Dear Third Grade Families, What a week of change! First with the weather — can you believe how warm it has gotten, especially compared to last weekend? Then, more importantly, with the mixing of half groups! Third Graders rose to the occasion, and have smoothly transitioned into their new half groups. Academically this week, we have been diligent investigators in Social Studies and math by learning more about the Montgomery Bus Boycott and bar modeling (respectively). In Social Studies, we concluded our study of Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott. After listening to a read aloud of Rosa, by Nikki... Read More
Week 18: Monday, January 8th – Friday, January 12th, 2018
Hi everyone, Because of the intense preparations for the musical, the 8th grade blog will look a little different these next few weeks. It will focus mostly on showing the amazing work students are doing to make their production of Beauty and the Beast the hottest ticket in town! We will return to our normal blogging style at the conclusion of the musical. If you have a question or would like an update on what is going on in classes other than Humanities, please feel free to reach out individually to teachers with any questions. Warmly, The 8th Grade Team Humanities:... Read More
First Grade News: Week of January 8th
First grade writers have been diving into our new unit on nonfiction teaching books. This week we studied the book “Sharks” by Anne Schreiber and noticed how she uses pictures to add more information. She zooms in on important parts, and uses arrows and words to point out details. In math we learned new strategies for addition with double digit numbers. We learned the “make 10” strategy and “doubles plus one.” First grade scientists began a new unit on organisms. The discussed the differences and similarities between plants and animals. Our Martin Luther King Tekes concluding our... Read More
Learning about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., snow exploration, shapes, fairy tales and much more!
Dear Kindergarten Families, We had a great week back in Kindergarten! In Math, we continued learning about various geometric shapes: flat and 3D (or solid). The children reviewed the shapes that we learned last week: squares, triangles, rectangles, circles, ovals, hexagons, cone, pyramid, cube, cylinder, sphere, and rectangular prism. Please help your children continue to practice these shapes at home by playing “I Spy a …. (cone, cylinder, etc.).” We have been also reviewing numbers 0-20 and working on patterns. While learning about rectangular prisms, we read a book “Not a Box” by Antoinette Portis and acted out the story. The following... Read More
Mid-January
Hello Fourth Grade Families! Thank you to everyone who attended our Martin Luther King Jr. Day Tekes! The fourth grade put a lot of work into it, and they did an amazing job. We have exciting times coming up, including our first ever trip to the Brooklyn Autism Center (BAC) for our social action project. We’re really looking forward to it! Have a relaxing long weekend and Shabbat Shalom! -The Fourth Grade Team PEEK AT NEXT WEEK: Monday, January 15 – MLK Day, NO SCHOOL HEBREW with Ilana: This week the 4th grade worked on Student Day – Yom... Read More
Week 17: Tuesday, January 2nd – Friday, January 5th
Hebrew: Dear parents, The month of January is designed as a month of individual study. the students receive assignments ahead of time and are supposed to use classwork to consult with me in order to complete the assignments successfully. The individual study is an important skill that will benefit them in high school. I wish you a warm weekend and a happy new year, Andreea Humanities: Literature and Writing: Happy New Year everyone! This week, we started our unit on William Shakespeare’s Othello by learning about critical lens and how they are used to analyze art. We learned about postcolonial theory... Read More
6th Grade News: 1/2 – 1/5/18
HUMANITIES After the long vacation, 6th graders were able to jump back into work in Humanities classes. Everyone had finished their ancient Egypt historical fiction novel over break – either Pharaoh’s Daughter or The Golden Goblet. We discussed how we felt about the books’ endings in our mini book clubs, and then continued examining the literary concept of plot pyramid. In History class, students read about a current event related to the Nile River in order to draw connections between ancient and modern times. They learned about how Ethiopia is currently building a large dam on the Nile River, and... Read More
January 2nd – January 5th
Judaic Studies The 7th graders began our second unit on the book of Bmidbar this week. Students translated the first 3 verses of chapter 11, developed kushiyot (text-based questions) about them, and looked at answers from mefarshim (commentators) including Abarbanel, Rashi, Sforno, and Ramban. Our goal for this unit is to practice developing and answer excellent kushiyot, and to explore how the mefarshim deal with difficulties in the text. We began by looking at the word כמתאוננים/ like complainers. Why are Bnai Yisrael described as “like” complainers? What are they complaining about? Why doesn’t the Torah tell us what they’re complaining... Read More
Welcome Back! Week of 1/2
Hello 5th Grade Families! We hope you had a wonderful break, and a safe and warm snow day! We’ve had a short and busy week; please enjoy the updates from 5th grade teachers below, and have a good weekend! HUMANITIES: The India Pavilion is almost here! We look forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday, and we can’t wait to celebrate the students’ hard work with their families. We have spent much of this week making final preparations for the Pavilion, and have set expectations and schedules for the day itself. We also have taken some time to reflect on the past... Read More
A Snowy First Day Back – Happy New Year!
Dear Third Grade Families, Happy New Year! What a whirlwind of a first week back! We hope that everyone stayed safe during Thursday’s “Bomb Cyclone” winter storm. Over our few days back in school, we started a new math unit as well as a mini social studies unit on the Civil Rights movement. In math, we have moved onto word problems, for addition and subtraction. Word problems integrate literacy with math and are connections, for students, between school and the real world. To visualize the concepts in a word problem, students can use the bar model method as a strategy... Read More