This Week at Yavneh Academy

December 24, 2020 | 10 Tevet 5781 | ויגש

Early Childhood Department

Ganon Bet Plants Potatoes!

Ganon Bet loves potatoes! We love latkes and french fries. After making our latkes last week, we found that the potatoes in our classroom that weren't used had started to sprout! This was so exciting. We discussed what we should do with them and decided to plant them! So we did! We hope we will be able to grow our own potatoes and make or own french fries and latkes to share.

1,2,3 Let’s Measure!

Gan Gimmel learned about measurement and discussed standard measuring tools as well as non-conventional ways to measure. Together, as a class, we sorted items from our classroom onto a straight line in length order. We used the vocabulary words shorter and taller. We used our eyes as a measuring tool and sometimes even had to place two items side by side to determine where on the line it belonged. We enjoyed exploring measurement!

Lower School

Seeing Eye Dog Visits Grade 3

Grade 3 students recently began learning about people with hearing and vision impairments and the assistive devices and tools to support these individuals. The students were fortunate to learn from Yavneh’s Grade 3 teacher, Morah Eleorah and her mother, Morah Judy, who have raised many seeing eye dogs. The students learned about the history of seeing eye dogs and the work required to train puppies. Afterwards, each class met Hope, Morah Eleorah’s seeing eye dog-in-training. This special experience was a great way to kick start their unit.

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Fifth Graders Become Chanukah Authors

The 5th grade students became Chanukah authors over the past couple of weeks! The inspiration came from the famous Chanukah book, Too Many Latkes, which is about Chanukah eve with the Small family. Instead of reading the story to the students, the students rewrote their own versions of the story using the illustrations from the book. Many students shared their version of the story with the class and then we read the original story in class!

Middle School

Tomchei Shabbos Chanukah Donut Donation Program

While Chanukah is a time when our children receive many gifts we, at Yavneh, wanted to stress the importance of giving at this time as well and considering others who may not be as fortunate. We were therefore excited to participate in the Tomchei Shabbos Chanukah donut donation program this year.

Our Middle School students had the opportunity to order donuts and for every donut ordered, one donut was donated to Tomchei Shabbos, and distributed to Tomchei Shabbos beneficiaries on Chanukah. Our class representatives helped organize the distribution to our students who cheerfully enjoyed the donuts with the knowledge they were doing a mitzvah at the same time!

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Mrs. Ricklis Awarded Abraham Lincoln Teacher’s Fellowship

Yavneh Acadmy extends a mazal tov to Mrs. Brittany Ricklis, Yavneh Academy Middle School Social Studies teacher, on being awarded one of the Tikvah Fund’s inaugural Abraham Lincoln Teacher’s Fellowships. The Fellowship is an initiative of the Tikvah Fund, an educational organization that provides high-level learning opportunities for students, parents, and teaching professionals in subjects like Western history and literature, American democracy and culture, Zionism and modern Israel, and more.

If you would like to learn more about potential learning opportunities for your own son or daughter, click here or visit https://tikvahfund.org/academy to see their latest menu of evening and Sunday courses online.”