In our last full week of STEAM we had a blast learning about vehicles and different modes of transportation. We explored the physics of ramps and tunnels while charting our results with pencils and paint.

6th grade students in Mrs. Rosenzweig's class learned how to make tesselations (covering a surface with a pattern of flat shapes so that there are no overlaps or gaps). The students had fun creating beautiful pieces of math art work.

Mazal Tov to Morah Aviva's and Morah Regina's ECE4 class on celebrating the end of the early childhood grades with a fun siyum. The class put on a beautiful performance for their parents in our colorful outdoor sukkah, showing off all they learned throughout the year. Kol Hakavod!

It was a busy week with many alumni in town! Last Friday, Rabbi Kellerman enjoyed getting together with the Class of 2019 for a little reunion at Saba's, while on Monday afternoon, Beren Stars battled it out on the court against former Beren Stars (an alumni team). It was a close game, but in the end the Alumni crew won by 15 points.

Morah Tsippi's and Morah Suzanne's ECE2 class have been hard at work this week creating special gifts for their Abbas (fathers) for Father's Day on June 20. The students created peekaboo owls saying "Guess whooo loves you!"

ECE4 ended their last full week by learning about Michelangelo! The children observed some of his pencil drawings and emulated his technique of drawing upwards by laying under the table and attempting to draw their own illustrations on papers taped underneath the table. They admitted it was definitely challenging, but ultimately had a blast and drew some amazing pencil drawings!

Students in the Toddlers class (ECE15) and ECE2 enjoyed a visit by lower school general studies principal Dr. Dawn McKernan, who taught them all about ladybugs. The students had fun singing, acting along, and looking at the beautiful pictures of ladybugs. They also got to do mini canvas art of ladybugs using their fingerprints and green paper.

The past few weeks students in early childhood have been working on summer themed artwork.

The art department would like to extend a big THANK YOU to Ms. Cepeda for donating many amazing art supplies. The students in 1st grade were very excited this week to start using the fun scrapbooking supplies to create their own artwork.

Students in Upper school have been wrapping up their semester this week in their explos and electives. In addition to bringing home their semester portfolios, the students have been reflecting and critiquing about the skills, big ideas, themes, and creativity discovered this semester.

Our parent engagement series, Horim Lomdim (parents learn), wrapped up this week. We had such a great time having parents back on campus at night to get to know each other, and our teachers, in a more intitimate setting. Feedback was great, as many parents enjoyed the student experience. Thank you so much to Ziyona Rantz, Rowan Bigham, Rabbi Asher Block, Michelle Renfrow, and Dr. Paul Oberman, who volunteered to teach. The series included ceramic pottery, yoga, dirty pour acrylic art, mathemagic, building brains with Legos, and positivity in parenting. We are looking forward to continuing the series next year! Thank you to all our parents who signed up!

Our newest high school student council is already hard at work meeting and preparing for the 2021–2022 school year. The group consists of Ariel Diner (President, rising 12th grade), Shani Yanowitz (Vice President, rising 11th grade), Eli Gelman (12th grade rep), Avidan Abramson (11th grade rep), Sarah Plumb (10th grade rep), and Liel Vaknin (9th grade rep). Congratulations to everyone who competed in the elections.

This was not a typical year (although a very special and amazing one), so sendoff was not done in typical fashion before the Senior trip, but as a surprise at the conclusion of the graduation rehearsal. Students in early childhood through high school, staff, and faculty, surprised the seniors on the outdoor basketball court with signs and cheers, wishing them luck on all their future endeavors!