Weeks 3 and 4: Monday, September 18th – Thursday, September 28th
Advisory: This week in advisory, the 8th graders once again stepped up as leaders of the school community. They prepared presentations to help the rest of the students understand the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and what we as a community can do to help. On Monday, they will give their presentations to the other grades and kick-start our relief drive efforts. Hebrew: Dear parents, For the last two weeks, the 8th grade focused on using the structure of VERB + INFINITIVE verbally, in authentic real-life situations. On Tuesday, the students will have a quiz... Read More
Happy 5778!
Dear Third Grade Families, Shana Tovah! – we hope you have had a wonderful start to 5778! Third Graders started many new activities this week, including homework, social studies and narrative writing strategies. Math: Over the past two weeks, we have been focusing on ordering and comparing numbers. Continuing from Second Grade, we use the image of an alligator eating the greater number, when comparing two numbers. In Third Grade, we expand on this by explaining the order of the words. Students are understanding that we answer greater/less than questions by comparing the left number to the right number. For... Read More
Ten Days of Awe
Hello Fourth Grade Families! We hope you all enjoyed your Rosh Hashanah weekends and that your new year is off to a great start! Our fourth graders have been working hard, learning their new curriculum, saying Tefillot with fifth and sixth grade, performing Taschlich at the Gowanus, and meeting their new Kindergarten Buddies! We’re very excited for the upcoming Sukkah Sleepover, and will send information about it in the coming week. Have a meaningful and easy Yom Kippur, and G’mar Chatimah Tovah! -The Fourth Grade Team PEEK AT NEXT WEEK: Thursday, October 5-Friday, October 6 – Sukkot, NO SCHOOL Tuesday,... Read More
First Grade News
First grade mathematicians reviewed number bonds this week. Number bonds help us think of different ways to break apart and put together numbers. First graders explored giant number bonds using hula hoops on the rug. They also made their own number bonds that are on display outside our classroom. When we look at all the writing first graders have done so far, it’s hard to believe this is only the fourth week of school! This week we celebrated all of the writing we have done by having a museum walk. Each first grader picked his or her favorite story... Read More
Tasting Apples, Doing Tashlich and much more!
Dear Kindergarten Families, We hope you had a wonderful Holiday! This week was a lot of fun! We had 5 Mystery Guests: Tovi’s family from Sydney told us about various animals that live in Australia, Yahli’s mom read a fun book in Hebrew “Go Away, Monster!” and created fun monsters with the children, and Abby’s aunt from Melbourn came to visit us and taught us some songs! We also met our 4th grade buddies on Thursday! Our buddies made cards for us and took us on a Scavenger Hunt around the school. It was so fun! Ask your child about... Read More
Second Week of Second Grade
Community Building In class we reflected on what we would like to learn more about, improve on, or try this year. We called these our “hopes and dreams” and when we shared our hopes and dreams we realized that there were many different goals such as, “Speaking more Hebrew”, “Learning division”, “Reading longer books”, and “Making more friends”. We then brainstormed classroom rules to help us accomplish our goals. We organized the rules into three categories: rules that have to do with the classroom, yourself, and others. We learned that as a community we need to work together to support... Read More
Week 2: Monday, September 11th – Friday, September 15th
Advisory: This week in advisory, the eighth graders prepared to perform at the first tekes of the year. Their songs and raps about each of their nine years as members of the Hannah Senesh community was a whirlwind journey filled with warmth and humor. It certainly set the tone of a year of full of fun and engaging leadership. Art: Eighth grade students began the year with color theory. This second week of school they began painting, learning to mix color with acrylic paints. Hebrew: Dear parents, This week the students were busy making short videos talking about what... Read More
September 11 – 15
JUDAIC STUDIES Seventh graders were on a hunt for the origins of Rosh haShana this week, tracing its development through the Torah, the Mishna and the Machzor (the Rosh haShana prayerbook). We discovered that there are multiple ideas of what Rosh haShana is about: it’s a day of judgement and a birthday party for the world; it’s one of the holiest days of the year and it’s barely mentioned in the Torah, and just one of 4 new years described in the Mishna. Seventh graders also explored the different ideas of the relationship between human beings and God described in... Read More
6th Grade News: 9/11 – 9/15/17
HUMANITIES This week in Literature we began our new book, The Epic of Gilgamesh. We looked into the story’s background (or the “story of the story”), and read about its origin as an ancient myth. The tale was found written on buried tablets from ancient Mesopotamia, the civilization that we will begin studying in History class in the coming weeks. In fact, Gilgamesh’s story is one of the oldest pieces of western literature still around today. As students read, they are keeping track of themes such as Heroism, Death v. Immortality, and Strength v. Weakness, and searching for examples of... Read More
Our First Full Week of 5th Grade!
What an amazing first full week of 5th grade! We are so excited to share our week with the Hannah Senesh Community, and we hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. Shabbat Shalom! HUMANITIES: The 5th graders were truly tested this week in Humanities, both with challenging material and the new realities that come with being a middle school student. I am happy to say they rose to the challenge every day! In Writing, students started their Personal Narrative Unit by choosing small moments from their lives to develop into full narrative stories. In reading, students read more short stories, learned about... Read More