This Week at Yavneh Academy

October 22, 2021 | 16 Cheshvan 5782 | וירא

Early Childhood Department

Gan Hey Re-WritesTen Apples Up On Top

In conjunction with our fall and apple units Gan Hey enjoyed reading Ten Apples Up On Top by Dr. Seuss. Inspired by this book each child took the opportunity to write and illustrate a page for our very own Gan Hey Ten Apples Up On Top book. The children decided how many and what item they were going to write and illustrate about. The students' creative ideas included leaves, unicorn horns, rainbows, balls and much more. We were so excited to publish another book and add it to our library!

Ganon Gimmel Discusses Bikur Cholim

In connection to Parshat Vayeira & Avraham’s brit milah, Ganon Gimmel talked about the importance of Bikur Cholim. We learned that while Avraham was healing, Hashem sent three angels on a mission to visit him. One reason they came to Avraham was to wish him a refuah shlayma. The children shared with one another their ideas of how to make a friend feel better if they are sick. They then created a class book which included our ideas such as calling a friend to sing to their classmates a refuah shlayma song as well as bringing treats or toys to their home. We are so proud of the kind and caring middot our students display to one another.

Lower School

Grade 5 Mishnah

There is nothing like cracking open a new book - especially a newly published, kid-friendly, whimsical illustrated Mishnah on Masechet Brachot. The fifth graders have excitedly embarked on their new Torah Study of Mishnah. The students are being primed for this scholarly discipline with an introduction to Torah Shebe'al Peh, and are becoming acquainted with the players, known as the Tanaiim, of the Mishnaic era. As Rambam suggests, each student received the new Mishnah book accompanied by a confectionery to impress upon the young curious minds that Torah learning is sweet.

Meteorology in 3C

Third graders are knee-deep in their study of Extreme Weather & Emergency Preparedness. While exploring weather tools such as rain gauges, anemometers and thermometers, these scientists enjoyed going outdoors to get their very own measurement of the temperature! After recording the exact readings (in degrees Fahrenheit), students used their newfound number rounding skills to estimate how hot it was.

First Grade Global Read Aloud

Yavneh Academy’s Lower School has been participating in the world-wide program Global Read Aloud almost since its inception. This year Mrs. Donna Domb’s Class 1B had the good fortune to connect with a school in Ontario, Canada called OJCS. For our second book, Feathered Serpent and the Five Suns by Duncan Tonatiuh, we Zoomed with the students in OJCS and discussed what makes a legend. We wrote our very first class legend entitled Beauty's Dream. Then we had each class read each other’s legends on Seesaw. Both classes wrote fabulous stories. We discussed how to write kind comments. This tied into our school theme; kindness. We then commented on each other’s stories. We are so proud of the wonderful, respectful, and kind comments the children wrote children wrote.

Middle School

6th Grade Organizational Skills - Week 2

Our second week of Organizational Skills Training had us studying the brain. The concepts our 6th graders discussed included:

How our brains guide all of our actions.
Our brains help us think in more complicated ways.
Our brains help us make plans for ourselves and guide us to better decisions.
As we have gotten older, our brains have become better at helping us think in more complicated ways
Our brains have also gotten better at making plans for ourselves and making better decisions
As we have gotten older, the executive functions of the brain, those functions that help you decide what goals to set and what actions are needed to reach those goals, have been building.
For our purposes, we are going to call those executive functions, our Mastermind

Stay tuned for next week’s update. We will be working on keeping on top of assignments and due dates, storing and transferring material, and planning our nightly and weekly schedules.

Sizzling Science Elective

Each group made a volcano and decided what color they wanted the lava to be. We had eruptions in red, blue and green !!!

Mazel tov to Morah Rachi and Rabbi David Amster on their marriage. Our Middle School students participated in a beautiful Sheva Brachot on Thursday afternoon!

FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE MVP FOR GRADE 6 STUDENTS

Yavneh Academy is participating in

The Annual Bergen County Chanukah Toy Drive.

We are collecting new and unwrapped toys and gifts for children and young adults going through trying times.

The Bergen County Toy Drive is a great collaborative effort across many Bergen County Jewish schools and synagogues and donates to 18 different charity organizations. Your donations will help us share the excitement of Chanukah with thousands of children and young adults. This is a great opportunity to involve your children in the mitzvah of tzedakah!