February 5th – February 9th

Math

7X have been working on a challenging unit this week, “Number Patterns.” They will be taking their unit test on Tuesday, February 13th, and will begin a new unit starting next week, “Coordinates and Linear Graphs.” In this unit they will learn to construct the Cartesian coordinate system and state the coordinates of points on it, plot a graph of a set of ordered pairs, draw the graph of a linear relationship, define linear relationships between two variables, and find the slopes of linear graphs.

7Y have been working on a new unit, “Coordinates and Linear Graphs.” Apart from taking a test for this unit, they are working to complete a set of challenging problems, which is due on Tuesday, February 13th.

Judaic Studies

We completed our study of Chapter 11 of Bmidbar/Numbers. Students shared incredible answers to our final kushiya: what is the significance of Bnai Yisrael naming the spot where they are punished by God “קברות התאווה”/the Graves of Desire? Why would they want to bury the feeling of desire? Is getting rid of one’s desire a good thing?

Next week students will work on their final projects for this chapter. Today, they selected among several different choices, created their own rubrics, and began work.

Shabbat shalom,

Jessica

Humanities 

Students continued their exploration of narrative writing and short stories by reading “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Rule of Names.” Students brainstormed about their narrative writing and shared their writing with the narrative partners. We using the week before break as a study week for vocabulary – we’ll be drawing the words, acting out the words, reviewing the words, and having fun with the words!

In history, we are beginning to examine the factors that contributed to the decline of feudalism and the Middle Ages. We surveyed a number of secondary sources and practiced our listening comprehension skills.

Hebrew Heritage

הורים יקרים,

אנחנו מתקרבים לסיום היחידה שלנו “כתיבת סיפור אישי”, התלמידים כבר מצויים בשלבים מתקדמים של כתיבתו. ביום שישי זה לרגל חגיגות יום עברית בבית ספר, התלמידים נתבקשו לעבד קטע מעבודתם בכדי להציג אותה בפני הכיתות הנמוכות, הם התרגשו מאד אבל עשו עבודה מעולה – כל הכבוד!!!

בנוסף, השינשינים הגיעו אלינו וערכו פעילות מרתקת על ישראל ודמוקרטיה.

היה נעים לפגוש אותכם בגאלה אתמול, המשך סוף שבוע טוב.

אילנה

Science 

Students this week learned more about how water is filtered in water treatment plants. They also created a second version of their custom water filters, improving from their first design. Students were excited when the first drops came out of their filter. It was enjoyable to see the class take pride in their improved water filter devices.

 

Hebrew

 

Hebrew

This week in class we started a new unit on “The usage of smartphones”. We read short conversations about using smartphones made lists of pros and cons and spoke about the dangers of using social networks using vocabulary that was new.
In addition, Students were exposed to the tense of “Command”.
They learned how to identify the tense in texts and several reading comprehension activities on the material.

side note – The J group were given their quizzes back, they should be signed and returned by Tuesday.

Yehuda