Lower School News

In Judaic Studies, third graders have learned about the sixth trial by Avram — and how, after he successfully completed it, Hashem blessed Avram and Sarai by adding Hashem's name to theirs: granting them both the letter ה. The students lent their own creative flair to...

Fourth graders are beginning the year by learning the classic rap "Respect Rap." Using this chanted piece as a springboard, students are learning about musical form and collaborating as a class to composing a unique "B section"—a chorus or refrain—to recognize all of the people, places, and things in their lives whom they respect. These...

The Lower School has start the month in the gym with their "throwing and catching" unit. In this unit, the students have been honing their skills by practicing throwing at specific targets, which range from small to large. They...

Lower Schoolers created a powerful artistic memorial to the nearly 1,200 who were murdered by Hamas last year: they painted a large canvas with 1,200 red kalaniyot (poppies). Kalaniyot are a beautiful red flower that grows in the area of the kibbutzim that were invaded. This...

The Lower School is jumping into the new school year with Art Room musical chairs and a monochromatic self-portrait collaborative mural! First graders will each be assigned a color, which they will use to complete a self-portrait in any style they wish. These portraits will be collected over the next few weeks and displayed together on...

The second-grade students jumped right into the "building a reading identity" unit as they’ve begun learning about themselves as readers. They did this by finding "just right" books in the classroom library, using the "five-finger rule." With this method, the students read one page of the book and put a finger up if there is a word that is too hard to understand or pronounce. After...

Third graders are immersing themselves in their historical fiction unit already! Students have read the books The Memory Coat and When Jessie Came Across the Sea to start the unit. In these books and the connected unit, the third graders learned about immigrating to the United States. The students were even...

It has been the first week of book borrowing in the library! The third graders have been reviewing what they learned last year about navigating the library's roughly 14,000 books. They are reacquainting themselves with the library catalog and exploring the different sections of the collection. This knowledge and exploration...