Happy Hanukkah Hannah Senesh!!
Greetings Senesh Community, Please follow below to join our winter academic journey with our inquisitive second-grade scholars as our year comes to a close and our new year approaches. Always, we are excited to share our latest developments in all content areas. General Studies – Jacob Around this time each year, as reading skills strengthen and solidify, a remarkable transformation takes place. Seven-year-olds who have been working tirelessly over the years to learn to read are now ready for the enjoyment and satisfaction of reading to learn! This statement couldn’t be more true for our second-graders at Hannah Senesh. For... Read More
December 11 — Miracle of Lights
Humanities with Hilary Dear Fourth Grade Families, Can you believe it’s almost 2021? This year is speeding by so quickly! We have our fall publishing party on Thursday, December 17 where this grade will be showing off what they have learned in Hebrew, Judaic Studies, humanities, art and music. They are such rock stars! 🤩 4A — 11:00-11:45 4B — 1:00-1:45 4C — 10:00-10:45 Now let’s find out what the kiddos have been learning these past few weeks! In reading, we are almost done with our book club books. Students have been focusing a lot on the skill of figuring... Read More
Third Grade 12/11
Community Building As we came back from Thanksgiving, we shared how excited we were to be back in school. We wanted to do hands-on activities, ones that we can enjoy most in the building together. After watching some Bob Ross painting videos, we felt inspired. We used watercolors and discussed Bob Ross’s techniques, his philosophy on how there are never any mistakes in art, and practiced noticing the details in our friends’ painting work. It felt great to be creative, and have new colorful artwork to put on our classroom walls! Social studies, Reading, Writing We have been hard at... Read More
Israel Hayom: Nicole Nash Comments on COVID Vaccine
by Yoni Hersch Israel Hayom The FDA’s Vaccine Committee has Recommended that Agency Heads Approve Pfizer’s Vaccine The FDA ‘s Immunization Committee, the U.S. Drug Administration, has recommended that the heads of the agency issue an emergency permit for Pfizer’s corona vaccine. Now only the last stage remains, and it is possible that the long-awaited final approval will be received as soon as tonight. The committee’s decision was made by a majority of 17 supporters against four members who objected. One of the experts refrained. Read the rest of the article here.
Kindergarten Blog 12/11/20
Dear Families, This week was a little different, as we transitioned back from online learning to in person learning. Students and teachers alike were very happy to see each other in person, and eager to discuss the learning and games that happened online. Students are hard at work preparing for our program on Monday. Kindergarteners finished writing their stories, practiced reading them, and were video taped. In science, we have been practicing a dance about planting seeds that you will see on Monday (it also shows off some of our yoga poses!). In Hebrew/Judaics, kids learned about Hanukkah, and how... Read More
First Grade News
Hello Families, In writing this week, students chose a writing piece that they would like to share with the world (publish). We revised our writing to make sure it made sense and that we included elements to make our stories come alive for our readers. We then put on our editing hats and checked for finger spaces, punctuation, snap word spelling, and that we used all our sounds to spell tricky words. We put our stories to the test by having a friend read our stories which produced many giggles in all 3 pods. Lastly, we fancied up our stories... Read More