6th Grade News: 5/22-5/25/18
HUMANITIES This week in History students focused on ancient Greek wars and battles, learning about the Persian Wars and Peloponnesian War. We examined the “phalanx,” an ancient Greek battle formation, and made inferences about its effectiveness. We also talked about the “big ideas” and themes that came out of these wars, such as the notion that small groups can come together to accomplish large, seemingly impossible goals. Lastly, we listened to a fun, musical video that narrates the Peloponnesian War through art. See the video at this link if you’re interested! In Literature class, students are nearing the end of The Graveyard Book, by Neil... Read More
5th Grade Week of 5/22
What a week! The sun is out, and we are winding down the year with a few more weeks to go! Please enjoy our classroom updates below, and have a lovely long weekend! Mindfulness Advisory this week: Partner Yoga! Humanities: This week in Humanities, we continued our book club unit, and explored elements of fantasy, themes, and the concept of friendship in fantasy books. We also concluded our essay portion of the China Museum project. Can’t wait to see everyone June 5th!-Tony Math: This week, the fifth graders learned to express fractions as decimals, multiply and divide decimals by 10s, 100s, and... Read More
First Grade News
In writing, we started a new unit on book reviews. First graders recalled all the ways they know how to convince your reader and used this knowledge to share their opinions on books they have read. They watched videos of other students giving oral book reviews and practiced this skill as well. In Social Studies, first graders explored the idea of recycling by making paper. First graders learned how paper is made out of trees and used the same process to make new paper out of paper scraps and water. They were so excited to bring their new papers... Read More
Week 35: Tuesday, May 22nd – Friday, May 25th
Advisory Dear parents, This week in advisory we started a conversation about being wise media consumers. We discussed the various types of categories that news segments belong to. Hebrew This week the students have taken the standardized AVANT test. This will enable us to analyze their progress over the last tests. Heritage הורים יקרים, השבוע התלמידים עבדו על מבחן אוונט הבודק מיומנויות בכתיבה, דיבור והאזנה בעברית. תוצאות המבחן הינן פנימיות ואינן משפיעות על הציון בתעודה. מטרתם להעניק תמונה כוללת ולאפשר לנו להמשיך ולסייע לתלמידים במיומנויות השפה הנדרשות. מאחלת לכם סוף שבוע נעים, אילנה Humanities Literature and Writing: This week, students completed reading... Read More
Exploring new Chumashim and Textile Field Trip!
Chumash Students were so excited to explore their new chumashim after yesterday’s fabulous Chumash Ceremony! They were especially excited to find verses in their new books that they recognized from class an the play. They started to get to know their new books by looking for this week’s parsha and finisng familar names and stories. Questions and Comments heard in class: “Where can I find the Pesach story?” “I found Ezra’s name!” “Does my book have Megillat Esther?” “I found a map of the route that the Israelite’s took from Egypt!” “This is the pasuk that I read in the... Read More
Immigration and Biographies – May 25
Dear Third Grade Families, Can you believe it’s already the end of May? Time is flying and, boy, are we having fun! During the end of April and beginning of May, each student took the time to read through the biography of his or her important person in history. As previously mentioned, students took notes about their person (be it King Tut, Steven Spielberg, Helen Keller or Ruth Bader Ginsburg), and placed those notes into at least four categories. These categories became the chapter titles for the biography each student is writing, and the chapter titles look different for each... Read More
May 22- May 25
Hebrew This week students started taking a series of assessments in all 4 skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. A similar assessment was taken at the beginning of the year, the results we receive will allow us to track students progress in all 4 skills. These tests do not impact the students grade on their progress reports but are very important so we can track each students progress from the beginning of the year and from previous years and the MS as a whole. Math 7X worked on their unit project of making a mobile of solids this week, calculating... Read More
Between Shavuot and Memorial Day
Hello Fourth Grade Families! Only three weeks left in the school year! June 15th is coming ever closer, but there’s still lots of learning and excitement going on at Hannah Senesh. This week, the fourth grade enjoyed one of the year’s highlights: our class trip to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Students learned a lot about immigration, life in NYC a century ago, and the idea of wanting versus needing something. We ate delicious pickles from The Pickle Guys, enjoyed a class-wide foot race in the park, and looked for evidence of old shops and Jewish life on the... Read More
Schnitzi restaurant, science exploration and much more!
Dear Kindergarten Families, We had a week full of learning and fun activities. We had so much fun visiting Yahli’s family’s restaurant and learning all about those who work there! In Math, we continued our unit on Subtraction. We practiced making a number sentence out of a “how many more?” problem. We learned how to look at pictures of items and compare which one has more and write a number sentence to describe the problem. We also learned how to solve simple subtraction problems. In English Language Arts, we continued our Non-fiction/Informational writing unit. We wrote science books titled “Who... Read More