Back to a Five-Day Week
Hello Fourth Grade Families!
Thank you all for coming to the Sukkot Parent Breakfast and for praying together with us last week. It feels like it’s been such a long time since we had a five day week of school! As we get back into the full schedule and the days get colder, we would like to remind parents to send kids to school dressed in layers. Unless it’s raining, recess is always outdoors, and we want our students to keep warm. We hope you have a restful weekend, and we’re looking forward to next week.
Shabbat Shalom! -The Fourth Grade Team
COMING SOON:
- Thursday, November 9/Monday, November 13 – Parent Teacher Conferences
- Friday, November 10 – Short Fridays/1:30 Dismissal Begins
HEBREW with Ilana:
This week fourth grade worked on a story “Savta Vehaetrog”. They practiced their reading and had their first recording reading for this year. Please make sure that your kid recorded himself and emailed it to me. They can record themselves on Vocaroo.com and email it to an email address that I created especially for this purpose ilanahebrew@gmail.com ( if the vocaroo not working for you you can record their reading on any other website). Also, the students experienced first time writing a summery of the story. Friday they had quiz on the vocabulary.
JUDAIC STUDIES with Aliza:
This week in Chumash, we continued the saga of Yakov and Esav with the famous and decisive ‘Stew Scene’, wherein Esav trades his birthright to Yakov in exchange for a bowl of stew. We are examining the scene from the points of view of Esav, Yakov, and a neutral narrator. These points of view will be very important to consider later in the Parshah! In Yahadut, we have begun our Ancient Israel unit! The class put together a timeline of the topics we will learn in the unit this year. We also learned about how we count years in history and how historians establish what happened so many years ago. Shabbat Shalom!
GENERAL STUDIES with Miriam:
We had a fantastic and productive week in general studies. In writing, fourth graders are making HUGE headway on their first narrative piece of the year: realistic fiction. They have spent weeks planning, drafting and are heading into revising now. They are really excited to show off their work at the Living Museum coming up in November. Math has been spent explore factors and multiples, two concepts that are easy to mix up, but important to know. The Colonies Quest is well underway in social studies and the new world is forever changed due to these explorers from Spain, France, England and Holland. Lastly, 4th graders are into their first book group of the year. Everyone is reading Sign of the Beaver, a book about a young boy who is settling Maine territory in time after the colonists explore the new world. Job well done on a very busy week, fourth graders!
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