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Grades 7-8: Week of 1/29/24

In social studies we discussed the Balfour Declaration, its significance, and long term impact following an analysis of the difference between ‘nation’ and ‘state.’ We also started our Holocaust unit with the rise of fascism in Germany and how an educated nation fell under the Nazi w…

Grades 5-6: Week of 1/29/24

Science students are meeting up with Darwin and his Theory of Natural Selection by investigating bird beak adaptations. So many islands in the Galapagos and so many different kinds of finch. Ask your student about specialization and how it assists survival.

In language arts, the narrative i…

Grades 3-4: Week of 1/29/24

This week in Math, 3rd graders started doing long divisions (two-digit numbers by a one-digit numbers) while 4th grade began the fraction unit.

In science, 3rd graders used their knowledge of longitude and latitude to compare the global positions of Jerusalem, Israel, and Woodbridge, CT on …

Grades 1-2: Week of 1/29/24

This week in art the students finished their tissue paper/multi-media almond trees.

Grades 7-8: Week of 1/22/24

In social studies class students took an open-note assessment on WWI and the 1920s. We have spent time talking about Prohibition, the pandemic of 1918, women’s rights, organized crime, and the stock boom of the “Roaring ’20s.” We are moving on to the Great Depression, and we will dou…