Message from Heather Moore, Head of School
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Dear Parents,
I hope everyone enjoyed an extra hour of sleep this past weekend and remembered to set their clocks back. The practice of Daylight savings time celebrates its 101
st
this year. Daylights savings time was initially enacted during World War I as a way to save coal by adjusting the clocks to accommodate for more day light during the day. Today, some states want to make daylight savings time permanent and others want to do away with DST all together. What do you think? Start your own inquiry…..
Inquiry happens everywhere… Just ask our second grade students who visited an
Escape Room
this week. In the Escape Room, the students were stuck in detention and needed to get out! Our students learned to ask questions, used their knowledge base to answer other questions and collaborated with their peers to reflect, review and revise their conclusions to ultimately solve the case and get out of detention. Inquiry-based learning builds on students’ individual knowledge and interests emphasizing learning how to learn and how to discover. Great job
Mrs. Carnazza
and
Ms. Ben Moshe
for ensuring that learning in second grade is engaging, relevant and challenging! Upon arriving back from their Escape Room experience, the second graders agreed that they needed collaboration, communication and perseverance to figure out their escape from detention!
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Shabbat Family Singalong this Friday, November 8th at 9am in the MPR.
New IB Report Card Preview:
Learn about the new Report Card format
Friday, November 8 before and after SIA Shabbat Family Singalong
- Primary Years (Grades 1-5) at 8:30am in the MPR
- Early Years (EY2 - EY4) and Kindergarten after Shabbat Singalong in the MPR.
Parent-Teacher Conferences:
EY (EY2-EY4) Parent-Teacher conferences are coming up!
- Tuesday, November 5, 2019 from 4:00pm – 7:00pm
- Tuesday, November 12, 2019 from 4:00pm- 7:00pm.
Please make sure to sign up through ParentSquare!
Campus wide Lock Down Drill:
The campus will conduct a lock down drill on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at 9:15am. If you are in the building during the initial lock down, you will be required to participate.
Beyond Early Years:
Please mark your calendars for
Beyond Early Years Parent Coffee
on Friday, November 15, 2019 @ 8:30 a.m.
We will provide an overall view of Kindergarten through Fifth grade at SIA! You will have the opportunity to meet our K-5 teachers, parents, students and alumni. In addition, we will go over our K-5 affordability program and the JCC Kids Connection after school program.
Please RSVP in ParentSquare.
Hope to see you on November 15
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Below you will see some reminders for next week.
Shavuah Tov,
wishing you all a wonderful week ahead!
Heather Moore
Head of School
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The Primary Years IB Highlights
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Part of the
IB philosophy
includes encouraging our students to take
ACTION
using their newly acquired knowledge.
Ms. Conley's
science classes have been researching the environment and climate change. Fourth grade students noticed pollution problems in our city and wrote letters addressing the issue. Fifth grade students learned about
Greta Thunberg
and other environmental activists. They wrote essays on ways that they could take action in their personal lives to combat climate change.
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A rich week of learning for two year olds!
By Lorna Orleans, Director of the Early Years Program
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Dear Families,
Last week I wrote about the collaboration of our four year teachers. This week I wanted to focus on learning in the two year old program.
All of our classes (EY2-EY4) continued with activities about the Torah portion, Bereshit (creation). There was so much rich learning going on with connections everywhere happening between the story of creation and the cycle of the seasons. There were connections and reflections about how the story of creation could tie into the IB inquiries each class was exploring.
But, I wanted to particularly share the interconnection of learning experiences for our two year olds.
You know learning doesn’t happen in a vacuum; it is always integrated and connected. So, while creating an art representation of light and darkness, our two year olds also honed their fine and gross motor skills. They made broad strokes of black paint on paper to represent dark and then exercised their fine motor muscles by using scissors for the first time to snip yellow paper which they glued to the black. They developed their language skills when they were asked, “What would you do if it were dark all of the time?” My favorite answer was “Sit and eat cake.”
So much learning in the two year program is about exploring the world around us through out senses. Our two year olds ate the sky (Day 2 of Creation) and wondered what clouds would feel like while exploring a sensory bins filled with white fluffy things. On Day 3 (plant life appeared) and our two year old friends explored, as a class, our campus grounds and all the growing things they could find. This supports an important element of their learning, an understanding that they are part of a classroom community. While exploring together and following classroom rules this concept gets reinforced. This learning unit was also full of literature enrichment as our learners heard a wide variety of books related to the world around them.
Kudo’s to our two year old teachers for a rich week of integrated learning and fun.
Shavuah Tov,
Lorna Orleans
Hav
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Learning to use scissors.
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So many books to read about our world.
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Exploring as a community of learners.
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Exploring light and dark.
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I wonder what clouds feel like?
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A NOTE FROM NURSE SUSAN...
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Inbal Arieli
Serial Entrepreneur and one of the 100 Most Influential People in Israeli High Tech
Wednesday, November 6
7:30 PM
Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus
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Despite its small size, Israel attracts more venture capital per capita than any other country on the planet. What factors have led to these remarkable achievements, and what secrets do Israeli tech entrepreneurs know that others can learn?
Born and raised in Israel on hummus and chutzpah, tech insider
Inbal Arieli
goes against the common belief that Israel’s outstanding economic accomplishments are the byproduct of its technologically advanced military or the result of long-standing Jewish traditions of study and questioning. Rather, Arieli gives credit to the unique way Israelis are raised in a culture that supports creative thinking and risk-taking. Growing up within a tribal-like community, Israelis experience childhoods purposely shaped by challenges and risks—in a culture that encourages and rewards chutzpah.
Reserve your seat now
to hear from Inbal Arieli and discover the secret behind how Israel, a tiny country with the highest concentration of start-ups per capita worldwide, is raising generations of entrepreneurs who are disrupting markets around the globe and bringing change to the world.
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