This Week at Yavneh Academy

March 4, 2021 | 20 Adar 5781 | כי-תשא - פרה

Sunday, March 7, 2021

Virtual Parent Teacher Conferences will take place from

9:00am - 4:00pm

according to the time slots on the Parent Locker scheduler.

Monday, March 8, 2021

No Sessions

Early Childhood Department

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

This week in ECD we celebrated Dr Seuss's 117th birthday by inviting different administrators to read a Dr Seuss book. We loved listening to them read their favorite one!

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We're Learning about Pesach!

This week in Gan Gimmel we started our Pesach learning with an אביב related lesson. We learned how our new holiday needs to happen in the spring according to the Torah and looked at beautiful pictures of spring flowers blooming in Israel. We looked at the words of the Hebrew song שמחה רבה and identified Hebrew letters we already learned. We then learned the song together and created a class אביב mural complete with colorfully collaged flower prints, and drawings of many signs of spring.

Lower School

First Graders Go Fishing for Facts!

As part of our science unit on the six major animal groups, Class 1D dove right into our latest group - fish! The students researched fish characteristics, as they explored non-fiction texts in depth and learned how to select and highlight important key words from paragraphs. We learned a fun song to help us remember the physical characteristics of fish, which the students then labeled on their fish illustrations. We explored the different levels of the ocean, and created our very own ocean full of fish facts and fun!

Third Graders Make Lentil Soup!

In 3A we learned about how Yaakov cooked a pot of red lentil soup because his grandfather Avraham died. Esav came back from hunting and asked Yaakov for a bowl of lentil soup. Esav sold his Bechorah (birthright) for a bowl of lentil soup! Class 3A together with Morah Dalia also made a pot of lentil soup together on Zoom at home!

Middle School

Do Good Doggies

The 7th graders decorated stuffed animals for ill children as part of the "Do Good Doggies" program. This program is a culmination of their unit in Advisory "When Life Gives You Lemons" which focuses upon the ability to cope with adversity in life. In their Advisory lessons students learn about resiliency and how to bounce back from disappointment in life. They learn other coping skills like positive self-talk, combating negative thinking, stress management, affirmations and self-esteem boosts. All these lessons culminated in the children decorating stuffed animals with positive thoughts for ill children in the hospital. Before beginning the decorating, they were trained by Mrs. Shifra Srolovitz, a Child Life Specialist from NYU hospital, in the “do’s and don’ts” of encouraging ill children. Mrs. Srolovitz shared the experience that children who are ill go through and what strategies they employ to help them cope. The students used that new understanding to employ empathy as they decorated the doggies with encouraging and inspiring messages and cheerful drawings. The stuffed animals will be delivered to the American Cancer Society to be given to the children.

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Grade 7 Bar Mitzvah Event

The 7th grade boys enjoyed a night learning about, and celebrating, becoming Bnei Mitzvah. The night started off with two "round robin" presentations. The boys joined Rabbi Grossbaum's hands-on tefillin presentation. They saw how tefillin are made, what they look like, and what the different types of tefillin are. They also enjoyed a Bar Mitzvah discussion with Young Israel of Teaneck's Rabbi Krohn. After the presentations everyone went to the lower school gym to enjoy a dinner catered by Maadan. In addition to the delicious food, the students enjoyed entertainment from the "Schnitzel Guys." At the end of the evening everyone received a Chumash as a gift from the school. Each Chumash included an individualized label with the student's name, as well as a mitzvah that they were going to try and work on. It was a very special night of learning and fun!

Baking with the 8th Graders

Tuesday night was Baking with Morah Baruchov! We made two recipes; Apple Cranberry Crisp and Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies. The kids had a blast and the finished product was so so yummy!