December 6, 2019
Advisory Over the past two weeks, students prepared a lesson on Estela’s Swap for kindergarteners and first graders at Brooklyn Landmark Elementary School. We will ask pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading questions. In the story, Estela has a music box that she gives to someone. The younger students will draw, color, and write about their own music box. In preparing, 7th graders had to practice reading the book aloud and asking thoughtful questions of readers. Humanities We are embarking on Week 4 of a new set of vocabulary. This set of vocabulary switches between Wordly Wise 7th grade words... Read More
December 6th
Hebrew with Rimma and Tomer In Hebrew we practiced verbal skills by introducing places that are familiar. We studied how to introduce the places and the people in our neighborhoods and discussed what is special in our neighborhood and what makes it so nice to live in. We recombined learned vocabulary creatively into a short paragraph by using verbs in the present tense and paying a lot of attention to some differences between Hebrew and English. Now we know that in Hebrew we say “people nice “or “neighborhood beautiful“ instead of “ nice people “ and “beautiful neighborhood “. We have been hard at... Read More
December Begins! (8th Grade Blog)
Hello, Senesh families, These past few weeks in humanities, students have been accomplishing a lot! In ELA, we began reading and acting out The Crucible. Students are getting so excited to choose their characters and act out this crucial American masterpiece! In Social Studies, we have just finished our unit on Colonial America, and students took a cumulative test over the material, ranging from the first European contact up until the time of the Salem Witch Trials. Additionally, the students have been doing really beautiful volunteer work with the elders at the Ezra Project Center. On Tuesday of last week,... Read More
Kindergarten Newsletter
Dear Families, We have launched our new writing unit “Show and Tell” and are busy writing about things we really care about, including our stuffed animals from home. We are working extra hard on looking closely to add details, writing more on the page, and hearing more sounds as we spell. We will soon move into writing pattern books! In math, we continued to explore counting strategies as we count bigger groups of objects. We also are comparing and ordering numbers using less than, greater than, and equal. Our new favorite card game is “top it!” We have enjoyed working... Read More
Week of December 2
Hebrew with Rimma and Tomer In our Hebrew class we brainstormed about different objects and why they are unique. Each of us chose one object and wrote a paragraph, exploring a bit further and bringing our objects to life: where is it coming from, what is it made of and what makes this special to us. In addition, we are practicing for our Hebrew play which just around the corner and we are very excited about it. Judaic Studies with Ariana Fourth grade students continue learning Chumash, Parshat Toldot. With the help of our Chavruta partners,we have been... Read More
6th Grade News: 11/18 – 12/5/19
Advisory: In advisory check-ins, we’ve continued to discuss on how to stay on top of academic work. We talk about prioritizing certain assignments, checking Jupiter Ed, and communicating with teachers about missing or late work. During full advisory periods, we’ve recently focused on handling tricky social scenarios and communicating as part of a team. Some team challenges we participated in this week: How tall can your team build a card tower? How fast can your team pass a hoola hoop through all of your bodies? How can we best communicate to complete these tasks and others efficiently and effectively? Through... Read More
Our Week in Fifth Grade- 12-6-19
We hope that everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving break. We are thankful for getting to spend our days with each of your students. Read on to find out what we have been learning in fifth grade. Humanities: The students have continued working on their research essays. After taking notes from a variety of online and print sources, they learned how to organize the notes into categories which translated to the body paragraphs of their essays. Once the notes were in categories, we worked on writing an introductory paragraph beginning with a hook, followed by background information, and ending with a thesis... Read More
First Grade News
What an action packed week in first grade! It was wonderful to welcome grandparents and other family members on Kesher Day to our classroom. First, the students played a game called “pop up, pop down”, standing up or down depending on if you shared a similarity with others. Then first graders and family guests interviewed each other. We had fun learning new things about our family and drawing pictures. We really loved celebrating our small moments stories with parents at our publishing party and sharing what we have been learning in Hebrew, Science, and Art through displays of our work. ... Read More
kindergarten Newsletter
Dear Families, This week has been a flurry of activity as we prepare for our very first publishing party! We learned that when we publish a book, we are deciding to share our story with the world and we need to “fancy up” our books! So we colored and created a cover, title, and all about the author page. We also have gone back to our books to make sure that they have details, settings, labels and have a beginning middle and end. Lastly, we practiced reading our stories with gusto. We even got to read them to our first... Read More
First Grade News
This week the first grade teachers really enjoyed having families in our classroom community. Thank you for strengthening the school-home connection. We love having you in the classroom and look forward to see families next week for Kesher Day on Monday and the Publishing Party on Wednesday. In Writing this week we have been working on publishing our stories. We learned how to revise our story and make sure our characters were not frozen. We added dialogue and movement in order to unfreeze our characters in our small moments. We also learned how to add what the character is thinking... Read More