Enter November

Hello Fourth Grade Families!

It’s hard to believe it’s already November, which means Parent-Teacher Conferences are around the corner! Please remember to sign up for a slot with our teachers as spaces fill up quickly.

We’re very excited in the fourth grade because our Living Museum event is coming up soon! Students have been working hard on their projects and getting ready to show them to you. We hope you will join us on November 20!

Shabbat Shalom! -The Fourth Grade Team

This week the 4th grade worked on writing sentences and short paragraph related to their birthday. They had a quiz on the vocabulary. They also worked on comprehension of a story and experienced reading the story and decide independently what vocabulary they need in order to understand it. 

This week in Yahadut, we learned about the life of our school’s namesake, Hannah Senesh. We learned about her childhood in Hungary and about how the changing events of the world and the rise of anti-Semitism led her to reexamine her place in the world and make decisions that would change her life. We talked about discrimination and why it happens, and the complicated feelings that we might have when we hear about prejudice and discrimination today. Students made posters depicting entries from Hannah’s diary and letters she wrote to her family in preparation for next week’s Tekes.

In Chumash, students began learning the special Hebrew alphabet known as Rashi script. They completed worksheets comparing Rashi script with standard Hebrew script in preparation for reading and interpreting their first Rashi commentaries in the Chumash.

Shabbat Shalom!