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This Week in 3 and 4, April 1

The students started working on their mystery novel book reports on Monday.

They are making mobiles that include the title and author of the book, the setting, characters, and summary.

 

In art, the students continued to work on their landscape paintings. We talked about perspective fro…

This Week in Kochavim, April 1

The Kochavim class has been hard at work learning all about Pesach and singing songs from the Haggadah. We also made a giant seder plate and a game-ified version of the steps of the seder. We played the game that we had created on fun Friday!

In art we talked about different line types and…

This Week in 7 and 8, March 25

This week we began our in-depth study of the Age of Jackson, a key component of which was the rise of the common man, as embodied by Jackson himself, the first president not to come from an influential East Coast family.

 

This week in language arts, we focused on three wonderful

femal…

This Week in 5 and 6, March 25

This week we are beginning our study of the eastern Mediterranean countries, including Turkey.  To introduce the country, which I briefly visited in 2002 on a cruise of the Greek Islands, seeing the ruins at Ephesus, I showed the class this video to give them a sense of the character of the…

This Week in 3 and 4, March 25

In art we started to create a vibrant landscape in which we talked about perspective - things closer to us are bigger than things far away. They were all excited to put their own creative spin into the project.

In music we got a very impressive performance from Anna who did a Hamilton rap w…