6th Grade News: 5/13 – 5/24/19

GENERAL

The 6th graders had a blast yesterday competing for the Yellow, Green, Red, and Blue teams during Lag B’Omer! Enjoy some photos of 6th graders showing their team spirit here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/D7ZpzufmiTBbqjit6

JUDAICS: 

This week we finished our Toon Tastic projects and shared them with the class! Students took the text from Shemot where Bnai Yisrael crossed the Red Sea and turned it into their very own animated movies! They included the text that we use in tefillah, Mi Chamocha and Az Yashir. It was so fun to see the text come alive as they used this accessible technology. I hope that now when they sing these songs in tefillah they will have the image in their minds of where Bnai Yisrael where and what they were feeling when these songs originally occurred. We also continued our study of the Kippah in preparation for making our own kippot to use for next year.

Please enjoy these projects! Ask your child to watch them with you and explain their process.

Elias and Heshel

Tamar and Yakira

Sara and Vera:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bQGES2TmfuTE7ItV6I5jbSAVCRY7p2F4/view?usp=sharing

Abby and Leah https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e3mD8nrgIlRWkVR9M7z863QBxoWeyWwB/view?usp=sharing

Shir and Emma https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EQlFBg_Ao9C7aDIH7f8TEXiexNMrU0pz/view?usp=sharing

Sylvie and Levi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qKM9G53N8OaGP9XyVO6QQEKlltI-oto7/view?usp=sharing

Noa and Jakob https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z4etayCJXOB3fHRKAlK_Tkn67mmHsImd/view?usp=sharing

Cole and Sam https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dV9d9Nhwnu1K5q-cHcdKqaeVnjzCreCG/view?usp=sharing

Leela and Margot https://drive.google.com/file/d/100z1las8gbcf9mxfoPsXGgmTSPgQvNb7/view?usp=sharing

Shabbat Shalom,

Laura

HUMANITIES:

This week in Social Studies, students began preparing for our culminating project: “The Peloponnesian Summit.” This summit, which didn’t actually occur in real life, is our way of reimagining a more peaceful and longer-lasting history for ancient Greece. In reality, the major city-states of Greece – both Athens and Sparta – were forever weakened by the devastating Peloponnesian War. In our alternative history, though, students will pose as both Athenians and Spartans and come together for a peace conference, in which they will broker a peace treaty and form a “New Greece” together. After all students share presentations about the government, social structure, military, and education systems in both city-states, the class will discuss and vote on which aspects of Athenian and Spartan culture they’d like to take with them to the New Greece, and which they’d rather leave behind. Students have been working hard to research and prepare their presentations, and I’m looking forward to seeing and discussing them at the Peloponnesian Summit on Tuesday (5/28).

In ELA, students worked hard to prepare for the ERBs this week. We learned and practiced strategies for reading comprehension questions, vocabulary questions, and verbal reasoning questions — such as analogies and logic puzzles. Students should feel proud to have completed these long hours of tests! We are also moving quickly through The Graveyard Book and will wrap up our unit next week.

Have a great weekend,

Naomi

MATH

The 6th grade has had a great time learning about surface area and volume. We were even able to do a fun hands on activity with all your family members on Kesher Day. Next week we will start a unit on central tendency (mean, medium, mode). This is a  fun unit because the students will get to survey each other about all sorts of things and create different graphs to represent the data they collected. Hope everyone has a great Memorial Day Weekend.