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5th and 6th Grade

Grades 5-6: Week of 2/12/24

Students in Science are learning about Darwin’s finches and bird beak adaptations. They are testing different “beaks” in different “habitats” to determine the beak structure that functions best to support survival in each habitat.

This week in Language Arts, we finished our novel …

Grades 5-6: Week of 2/5/24

Students in Science had a shocking experience with electrostatic force in class. Ask them how they managed to repel the pith ball after “charging the plate.”

Students in Geo-History completed their very impressive slide shows on major events in European history and started presenting. R…

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 5-6: Week of 1/22/24

In language arts we continue reading The Giver and have connected our vocabulary lists from vocabulary from the chapters we are reading. We continue to study grammar. 

In Judaics our parashah work has really revved up! Our questions are becoming more sophisticated. For instance, why does M…

Grades 5-6: Week of 1/15/24

How can it be that humans are not the apex predator on the food pyramid? Ask your student. For Physics Friday, students sticker-bombed their favorite element (well it is, now) from the Periodic Table onto a Bohr atom model.
 
We are catching up with our parashah work this week in Judaics.…