6th Grade News: 5/7 – 5/11/18
Science This week students finished their STEAM project. This was a long road of hard work in designing, creating, and building their informational disease games. The students worked extremely hard and had the opportunity to shine during our expo. We could not be more proud of every student’s hard work during this process. Let’s just take a moment and reflect on how far our students have grown as scientists during this year of science. Cannot wait to finish the year strong with our final science unit. Mike Noll and Samantha Butwin... Read More
5th Grade Week of 5/7
Another successful week in 5th Grade! Thank you to everyone for your kind gifts and thoughts for Teacher Appreciation Week. Please enjoy our class updates, and have a good weekend! BAC photos: Humanities: This week in Humanities, students dove in to their book club units. They did an excellent job of owning their independent work time and keeping their groups on successful tracks. We also continued working on our China Museum projects, and we prepared for the ERB. Shabbat Shalom!-Tony Math: Fifth graders spent the week reviewing for the upcoming ERB. Please remind your child to bring a calculator on Wednesday, May... Read More
May 7 – May 11
Math Seventh graders spent the week reviewing for the upcoming ERB. Please remind your child to bring a calculator on Wednesday, May 16th for Math Part II. After the ERB, the classes will resume and learn unit materials: 7X on Volumes and Surface Areas of Solids (unit 13) and 7Y on Probability of Simple Events (unit 16). 4th progress report of the second semester was sent with your child today and it should be signed and returned by no later than Thursday, May 17th. All current incomplete corrections or missing assignments for the second semester should be turned in no later... Read More
Math, Math, Math!
Dear Third Grade Families, Our first full week of May has gone by in a flash! We’ve had two rehearsals for our NYC Play, numerous math lessons, a strong focus on research writing (or information writing), book clubs and social studies. Math: We have talked about many topics this week, some of which we will be going more in depth with next week. For fractions, we looked more closely at equivalent fractions AND how to make a whole by using pattern blocks. Specifically using the red trapezoid, the blue rhombus/parallelogram, and the green triangle. The goal was to find as... Read More
Week 33: Monday, May 7th – Friday, May 11th
Hebrew Dear parents, This has been a very productive week for the 8th-grade students! The students have been busy writing a short autobiography in Hebrew. The final draft of the Autobiography is next Wednesday, May 16th. I wish everyone a relaxed weekend, Andreea Heritage ,הורים יקרים השבוע המשכנו בלימוד זמן עתיד תוך כדי הטיית פעלים וכתיבת משפטים. התלמידים נבחנו על אוצר המילים שלמדנו ביחידה ובנוסף, .השינשינים הגיעו אלינו וערכו פעילות מהנה תוך הכנת כדורי שוקולו סוף שבוע טוב, אילנה Humanities Literature and Writing: Students continued their work with Night. We examined the moral universe of Auschwitz and looked at how... Read More
Special Visitor and Hebrew Party
Hebrew Celebration We had a special celebration in honor of finishing the script Aleph Bet and all our hard work in Hebrew this year. Activities included: Hebrew charades with notes made by students Sharing written work in partners Doing gematriya and word find activities made by students Wearing handmade letter crowns Made words and sentences from treats Social Studies To close our unit on the Caribbean we were so lucky to have Georgia, Rohan’s babysitter, come in and talk about her experience living in Jamaica. The second graders prepared questions for Georgia to learn more information from... Read More
First Grade News: Week of May 7th
This week the first graders found out the winner of the Irma Black Awards. The winner is “7 ate 9” by Tara Lazar. We reread it to celebrate! In Science we used venn diagrams to compare and contrast aquariums and terrariums. Next week, first graders will create giant murals depicting our aquariums and terrariums. This week they sketched how it will look and brainstormed a list of materials. First grade mathematicians revisited addition with regrouping this week. We remembered how to add the ones place first, and then the tens. First graders continued practicing adding using the vertical algorithm. Our... Read More
The Weather Warms Up!
Hello Fourth Grade Families! It’s hard to believe, but we’re down to the last five weeks of the school year! In fourth grade, though, that doesn’t mean the learning slows down. Students have been extra busy working on projects, preparing for the ERBs, enjoying food-based lessons in Hebrew, learning about Megillat Ruth in Judaic Studies, and getting ready to take their Israeli Restaurant Field Trip this Monday! How can you help your fourth grader prepare for the ERBs? Make sure they get a full night’s sleep the night before and eat a good breakfast before they come to school. While they... Read More
Grandparents and Special Friends Day, Brooklyn Museum and more!
Dear Kindergarten Families, We had a week full of learning and fun events. The children enjoyed the trip to Brooklyn Museum learning about “Animals in Egyptian Art.” Thank you to all the chaperones for helping us to have a safe trip. Thank you, Zina, Lisa, Shira, and Jen! In Math, we began our unit on word problems. We practiced making up addition stories, asking mathematical questions and learning how to turn them into number sentences (3+4=7). In English Language Arts, we continued our Poetry unit. The children learned about and practiced writing acrostic poems. First, we wrote poems where... Read More