Students in Mr. Guthrie's AP Computer Science A class got their rubber ducks for debugging this week. They are encouraged to explain problems to the duck as a way of mentally processing their code and finding errors that may have arisen. The ducks listen quite attentively, and as you can see they very much like their new fowl buddies.

Despite the rainy weather this week, students in Morah Aviva's ECE4 class had a blast cooling off in the gym twisting with hula hoops, walking on pails, and strengthening their legs and arms as they scooted around the gym with colorful scooters. They also moved on to the letter "Bb" in their Alphabet unit. The children made black and yellow patterns on their letters, added googly eyes and wings, and then attempted to write the word BEE in upper case letters. The class also began their Alef Bet curriculum with the letter Alef, and the students made an avatiach, watermelon, pattern on the letter using crayons and markers.

Students in Mrs. Rosenzweig's middle school BIMA elective are having such a great time learning many different skills in the makerspace. This week students began working on 5 different projects which included coding a virtual reality educational maze, 3D designing a netilat yadayim, hand washing cup, coding an interactive poster board, sewing a double sided bag, and digitizing and embroidering a beautiful hand washing towel.

Rabbi Ouzzan's 8th grade Chumash class enjoyed reviewing the first Aliyah, segment, of Parshat Shemot with Rashi, a Torah commentary, in chavruta pairs this week.

Students in Morah Rinat's 5th grade Hebrew class had a great time getting to know each other completely in Hebrew. The students were each given 2 minutes to ask each other questions and then recite back to the class all that they discovered about their peers. Each week the class enjoys learning and playing a new Israeli children's game.

This week students in Morah Sandy's ECE3A class learned from Parshat Shoftim the concept of Ba'al Tashchit, we are forbidden to chop down fruit trees as that would be wasteful. The students made their own apple tree pictures by using their fore arms for the trunk and their hands and fingerprints for the tops of the trees and apples. They also did an apple tasting and compared the flavors of different types of apples (green won by a landslide!). The students also practiced the Hebrew words for red, green, and yellow.

This week students in Dr. Arnold's 8th grade science class enjoyed learning how to mix a variety of chemicals.

This week students in Ms. Morrison's 4th grade class practiced for their first spelling and vocabulary test by playing a Bean Bag Spelling Game. Each student partnered up with a classmate and tossed a bean bag back and forth as they spelled the words. This was a great connection of mind and movement.

Students in Morah Yocheved's 1st grade Judaic Studies class enjoyed using her special Yad, Torah pointer, for practicing and learning letters one on one.

Students in Mrs. Rosenzweig's 7th grade math class had a great time practicing how to graph ordered pairs in the coordinate plane while sketching different mystery art pictures.

This week students in Morah Clara's ECE3B class began learning about Rosh Hashanah, what it means, why we celebrate it, and all the special foods we eat. They connected these themes with the letters of the week. For A the class spoke about apples, their taste and the colors we can find at the grocery store. For the letter B students learned about bumblebees and bees and what they eat, and how they make honey which we use to dip our apples in. The class practiced their fine motor skills by gluing, coloring, and cutting apples and bees. They also learned all about Parshat Shoftim and how Moshe commanded the people of Israel to choose judges to make rules and laws so that everyone can live a fair life. When Bnei Yisrael entered the Land of Israel, they decided who would be King and what rules he would have to keep.

Ms. Rantz's middle school elective, Plaster Sculpture is diving right into the thick world of plaster! This week students learned how to use plaster strips and powder in the creation of hand and face molds. The challenge this week was being able to release the mold and set their model's hand free!

This week UOS's Rabbi Yitzchak Sprung began a weekly optional shiur for high school students after shacharit. The students are studying a sefer, book, by the Rabbi of the Warsaw Ghetto called Chovat HaTalmidim, A Student's Obligation. Thank you to Rabbi Ari and Mrs. Bashie Kellerman for sponsoring the learning in memory of Sarah Leah bat Yaakov z"l.

Congratulations to seniors Ashley Taibel and Noah Frydberg who have been selected as College Board National Recognition Program awardees. Ashley and Noah earned this recognition because of their academic achievements in school and outstanding performance of the PSAT. Kol Hakavod!

This week in STEAM students in early childhood learned about the parts of their bodies. They took height measurements and labeled life size drawings of themselves. In Lower School students were challenged to a building contest. Students were tasked with building the tallest tower by using either paper cups, index cards, or a deck of cards. They all did a fantastic job working together and persisting through the challenges.

Students in Moreh Ori's 6th grade Hebrew class practiced for their Hebrew spelling test by playing the game Bananagrams in Hebrew!