6th Grade News: 6/4 – 6/8/18
HUMANITIES It’s hard to believe that this was the second to last week of school! We remain busy in humanities as the end of the year approaches. This week was filled with collaborative and experiential learning opportunities. In Literature, we culminated our unit on The Graveyard Book with creative projects. Students made comic strips, skits, videos, and stories inspired by the novel’s themes and characters. They had fun sharing these with classmates, and it was great to see how students took their projects in so many creative directions. The highlight of the week was our very own, Hannah Senesh-style simulation... Read More
5th Grade Week of 6/4
HUMANITIES: What a week! We had our amazing China Museum, during which our students showed off the fruits of their hard work over the past two months. We are so proud of them! In addition, we began to wrap up our Book Club Unit, and continued to write our memoirs. Have a good weekend!-Tony MATH: 5th graders will be taking their last unit test on Monday, June 11th. The last week of school will involve reviewing and correcting any second semester assignments that have yet been completed/corrected. All the corrections and assignments are due Wednesday, June 13th. -Kelly JUDAICS: This... Read More
The Penultimate Week
Dear Fourth Grade Families, As we approach the end of the school year, we want to thank everyone who attended the Fourth Grade Songs of America and Israel performance yesterday. We are all so proud of our students, as we sure you are as well, and we know that it meant a lot to them to have you all there watching and cheering them on. We would also like to thank you for your kind words (spoken and written) and the beautiful flowers, and most of all for sharing your talented, funny, outspoken, and wise children with us this year.... Read More
June 4 – June 8
Math 7X is close to finishing Unit 14: Proportions. Unit 14 assignments/corrections are due Wednesday, June 13th. 7Y is close to finishing Unit 17: Probability of Combined Events. Units 16 and 17 assignments/corrections are due Wednesday, June 13th. Judaic Studies I was blown away by the amazing presentations at the Renaissance Fair! Kol haKavod! 7th graders looked at the reaction of Bnai Yisrael to the spies’ report. Why do they say “If only we’d died in the land of Egypt or in this wilderness – if only we’d died!” Why would they rather die than go into the land? What... Read More
First Grade News: Week of June 4th
In Math, we finished our introduction into multiplication and division. First graders showed off their knowledge of multiplication by making skyscraper arrays! We then began to learn about money. This week we learned the value of coins, and practiced counting money. We played two new math games: race to one dollar, and money compare. In Social Studies we learned about different ways to reduce our energy consumption. We reread a favorite book from Kindergarten, “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.” It’s the true story of a boy who lived in Malawi and taught himself to build a windmill. In... Read More
Week 37: Monday, June 4th – Friday, June 8th
Hebrew: Dear parents, This week the students worked on finishing their end of the year movies about themselves. The goal of the project was to encourage the students to end the year with a verbal presentation of themselves. Next week, I will share with you their written autobiographies and parts of their movies. Enjoy your weekend, Andreea Heritage: הורים יקרים, תלמידי כיתה ח’ הינם המחזור הראשון שסיים את התוכנית לדוברי עברית כאות הוקרה למאמץ שהם השקיעו הזמנו אותם למסעדה ישראלית במנהטן, שהיה ממש מוצלח. בנוסף לזה השינשינים ערכו פיעלות אחרונה איתם שכללה את המשחק חדר מילוט (Escape Room). מאחלת לכם... Read More
Biography Share – June 8
Dear Third Grade Families, Over the past several weeks, our third graders have been working SO hard on their biography writing. Last Friday, they finally got to share their writing and show off everything they learned with our seventh grade buddies! Students (some in fabulous costumes!) sat around our desk groups, and got ready be interviewed. Seventh grade buddies came prepared with all kinds of questions for third graders. They wanted to know facts the third graders had learned about their biography subjects, but also wanted to know about the writing strategies third graders used for their essays. The seventh... Read More
Field Trip
Writing Field Trip We began the week with a writing-based field trip to 826NYC, also known as the Superhero Supply Company in Brooklyn. At the Supply Co. we were lead back into the secret writing lab (which we entered through a bookcase that turned into a secret door!) and began to brainstorm characters and a setting for our story. Then, we decided what makes for a good problem in a story, which second graders described as “one that is exciting and hard to solve”. Then, with the help of the amazing Superhero Supply Co. team, we wrote the beginning and... Read More
Prospect Park Zoo and much more!
Dear Kindergarten Families, We had an eventful week in Kindergarten! We went to the Prospect Park Zoo and the new playground, and had lots of fun at sports day and sharing our favorite book characters! We also loved watching our fourth grade buddies perform their songs of Israel and America! In Math, we completed our unit on Weight and Capacity and began learning about coins. We learned about capacity and filled containers with water to measure which had the largest or smallest capacity. We also began to learn about the different values of coins. We sorted coins, played store, tried... Read More