5th Grade Week of 5/22
What a week! The sun is out, and we are winding down the year with a few more weeks to go! Please enjoy our classroom updates below, and have a lovely long weekend! Mindfulness Advisory this week: Partner Yoga! Humanities: This week in Humanities, we continued our book club unit, and explored elements of fantasy, themes, and the concept of friendship in fantasy books. We also concluded our essay portion of the China Museum project. Can’t wait to see everyone June 5th!-Tony Math: This week, the fifth graders learned to express fractions as decimals, multiply and divide decimals by 10s, 100s, and... Read More
Schnitzi restaurant, science exploration and much more!
Dear Kindergarten Families, We had a week full of learning and fun activities. We had so much fun visiting Yahli’s family’s restaurant and learning all about those who work there! In Math, we continued our unit on Subtraction. We practiced making a number sentence out of a “how many more?” problem. We learned how to look at pictures of items and compare which one has more and write a number sentence to describe the problem. We also learned how to solve simple subtraction problems. In English Language Arts, we continued our Non-fiction/Informational writing unit. We wrote science books titled “Who... Read More
5th Grade Week of 5/14
What a week! Please enjoy our classroom updates below, and have a restful long weekend! Humanities: In Humanities this week, we continued our Book Club Units, and discussed important characters, settings, and events at the beginning of our various texts. We continued our China Museum Projects in Social Studies, and took a much needed break after ERB’s. Have a lovely Shavuot!-Tony Math: After the standardized test, fifth graders learned to add and subtract decimals, and multiply and divide decimals by a 1-digit whole number. Next week, the class will learn to change fractions to decimals using long division, multiply decimals by 10... Read More
Plants, Landforms, Chumash Practice, and Weaving
Chumash We are busy preparing for the Chumash Play next Thursday. Students have been memorizing lines and working on four songs and dances. This week we used the stage for the first time, and learned how to stand on stage and project. There is so much to prepare and remember as we get ready for next week’s performance, and the students are working super hard and helping each other. We can’t wait for you to see all our hard work next week! Social Studies This week we delved in to learning about different landforms. Second graders shared land forms... Read More
Kesher Day and Lag Ba’omer
Kesher Day General Studies Activity For Kesher day in the general studies class we began by talking about a growth mindset and how we can help ourselves when we are having strong feelings. We read the book Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg, a story about all the different mistakes that can happen on a piece of paper like tears, holes, spills, and stains, and different ways to fix them. We described the author’s message about what we can do when we make a mistake, like stay calm and think creatively. Then,our special guests for Kesher Day were asked to make... Read More
Special Visitors and Finishing the Aleph-Bet
Israel: Visitors from Eight Grade Second graders have been following the adventuresses of the eighth graders in Israel through their blog and pictures for the past two weeks. Now that the eight graders are backed, we invited a few to visit our class so that we could hear more in person and ask them our questions. They each told us about their individual trip highlights and something new that they learned in Israel. Hebrew: Learning our last letter of the Aleph Bet! We learned Phey Sofit, our last script letter! Students were so excited to have finished the Aleph Bet,... Read More
April 27: The Statue of Liberty, Book Clubs and Fractions — Oh My!
Dear Third Grade Families, Another week has gone by, and there’s still so much to learn and do before June! We have rescheduled our Brooklyn Bridge trips for May (which are listed towards the bottom of this section), which is very exciting, and we are also headed to Ellis Island at the end of the month. We look forward to exploring some of our community members’ family members, who stopped at Ellis Island on their way to America. Math: This week, we delved into fractions, specifically looking at how to create whole numbers when the denominator is the same. Connections... Read More
Shabbat: Friday 4/20 – Saturday 4/21
Hi Everyone! It’s been a busy and wonderful two days — the 8th graders visited Shuk haCarmel and Nachalat Binyamin in Tel Aviv, and then headed north, stopping at the Arab-Israeli coexistence village of Shefa-Amr. Shabbat on the Kinneret today was lovely and restful, and included a visit to a water park at the hotel next door! At the end of Shabbat, the group went to Tiberias for a disco boat cruise and a fun night out. Photos below of the group learning about Shefa-Amr and getting ready for Shabbat — plus a great movie of tonight’s disco boat cruise... Read More
Day 8, Wednesday 4/18: Erev Yom haAtzmaut photos
Here are photos from last night’s celebration in Tel Aviv on Kikar Rabin:
Day 6, Monday, 4/16 – blog post from Chaya and Maia
Hello! Today we woke up bright and early at 4:00 a.m. We then hiked up the Roman ramp to Masada and watched the sun rise as we prayed. We also got a very interesting tour of the mountain fortress. After that we took a cable car down the mountain and ate breakfast. Then, we drove all the way to Eilat and went snorkeling and banana boating in the Red Sea. It was really nice to cool off in the water. We just checked into out hotel and showered. We are about to eat dinner and go to the mall which... Read More