This week in STEAM we learned about Thanksgiving! We dissected and investigated the inside of pumpkins and made our very own turkeys!

Students in Morah Tzippe's 2nd grade Chumash class learned about the Vav Hahipuch (the turn around vav that changes the tense of a word in Hebrew) and then created their own pictures of the vav hahipuch turning around in creative and fun ways.

Lower School students and families enjoyed spending Sunday on campus for a fun family yoga activity. Check out all the fun here. Students enjoyed making chalk murals while parents got to spend time with new and old friends.

Fall, Thanksgiving, and Parashat Toldot kept Morah Aviva's ECE4 on their toes all week! The class worked together to make a turkey mural with fork prints. The students also made two sided Yaakov and Esav paper bag puppets, fall tree paintings, and paper plate turkeys, on which they labeled each feather with a letter of their names.

Students in Mr. Duke's middle school Photography Explo studied the work of David Hockney and, in his style, created composite portraits of themselves and others on campus.

In Shiurei Tzionut (class on Zionism), lower school students learned about Chag HaSigd, a special Jewish holiday that originated in Ethiopia. The students learned about the Jewish people in Ethiopia, and how they would gather together on this holiday (which is still celebrated today, in Jerusalem) to read from the Torah and thank Hashem for keeping them together as a nation. They also learned about Ethiopian culture.

Upper School Sources of Strength Committee members created a fun family trivia game for lower and upper school families to connect over some of the upcoming breaks. November's theme was family support. To play the game with your family click here and print out the questions.

Students in lower school are invited to design and build a kosher menorah. Grade level winners will be announced on December 11. Completed Menorahs are due on December 9. Staff are invited to participate and compete in the staff division. Good luck! We can't wait to see all the creativity.