Students in Morah Tsippi's ECE2 class began learning about Yetziat Mitrayim (exit from Egypt) this week through interactive storytelling, visual cues, song, and crafts. Students enjoyed making Egyptian Pharaoh crowns that they will be bale to wear.

Sixth-grade students in Mr. Duke's class have begun work on a Texas-sized map of the world, which will be stenciled and painted on the classroom wall of their social studies class. The students will then paint the national flag of each country on the map.

Students in Morah Aviva's ECE4A class began their Pesach unit this week! The classroom centers were filled with matzah aleph bet activities and matzah puzzles. Students painted a Kriyat Yam Suf (splitting of the sea) mural and enjoyed sprinkling brown sand down the middle. The students pretended to be avadim (slaves) in Mitzrayim (Egypt), and added the photos to their mural as though they were really crossing the sea like Bnai Yisrael. The class also began creating their own haggadot, one of several Pessach projects to come in the next few weeks!

This week in Morah Sandy's ECE3 class students learned that in Parshat Shmini Hashem commands Bnai Yisrael to only eat kosher food. Animals must chew their cud and have split hooves, and fish must have fins and scales. The students made folders with pictures representing this, and learned to identify hechshers (rabbinical product certification) on all of their packaged foods.

Students in Mr. Stanulonis's 11–12th grade English Literature class have been learning about Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and how the play manifests the modern experience of alienation and disorientation, a feeling of being cut off from the past with no help of hope or guidance for the future. Students in the 9–10th grade Pre-AP World Literature class have been analyzing Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and how modern psychology illustrates that the desire to have complete freedom and choice in one's life often results in decreased happiness.

Students in Ms. America's 3rd grade class have been enjoying their time in the Innovation Lab researching planets and the solar system.

Students in Mr. Polanski's 6th grade science class learned about the digestive system this week. Students in 7th grade studied weather forecasts. 8th grade students learned about arranging of the chemical elements.