5th Grade Week of 5/7

Another successful week in 5th Grade! Thank you to everyone for your kind gifts and thoughts for Teacher Appreciation Week. Please enjoy our class updates, and have a good weekend!

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Humanities: This week in Humanities, students dove in to their book club units. They did an excellent job of owning their independent work time and keeping their groups on successful tracks. We also continued working on our China Museum projects, and we prepared for the ERB. Shabbat Shalom!-Tony

Math: Fifth graders spent the week reviewing for the upcoming ERB. Please remind your child to bring a calculator on Wednesday, May 16th for Math Part II. After the ERB, the classes will resume and will continue learning the unit on decimals. Progress report was sent with your child on Wednesday and it should be signed and returned by no later than Monday, May 14th. Have a wonderful weekend! –Kelly

Science: Students this week build models of the solar system with string. The objective of the activity was to discover how far each planet is from the sun. They predicted these locations and build the model, then they build the model with the actual distances in order to compare their models. Next week we will continue with our exploration of space and rocket engineering.-Mike

Judaics: “We started the week off reviewing for our test on the 2nd and 3rd Aliyot. We then did a really fun group project where we worked together to complete a list of jobs that needed to be done to build Kibbutz Degania. We all did tasks and it was great how at the end we helped each other finish everything. We learned about how a Kibbutz was a socialist society. During this project we got a taste of how this would be by working all together on a set on tasks. We were all in character as the founders of the Kibbutz. I was AD Gorden and he believed in labor and spirituality. He was a farmer with the chickens and he inspired others with hard work. I helped make signs that would go up in the kibbutz to inspire hard work. The test was not too hard! We studied this subject for awhile so it all made sense! Shabbat Shalom”. – Cole

Hebrew: 

5K

This week fifth grade learned about Eliezer Ben Yehuda. In the late 1880 Eliezer Ben Yehuda set out on a journey to revive the Hebrew language and turn it into a daily living language, in the process he invented words, wrote a dictionary and newspapers. Students read his biography watched a short movie about his journey and had a reading comprehension on the material.-Yehuda

5J

This week the J group started a new packet! Students will be learning how to read and analyze short biographies using a color coding system that was taught to them this week. Our main focus is to learn and immerse the students in past tense. They have already begun the exciting packet and read a biography on Hank Greenberg the famous baseball player that refused to play on Yom Kippur

הורים יקרים,

התלמידים ממשיכים את עבודתם על הפרוייקט האישי שלהם – כתיבת קומיקס בעברית. תוך כדי כתיבתם הם נחשפים לאוצר מילים נרחב המשתמש אותם בהעשרת כתיבתם.  

סוף שבוע טוב,

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