December 16, 2022
HUMANITIES Next week, the seventh grade will complete two big milestones in Humanities. They will finish the historical fiction novel, Chains. Students have written thoughtful analyses of the character traits of the book’s protagonist, Isabel, along with creative illustrations representing her character traits visually. Additionally, students are finishing their projects revolving around the story of Ona Judge, an enslaved woman who ran away from George and Martha Washington and was never caught. Through analyzing primary and secondary documents, students have created projects ranging from comic books to diary entries demonstrating the factors that played into Ona Judge’s ultimate decision to... Read More
First Grade News
Hello Families, In the Hebrew classroom this week, we learned the letters kaf and chaf as well as a new vowel, which makes the “Oo” sound. We added lots of words to our word wall like: kochav (star), kefafot (glaves), keter (crown), kelev (dog) and kova (hat). We wrote lots of sentences using the verbs ochel/ochelet (to eat) and ohev/ohevet (to love). We also spent time learning about Chanukah! We read the story of Chanukah – all in Hebrew and also learned how to say the symbols of the holiday in Hebrew. The first grader made beautiful dreidels which we used to decorate our classroom. Next week we... Read More
Kindergarten Blog 12/9
Dear Kindergarten Families, Kindergartners are hard at work preparing for our Learning Celebration next week– we hope to see many of yout to celebrate all that the Kindergartners have accomplished this year so far! This week in Hebrew, Kindergartners began learning words that have to do with Chanukah, like נר ner candle, לביבות levivot latkes, כד שמן kad shemen oil canister, וחנוכיה chanukiah. We also learned how to say a lot of the ingredients featured in לביבות levivot latkes, like תפוח אדמה tapooach adama potato, בצל batzal onion, ביצה beytzah egg, קמח kemach flour, and שמן shemen oil. There are... Read More
December 2, 2022 — Oh the Weather Outside’s Getting Frightful …
Math with Luis Fourth graders have been hard at work multiplying and dividing recently! Before thanksgiving, we had some fun writing, sharing, and solving our own word problems involving multiplication and division. We also had some fun thanksgiving-themed multiplication and division to really practice knowing when to divide and when to multiply. This week, we tackled factors, multiples, and prime & composite numbers, and had some very close Jeopardy games to wrap up the week. Humanities with Hilary 4th Graders have been working SO HARD on their Publishing Party projects [IN PERSON on Wednesday, December 14 at 9am]. They are each... Read More
Kindergarten Blog 12/2
Dear Kindergarten Families, This week, Kindergartners welcomed a new student, Sari, to our Kindergarten class! We also began learning a new song, “When I First Came to This Land”, and the Foxes made their own Play-Doh (Penguins will make it next week). In Science this week and last, we have been learning about taste and smell. Last week, students guessed what flavors of Mike and Ike jelly beans they had based on taste. This week, students observed mint leaves using Sight, Smell, Touch, and Taste. They observed that the mint leaves smelled like mint, and that while the taste was... Read More
3rd Blog – 12/2
Lenape, Lenape, Lenape! We have been engrossed in our research on one aspect of Lenape culture. Though learning never ends, we had to end our research after looking at various sources from books and articles to videos online. Once compiled, we realized we had a lot of information. The next step was to organize our information. We cut out each fact and sorted them into categories and then put them in an order that made sense. Then it was time for writing. Looking at our notes, we found a way to make a paragraph that made sense, rather than just... Read More
First Grade News
Hello Families, In Hebrew, we learned the letter yud as well as a new vowel that makes the “Oh” sound and added new words to our word wall like yam (ocean), yona (pigeon), and yad (hand). We continued to practice our speaking, reading and writing with all the letters and action words that we have learned so far. In Tefila, we learned a new prayer from the Amidah called harotze betshuva. We spoke about what or who reminds us to make good life choices. This week Parasha is Vayetze, which is about Jacob leaving his home to go to Haran, and on his way, he... Read More
12/2/22
12/2/22 December is here! And second grade has been busy growing their brains. Check out what we’ve been up to… Reading: During phonics in reading, the second graders have been learning all about homophones! They figured out jokes like, What did the beach say when the tide came in? Long time no sea! They also discovered other homophones such as to, two, too and where to use each in a sentence. Writing: The students have been busy learning about opinion writing, specifically with reviews of their favorite books that they read in school. We don’t want to divulge too much here,... Read More
First Grade News
Hello Families, In Hebrew, we learned the letters pey, fey and fey sofit (final fey) and a new vowel that makes the “Eh” sound. We added more words to our word wall, like parpar (butterfly),pil (elephant), pitriya (mashroom), perach (flower), patish (hammer), and parah (cow). We also spoke about the life of Hannah Senesh and enjoyed singing a song she wrote called “Eli, Eli.” In Yahadut, we continued working on our siddurim and learned a new prayer from the amida called hael hakadosh, which we thank God for the holy thing (siddur, mezuzah, etc.) and times (Shabbat, chagim, etc.) in our life. We also spoke about the Sigd, an... Read More
Kindergarten Blog 11/18
Dear Kindergarten Families, This week, Kindergarteners were excited to bring in donations for our Thanksgiving food drive, and graph out all of their donations. One thing the K Team learned was that Kindergarten brought in more donations than all other grades combined, so thank you so much to you all for your generous donations! Kindergarteners were also very excited to have another Buddy activity this week. They shared their recently completed Information Books with their buddies, played Racing Dice together, and read books from our library. In Science this week, Kindergarteners learned all about Touch. We learned that we have... Read More