First Grade News
Dear First Grade Families, First graders this week have enjoyed spending time with other grades in school-wide events. They especially enjoyed spending time with their buddies. We started out the week going to a lower school fair for Tu B’shvat with their buddies where they planted seeds, ate special fruits for the holiday, and did science experiments. We continued by doing activities for Yom Ivrit with the 8th graders. The middle school was incredibly welcoming as we learned dances, made Hebrew letters out of legos, and even took pictures in a photo booth! The week ended with the Talent Show... Read More
Kindergarten Newsletter
Hello Families, We have turned our classroom into a book factory! Kids are writing more and more pattern show and tell books about things that are important to them such as babies, dragons, vacations, family, P.E etc. We are practicing coming up with a topic, 3 parts about the topic, and then a pattern for our book quickly. In a couple weeks we will celebrate the end of our unit by turning our class into a book store and invite our 4th grade buddies to visit! Our reading super heroes have showed us their superpowers and earned their masks and... Read More
2/6/2022 – 8th Grade Blog
Hi, parents! Math Now that the 8th grade is out of the woods and back into the swing of things, a lot of mathematical progression has been made within the past few weeks. We have revisited the concept of functions, as well as the modeling of linear functions, as a refresher before we delve into other types of functions such as exponential, quadratic, and absolute value functions. Exponential Functions are often used to represent growth or decay for things such as the population or financial investments. Quadratic Functions are often used to analyze trajectories of objects such as a football... Read More
February 7, 2020
Humanities In ELA, students are putting the finishing touches on their persuasive essays, which hopefully reveal a deft balance of pathos, logos, and ethos. They are also preparing for their 150 word test on February 12th, which is a culmination of ten weeks of vocabulary study. Lastly, students are concluding their third independent reading assignment, due on Friday, February 14th. In social studies, students have embarked on chapter 13, Early African Civilizations. The time period the chapter covers is 550 BC to 1600 CE. However, we’ll be asking some questions about modern Africa as well. Math In Math class... Read More
February 6th
Judaic Studies with Ariana We have been working hard learning and getting truly inspired. We continue learning about food justice and we are getting ready to embrace our responsibilities as trash monitors in the lunchroom this upcoming week. Every third grader will embrace their duty by helping educate the school on good practices for recycling. They will share their thoughts on all that we have learned and a topic that resonated with them. We call this “Our statement”. We have been learning new tefillot and we transition to a different siddur that contains most of the tefillot students recite... Read More
February 6
General Studies with Dawn We are deep into our study of the American Revolution. After learning as a whole group about the Stamp Act and The Boston Tea Party, students researched other events leading up to the war and taught their classmates about them. This included The Intolerable Acts, The Boston Massacre, The Townshend Acts, and the Battles at Lexington and Concord. Students have a good understanding of the frustrations that led up to the war and especially “Taxation without Representation.” After an overview of the war, students will choose a topic about the war and write an informational book.So... Read More
First Grade News
This week the first graders did a lot of sharing. Whether it was through editing our writing with a friend, spending time with our 5th grade buddies or working with a partner during word work. We love working together with our friends! In Reading the students have continued their exploration of the’ magic e’ rule. We made sure to explore books in our library and found a lot of words. We noticed that their are other words with ‘magic e’ besides words that the ‘e’ made the ‘a’ vowel say its name. For example, we noticed that the vowels i... Read More
6th Grade News: 1/27 – 2/7/20
Kindness Week: As many of you know, Hannah Senesh celebrated our own Kindness Week last week. As part of the celebration, students performed acts of kindness around school, in their homes, and in their communities. These included giving away clothes, putting away other people’s computers, complimenting others, cleaning, helping friends with homework, and more. They also had a wonderful time meeting up with their 2nd grade buddies to play a kindness-themed board game and share treats that the 2nd graders made. See photos of their time with their buddies below! Humanities: These past few weeks, humanities classes have been... Read More
Our Week in Fifth Grade: 2-6-20
Advisory During advisory, the fifth graders created slide shows shared their strengths and weaknesses to show how everyone is unique. This ties into our curriculum to learn about people with disabilities. The classes also reflected on the year so far and created a list of things that have gone really well and things that the class needs to continue to work on. The students split into groups and each took on an area of improvement that they felt passionate about. The plan they created needed to be actionable and to include a way to collect evidence that the plan is... Read More
Kindergarten Newsletter
Dear Kindergarten parents הורים יקרים, This week in Hebrew and Judaic studies we started learning about the holiday Tu B’Shvat, which is the birthday of the trees. The students learned about shivat haminim (the seven species): chita, seora, gefen, te’ena, rimon, zayit, and tamar. We asked the students: why are the trees so important and what do they give us? The students gave answers such as oxygen, furniture, fruits, houses, and more! In Hebrew, we read the book Pishpesh Mitlabesh and the students learned about the different clothes you wear in the winter. We also continued learning about the creation... Read More