2nd Grade– 10/15/21
In Second Grade we have officially kicked off workshop in reading and writing! It has been amazing to watch the students dive in and get excited about all parts of our literacy program! In writing, the students have started their own small moment stories and are learning how to craft their ideas with details. In reading, we have been building reader habits while practicing strategies such as scooping up phrases to help read fluently. At home, be sure to ask your child to read aloud while scooping phrases with a pretend ice scooper just like we did in class! In... Read More
10/15 Kindergarten Blog
10/15 Kindergarten Blog Dear Kindergarten Families, This week we learned new games in Hebrew, Math, and P.E., sang new songs and old favorites, and are continuing to make friends with each other. In our Morning Meetings, we introduced two new songs: Down By the Bay, and This Land Is Your Land. We shared our favorite movies, books, places, and songs, and began a class-wide conversation about daily rotating student jobs, which will be introduced next week. As we continued to set up our classroom for the year each child made their own batch of playdough, carefully following... Read More
3rd Grade 10/15
We have been busy here during the first two full weeks of school! Reminder: Parent Event, Wednesday, 10/20 8:40-9:20 am at school. Full details went out by email. Reach out to Shira if your child will NOT have a guest in attendance. sbecher@hannahsenesh.org Reading with Shannon In reading, we set up our classroom library to allow children to take home the book they are reading in school. Ask your child how they check out a book. We also started reading Stone Fox. It is about a 10 year old boy who lives on a potato farm with his grandfather. While reading,... Read More
October 15th – Full weeks of school!
Photos of the Week Here is where you can find the link to our photo album for this blog. There are pictures from the Beit Midrash, our Judaic Studies Event from 10/12, and Science with Sammi. Science with Sammi Over the last two weeks, the 4th grade scientists have continued to work on team challenges. Both challenges they have completed focused on sketching out a plan and continued our conversations on compromising and positive language. In one challenge, they worked with cups, sticks, blocks, and binder clips to build different structures that had one cube as the base, was tall,... Read More
October 15, 2021
HUMANITIES After weeks focusing on skills and ideas such as close reading and what it means to be a historian, we are starting two new units that integrate English Language Arts and Social Studies. We are starting the historical fiction novel, Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson, a story told from the perspective of an enslaved girl living in New York City during the American Revolutionary War. We will discuss the different meanings of freedom while analyzing the literal and metaphorical use of “chains” in the novel. We are also starting a unit on Early America, centered around the Boston Massacre... Read More
October in 8th Grade at Senesh
Humanities Students have been working hard to write their own creative personal essays throughout the previous two weeks. In order to prepare, students have been doing intensive studies of both “master” texts from writers such as Jazmine Hughes, Alice Walker, George Orwell, and E. B. White, as well as from adolescent writers. The first drafts of their essays are due this Friday! Science Science has started strong with the discovery of what is an atom. Students created 3D models using beads and pipe cleaners. They needed to correctly position the three basic particles within an atom, namely the electron, proton,... Read More
October 15: And We’re Off!
Judaics: In Judaics we have learned our routine of beginning class with a Mindful Minute and then singing our blessing for studying Torah. We took some time to really study the blessing that we will say each day and thinking about how our translation also showed our interpretation. I am so excited that we are diving into the Joseph stories in Chumash. We will be working on some grammar skills that will help us unlock some important details in the text. We will also think about how this story relates to our own experience in life. From the start, Genesis... Read More