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This week in Judaics, something interesting happened. The students have been spending a period asking me any questions they want. They have been asking a lot about non-Abrahamic religions. We decided as a class to spend Wednesdays researching a different religion which we will then present t…
This week in history we focused on the end of the Revolutionary War and how the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, finally won the war at the great battle of Yorktown with help from French forces. We heard from King George III in the person of Jonathan Groff, who played that…
This week in social studies, we are focusing on important events in the Revolutionary War. For example, we discussed Washington’s great surprise victory at Trenton, New Jersey, which turned around the course of the war in favor of the Patriots. Another interesting story is that of Benedi…
We studied a sugiyah from the Talmud about Hillel and Shammai’s different views about lighting the Chanukiyah. We also focused on the rabbis’ recognition that there are different levels of observance.
Tuesdays have morphed into “Stump the rabbi” and I survived both weeks. I will…
The 7th grade pre-algebra class is finishing work on their scale drawings, and beginning rate conversions through dimensional analysis.
The 8th graders finished their transformation project, and are working on finding the area of composite 2-D figures.
