Celebrating Tu B’Shvat and Learning Measurement

Yahadut: Celebrating Tu B’Shvat

We celebrated the holiday of Tu B’shvat with the school. Our sixth grade buddies took us to the school fair. Jed from third grade visited our class to read a Tu B’shvat book written by his grandma.

Israel: Working together on Kibbutz

Yaheli and Yuval taught us about what a kibbutz is. They showed us images from google maps of the kibbutz that Hannah Senesh lived on, kibbutz Nahalal. They challenged us to group cooperation activities, as people have to live and work together on kibbutz. Lastly, students had a chance to use their dramatic skills to act out scenes from a kibbutz cafeteria or field.

Science

Math

This week was measuring mania! In math we have been studying units of measurement, specifically meters and centimeters. We learned how to write these words and how to use different rulers and line up the numbers correctly. We used words such as “taller than” and “shorter than” to describe length and learned the difference between length and width. We loved measuring different classroom objects, and discussed how using a meter stick would be better to measure larger objects or distances, and using a centimeter ruler would be better to measure smaller objects. Using clay we were challenged to make different shapes with specific measurements. Some of us were even more challenged to add all our measurements up together!

Over the weekend, have your child estimate in centimeters the length of different objects.

Art with Iviva:

In honor of Tu B’Shvat, we learned more about the seven associated plants. After drawing images of fig, date, olive and pomegranate trees, grape vines, barley and wheat, we traced our drawings onto foam plates to use for making prints. Some of us even added collage on top of select prints.