3rd Grade: 3/11
Reading We are still getting used to book clubs and working independently. Each time book clubs meet, students are reading chapters and answering questions or looking at new vocabulary words. This week, we’re focusing on the characteristics of the main character. We have been having great conversations about what we know about the character based on what they say and do. Writing We continued to finalize our biographies. This week we talked about paragraphs and how to organize a paragraph. They usually start with an introduction or what the paragraph is about. Then there are supporting details and examples. When... Read More
6th Grade News: 3/11/22
Humanities: This past month in Social Studes, students engaged with our content through primary source exploration, role-playing activities, and discussions about current events. To learn more about the mythology behind Rome’s founding, we read an excerpt from the classic Latin epic poem The Aeneid. The language was sophisticated and complex, but students did a great job reading closely and rewriting the text in their own words. Our class has also experienced ancient Roman life for ourselves by getting into character — which students love! For example, we spent one lesson acting as “plebeians” (commoners) and “patricians” (upper class citizens) in... Read More
March 11, 2022
HUMANITIES 7th graders of been working on two concurring projects in Social Studies and English Language Arts. In Social Studies, students have been researching different ways in which housing insecurity affects our society and our communities. They have diligently been finding useful information to incorporate into letters that they are writing to inform and exhort people not to sit idly by while this problem persists. They are presenting some of their findings to the rest of the school next week while culminating the supply drive they’ve organized. In ELA, 7E and 7F have just begun the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing... Read More
3rd Grade: 3/4
We hope you all had an enjoyable break! Reading: Before break we finished reading Because of Winn Dixie and started watching the movie. The kids were excited to see this story on screen and kept comparing it to the book, often shouting, “That is not how I pictured it!” Afterwards we read Dyamond Daniel and compared Dyamonde to Opal. They both moved to new places and were looking for friends. Dyamonde was nice to everyone, even Free who wasn’t nice to her, and looking for friends her own age. Opal did not want to be friends with the Dewberry boys as they... Read More
March 4 2022 — March has flown in like a lion …
Hebrew with Rimma Students continued to practice Past Tense in this unit within the context of talking about when they were born and where. We recapped the names of the Gregorian months and the Hebrew months and learned 4 digital numbers for the year. We began with their date of birth and ended up with a discussion around some important historical events in the past while practicing how to say the year when it happened. We practiced two and three digit numbers in a shopping role-play, practicing buying and selling items in a shop, asking how much something costs and... Read More
Kindergarten Blog 3/4
Dear Kindergarten Families, We had some unexpected Kindergarten fun this week. Moving from 2D shapes to 3D shapes we were looking at cones and many children were introduced for the first time to a funnel! This led to some water play to experiment with how the funnel worked and ended up with a Kindergartner doing a water show for his classmates and many plastic animals! We also experimented with 3D shapes (cubes, cylinders, spheres, and cones) to see which ones could slide, roll and stack on top of one another! But it was not all fun and games... Read More
3/4/22
We have been learning about stereotypes in second grade. The students first discussed what stereotypes are and learned about the definition of a stereotype – the false ideas that all members of a group think and behave in the same way. Then the kids engaged in an activity collaboratively in small groups where they brainstormed ideas about older people and teenagers. Some of their original thoughts included: Older People – have gray hair, they are slow, like to sleep and watch the news a lot and play card games. Teenagers – talk a lot, like to go to the mall,... Read More
First Grade News
Dear Families, In math, we are working on comparing two-digit numbers. We met a couple of alligators this week, named Greater Than and Less Than. Students learned that math alligators are always hungry, and will always point their mouths at the bigger number! In Hebrew, we are starting to learn all about our families. We read a book about different kinds of families and later we all shared about ours. The first graders were so excited to find similarities and differences with their friend’s families. We learned how to say the Hebrew words for family members like; ach (brother), achot (sister), dod (uncle) and doda (aunt) and then we... Read More
First Grade News
Dear Families, In science, students have been studying different types of clouds. We made flip up posters to show what we learned about cumulous, cirrus, stratus, and cumulonimbus clouds. Check out pictures of them below! Students also learned a song about the cloud types. We are including the lyrics, ask your student to sing with you at home! Our word detectives have solved the case of the “long e” and investigated the vowel teams “ee” and “ea”. First graders have explored vowel teams through word hunts (in books, around the room, and tiny words), mixed up sentences, and creating new... Read More
K Blog 2/18
Dear Kindergarten Families, We had an exciting week of activities with other grades! On Thursday, the Kindergarteners had a fun buddy activity outside in the warmer weather. On Friday, Kindergarteners and 2nd graders read newly completed stories to each other. In addition to the fun activities with other grades, this week we switched from having individually spaced desks to having two groups of desks pushed together to make big tables! The children have enjoyed doing group work and choice activities at these big tables together. In Reading we talked about Sound Power and practiced sounding out some nonsense... Read More