Hands-On Learning

5th Grade:

Building the Colosseum

Painting the backdrop for the Daintree Rainforest

3rd Grade:

 Preparing to paper mache Mt. Kilimanjaro & painting the Maid of the Mist

Creating a base for the Dead Sea

Designing the Great Wall of China

Taking a break to celebrate Adar and the happiest of our holidays.. Purim!

Thank you to Ms. Kanter for volunteering to represent third grade by running the carnival's cotton candy machine! 

Grandparents' Day

Fifth Grade's Explorer Postcards 

Preparing for Our Guests

 Eating Hamantaschen to Energize for Their Performance

Click here to watch third grade's performance of Beauty and the Beast: Purim

After decorating Purim masks and graggers, the third graders and their grandparents selected between a Grandparents' Day interview, making words from "grandparents' day" tiles, writing about when their grandparents were their age, and a venn diagram.

They then participated in a newlyweds-style game

Using an app called Air Sketch to write their answers

One of the questions was "How many siblings does your grandparent have?"

What's happening in...

3rd Grade Social Studies

A goods and services sort as an introduction to our economics unit

Gearing up for President's Day

Project

Learning how to utilize chicken wire

Thank you Mrs. Warlaumont for volunteering today!

5th Grade Social Studies

Learning from each other's explorer postcards. Here are some of the trading cards they created based on their peers' projects in class today:

by Adin                                                              by Jack

by Kristy

by Noah P.                                                by Jaden

by Jaden

by Drew                                                  by Nathaniel


by Isaac

 
by Drew                                                    by Jaden

by Maddi

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Couldn't Be More Proud

Yasher koach to third grade for leading a beautiful Rosh Chodesh Adar service.

I truly enjoyed seeing the class shine while demonstrating their creativity and presentation abilities during their interpretation of the parsha. 

Thank you to Ms. Wisselman and Morah Mazi for all of their hard work with third grade and also to the parents who made our class oneg possible.

A huge thank you to Mrs. Rabin and Mrs. Fries for volunteering yesterday. We wouldn't have been able to start building the wonders without them!

Third grade is in the design phase of Project. They brainstormed many different ideas as to make their Wonder of the World environment come alive. Sketches of their Wonders have been drawn. Lists of necessary materials for their creation in addition to props and costumes were written on shared documents. Materials have been purchased and are beginning to be put to use. The class is working diligently to construct their wonders as well as practice how they will explain their model. I am very pleased with their level of enthusiasm.

Hoover Dam Engineers

It was a wonderful week with 4th grade in the southwest!  Learning about the building of the Hoover Dam was the most exciting adventure for many children last week. Students acted as engineers to solve three problems: what to do with the Colorado River during construction, what shape to make the dam, and how to harden so much cement. After reading about each of the problems, the engineering groups discussed and drew solutions. The groups presented their solution for each of the problems; we compared them and talked about what the engineers actually did. I was very pleased with the level of enthusiasm.
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