This Week at Yavneh Academy

April 22, 2021 | 10 Nisan 5781 | אחרי מות-קדושים

Early Childhood Department

We Love Earth!

Gan Aleph celebrated Earth Day all week with lessons and activities to help us understand the importance of taking care of our planet. After reading Garbage Galore by Ellen Lawrence, we gained a new appreciation for the mitzvah of Bal Tashchit, as we discovered where all of our garbage goes after it’s taken away in garbage trucks. We learned about landfills and how some garbage stays in the ground for many, many years. We decided this isn’t good, and discussed ways we could try to throw away less garbage. As a follow up lesson in “being a part of the solution,” our class went outside to clean up the trash around the school grounds. It was great to see such enthusiasm, as the children ran around with gloves and bags, collecting litter. What a mitzvah!

Gan Bet Builds in the Mini Makerspace

After celebrating Yom Haatzmaut and learning about various buildings and sites in Israel, Gan Bet has been working on creating structures of their own using materials in the classroom and the Mini Makerspace. They have been prototyping their designs and then working together to enhance their structures and make them durable. We are awesome engineers!

Lower School

Every Day is Earth Day -Trash Art in 1A

The children have grown in their awareness of saving the earth’s resources by learning about reducing, reusing and recycling trash. We joyfully sing “Every Day is Earth Day" and have a trash free snack chart to help the students reduce their waste. They had an incredibly creative experience reusing trash to make wonderful Trash Art creations. Each child became an engineer by planning, designing and creating trash art. Our students are already becoming leaders in caring for our environment.

Third Graders Learn about Important Places in Eretz Yisrael

On Yom Ha’atzmaut, 3D jumped right into the new Ivrit unit of כייף לטייל בישראל, learning all about cities and important places in Eretz Yisrael! Together as groups, they were assigned multiple cities to learn all about! We began learning and traveling from Yerushalayim to Eilat, Herzliya, to the Weitzman Science Center in Rechovot, and more! The students are eagerly working together, delving into the information to gather important historical and current day facts, details and attractions. They will be creating beautiful and creative posters to present the learned information to their classmates, with pictures, videos and creative drawings! Even if we can’t fly to מדינת ישראל today, we can still immerse ourselves in the country from afar!

Middle School

Middle School Mask Sale

As part of our Kindness Counts middle school endeavor 8th graders have been spearheading a Mitzvah Mask campaign. A few months ago three 8th graders, Aiden Frohlich, Brian Jackson and Lily Rosenberg came forward with an idea to raise money for the American Cancer Society and the Dana- Farber Cancer Institute for cancer research through selling masks. Three kinds of masks were sold- Thank You Hashem for Yavneh Masks- customized special for Yavneh Academy (with the Redhawk, of course!), tie dye masks and masks made with a fabric of choice.

While the campaign is still ongoing, so far we have raised approximately $500!

Through buying a mask our students were able to spread chesed instead of germs!

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