preparation, baking of biscuits, churning of butter, and arranging of costumes, the fourth grade set out on the Oregon Trail today! We braved the rain and wind, crossed the mighty Clinton Street Raging River, and enjoyed a trading post with our parents volunteers. Thank you to all the parents who helped us with food prep and the trading post. We couldn’t have done it without you! We’re looking forward now to Lag B’Omer and Kesher Day next week. Have a great weekend! Shabbat Shalom! -The Fourth Grade Team PEEK AT...
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April 27: The Statue of Liberty, Book Clubs and Fractions — Oh My!

Dear Third Grade Families, Another week has gone by, and there’s still so much to learn and do before June! We have rescheduled our Brooklyn Bridge trips for May (which are listed towards the bottom of this section), which is very exciting, and we are also headed to Ellis Island at the end of the month. We look forward to exploring some of our community members’ family members, who stopped at Ellis Island on their way to America. Math: This week, we delved into fractions, specifically looking at how to create whole numbers when the denominator is the same. Connections...
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Painted Pot and more fun!

Dear Kindergarten Families, We had a fun week in Kindergarten! The children had a great time painting our kiddush cups at Painted Pot yesterday! As a special treat, we also went to play at Carroll Park in the morning and it was such a joy to see the children play in the sunshine! Big THANK YOU to all the parents who helped us with the trip: Lana, Corinne, Michelle, Sara and Hila! In Math, we have continued to learn about parts of a whole. We practiced using a number line to figure out how many more we need to get...
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