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This Week in Kochavim, Feb. 4

In Kochavim, the children learned about the history of Groundhog Day. During reading they learned about Groundhogs. They recorded their predictions and made Groundhog crowns. We also celebrated 2's Day on Wednesday 2/2/2022, the children enjoyed participating in different activities that inv…

This Week in 3 and 4, Jan. 28

This week in Writing we are working on an Opinion Essay. The writing prompt is;

“Which do you like better cold weather or hot weather? Why or why not?”

The students writing a minimum of 5 paragraphs: an introduction, 3 supporting reasons, and a conclusion.

 

The students were so ex…

This Week in Kochavim, Jan. 28

This week in science we started a unit on Space. 

The children have been reading different books about Space and sharing what they learned and know about different planets with one another. They learned what gravity is and after learning about gravity and discussing how we weigh one sixth…

This Week in 3 and 4, Jan. 21

Third graders played a game of online Jeopardy to review the 6, 7, 8, and 9 tables! Part of the fun was creating a team name. Everyone wanted to have long names. They quickly realized they would have to shorten the team names considerably.

For art the students made paper snow people that th…

This Week in Kochavim, Jan. 21

The children listened to the story Happy Birthday, Tree S Tu B'Shvat story and then wrote a summary about the story. During writing the children were given 2 paper leaves. On one of the leaves they wrote about what trees give us. On the other tree the children wrote their promise to trees. …