November 30 — Prospering Publishing Party Posters
Dear Third Grade Families, How wonderful and amazing were the Third Graders today? Seeing the number of smiling faces before, during and after the publishing party was such a sight to see! Thank you to everyone who was able to make it. We hope you learned at least one new piece of information. Starting on Monday, the eight posters will be put up on our bulletin board. If you were unable to attend today, or if you have family who you would like to share the information with, attached to this blog post you can find a Publishing Party Video.... Read More
Weeks 11, 12, and 13: Monday, November 12th – Friday, November 30th
Hebrew These past weeks, the students have been working on preparing presentations comparing the past and present of a place of their choice. The main goal of the activity is to offer the students an opportunity to give a presentation in Hebrew, without reading. I wish everyone a good week, Andreea Heritage להורים שלום השבוע סיימנו את היחידה שלנו על החלטות והתחלנו יחידה חדשה על הגירה. התלמידים התבקשו לשתף עם תלמידי הכיתה סיפורי הגירה משפחתיים שהיו מעניינים מאד. סוף שבוע נעים, אילנה Humanities ELA: Students have finish writing their personal narratives and started their study of The Crucible. Students are engaging in theatre... Read More
Hello Kindergarten Families
Greetings Families! We hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving break! Kindergarten read Thanksgiving stories and made their own square of a quilt to show what they are thankful for! They worked hard on their sounds, shapes, and handwriting to design the quilt square. We have introduced snap words recently, which helps students become more fluent in their reading and writing. A snap word (also called sight words or high frequency word) are words that we see often and do not sound the way they are spelled. They are called snap words because we read them in a snap (memorization) without sounding... Read More
Kindergarten Hebrew Studies
Dear Kindergarten parents הורים יקרים, I hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving! During the past two weeks in the Hebrew and Jewish Studies room we focused on Hanukkah vocabulary and the verb I love – Ani Ohev/Ohevet. We are learning the songs Ner Lee and Banu Hoshech Legaresh and reviewing our new vocabulary with Bingo, and “writing” in pictures from right to left. Sentences such as: Alex Ohevet Sufganiyot. We also red the book Eize Ner Mateem? And learned about the different kinds of candles we have for shabbat, birthday, Havdalah and Hanukkah ad begun using Yesh Lee as... Read More
November 28 — Learning about the Lenape and Preparing for the Publishing Party
General Studies with Hilary Dear Third Grade Families, While last week was short, the learning has not stopped! We have been researching even more about the Lenape culture, as well as life for the Algonquin Tribe (who also lived in this area). Students can’t wait to share their research with all of you at our Publishing Party on Friday, December 1 (aka this Friday!), which will begin at 9:00 am. They have been gaining knowledge about what the Lenape ate, their religion, wampum, clothing and more! For the majority of this week, students were devoted... Read More
First Grade News
First graders have been working hard for the past few weeks! In Math we learned about solid and plane shapes. First graders learned to classify and categorize these shapes. We also learned about tangram puzzles and made Thanksgiving themed tangrams. This week, we began our unit on numbers 0 – 20. We’ve begun learning about place value by thinking about larger numbers in tens and ones. First Graders continued their opinion writing unit by judging a polished rock competition. They picked their favorite rock and wrote about why it was the best. First graders learned about what it means to... Read More
6th Grade News: Pre- and Post- Thanksgiving Edition
HUMANITIES We’ve had a busy week in Humanities since returning from Thanksgiving break! In ELA, 6th graders are working hard on several different projects. For their independent reading projects, students are writing paragraphs and designing a poster to share what they learned from the biographies they read. To tie their work together, they’re all focusing on one primary question: Is the person I read about a hero? Why or why not? Upon reflection, some students have decided they really admire the people the read about, while others feel that they’re not heroes at all. Simultaneously, students are writing their own,... Read More
5th Grade Week of 11/28
Please join our class google photo album so you can see all of our great photos from the year! https://photos.app.goo.gl/TxJ8pei9sRfYkfG76 Humanities It’s been an exciting past couple of weeks in Humanities. We are working on wrapping up our Wonder unit by writing opinion essays in response to various prompting questions. In addition, students are doing a tremendous job working on their Celebrations of Civilizations project. We are looking forward to seeing everyone Dec. 19th! Judaics Last week we finished our first Chumash unit. Students demonstrated their new grammar and root word skills by searching all of the text we studied and sorting... Read More
Greetings 4th Grade Families!
General Studies with Mike: We just began our math unit on whole number multiplication and division. Students have learned the algorithm for two-digit by two-digit multiplication, and will continue to practice throughout the remainder of the unit. Students should continue to memorize their multiplication times tables through the number 12 at home. You can find multiplication games at timestables.com/games. We’re nearing the end of our read aloud, The Tiger Rising By Kate DiCamillo, and are beginning to discuss the literary theme of the story. We define literary theme as a “life lesson,” and identify the theme of a book by... Read More
November 28: Weeks 12 and 13!
Humanities The 7th grade has been busy selecting passages to perform for a Julius Caesar Open Mic, as well as writing about the characters, ideas, and language of the play. Our cumulative vocabulary test will be on Friday, December 14th. I loved playing with words this past Wednesday! Ask your child to see their videos and pictures – they are posted in Google Classroom under the Vocabulary section of classwork. I’m challenging 7th graders to find more balance in their work: repetition is only ONE strategy for learning new ideas, words, and concepts. Memorizing an exact definition by heart won’t... Read More