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5th and 6th Grade

This Week in 5 and 6, March 3

We have finished our writing for The Giver and will be sharing our theme collages next week.

We have been doing some fun Purim Padlet work on the characters in the Megillah.

This week we had a work day where the students got to work on their individual Music History presentations! Our perf…

This Week in 5 and 6, Feb. 10

We’re finishing our study of Persia, including an exploration of political satire in Megillat Esther and a debate, and heading to Egypt next!

In science, we experiemented with playdough to test buoyancy after lessons on mass, volume and density.

In music we had a theory day in which we…

This Week in 5 and 6, Feb. 3

We’re finishing our study of the ancient societies of Mesopotamia with the Assyrian, Chaldean, and Persian Empires.

We are reading The Giver and students just read a challenging chapter where Jonas recalls a memory of war. We wrote reflections about our reactions to this chapter. 

In so…

This Week in 5 and 6, Jan. 27

We are continuing our study of Hammurabi’s Code and comparing it to U.S. and Jewish law codes.

Last week in art the students learned about the Chinese New Year which was Sunday, January 22 and the importance of dragons to the Chinese culture. They also learned about doing detailed close-u…

This Week in 5 and 6, Jan. 20

This week we studied the first two empires that conquered Sumer (Akkad and Babylon), did a Sumerian economic reenactment, and started studying Hammurabi’s Code.

In the 6th grade Pre-Algebra course, we have been working on dimensional analysis, as well as with percentages, discounts, marku…