Gan Gimmel Learns about the Arctic

The children in Gan Gimmel have been enjoying learning about the Arctic. Within our Arctic adventure we researched many Arctic animals. Each child selected an Arctic animal of interest to them to write and illustrate about. We look forward to publishing our book and adding it to our classroom library!

Gan Aleph Celebrates Tu B’shvat

What a terrific Tu B’shvat! Gan Aleph experienced different chag based activities including a sheva minim review, making fruit kabobs, planting grass seeds and an edible garden. Gan Aleph experienced their own Tu B'shvat Seder by sampling the sheva minim, making lots of brachot, hearing a story about a mitzvah tree and singing our Tu B'shvat songs! It was a plentiful day!

Tu B’shvat

Grade 2

Second graders were excited to celebrate Tu B'shvat this week. During meeting time, we discussed a few options for a project for the holiday. We voted for an art project working with pictures of fruits and vegetables. The students enjoyed using their imagination and creativity. They created animals and people with the pictures they chose. The students learned about the fruits and vegetables and of course, the brachot and the meaning of Tu B'shvat.

Grade 3

Six more weeks until spring? 3D doesn't think so. On Monday we celebrated ט"ו בשבט and the sprouting of trees in Israel with our Banot Sherut. They brought in all the שבעת המינים and we had the opportunity to say the different brachot on each food. It was perfect timing as it coincided with the Brachot Bee finals being held today. Our very own Yakira Weinberg represented Yavneh as well as 3D! What a delicious and spiritually uplifting day!

Third Graders Cook Lentil Soup with Morah Dalia

In Chumash class, third graders are ;earning about how Yaakov made this meal after Avraham passed away. Morah Dalia used this as a special opportunity to enhance the students' learning at home. One evening this past week, the students, led by Morah Dalia cooked their own lentil soup at home. Yum!

1E Kicks Off Super Bowl Week

Who will win the Super Bowl this year? We kicked off Super Bowl week with Class 1E learning a brief history of football and who will be playing in this year’s Super Bowl. Then, the students tallied which team had more votes in our class. Ask your children about it!!! All week, we will be playing games to gear up for the big day on Sunday. As always, we emphasized that friendly rivalry is ok but good sportsmanship and middot are more important than winning. Let the games begin! 

Grade 4

Last week, 4th grade completed an SEL unit on perspective taking through learning about the importance of our words and the tones we use to communicate. Each student had the opportunity to roll dice with different phrases on each side, choose a card with an emotion written on it, and say the phrase in a tone of voice that matched the card. Other students in the group guessed which tone of voice they had intended. We concluded the activity with a discussion about how important it is, not only to think about how the words we use may be experienced by another person, but to notice how our tone of voice is being received as well.