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5th and 6th Grade

Grades 5-6: Week of 1/8/24

In Science Class, students learned that humans are not the apex predator in the trophic pyramid. Ask them what is.

In Language Arts, students continued reading their shared novel The Giver and are learning vocab in context. They are analyzing and posing questions about the text.

In Judaics…

Grades 5-6: Week of 12/18/23

In Science, the last part of the ecological pyramid belongs to the decomposers. Students appreciated the decomposing talent of yeast acting on sugar: the CO2 emissions of the yeast in action inflated Ezra green balloons, and the science classroom smells like a bakery.

In Language Arts, stud…

Grades 5-6: Week of 12/11/23

In Science, 5-6 tried to thwart gravity to construct very tall straw towers.

In Judaics, we continued our discussions of “problem” in the text of the parashah.

After some preempted classes for the show, in Geo-History students began or continued their deep dive on an assigned European…

Grades 5-6: Week of 12/4/23

For 5th grade Math, we started the unit about fraction and learned about the connection between fraction and division. 6th graders have been learning about the commutative, associative and distributive properties.

This week in Art, the students finished painting their Mexican Candelabras. T…

Grades 5-6: Week of 11/27/23

This week in Language Arts, we worked on vocabulary. We also finished our preparation for the trial of Mrs. Maloney from ‘Lamb to the Slaughter.’ We are waiting for Mr. K to come back from Israel (where he’s volunteering) until we actually have the trial. Meanwhile, we began reading Th…