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Hope, Care, Love, Believe in Yourself and Never Give Up... A Fantastic Start to Social Justice and Tikkun Olam in Kindergarten  September 2017 What a beautiful way to launch our year of tikkun olam and social justice in the Kindergarten with two beautiful stories - The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss and Rose's Garden by Peter H. Reynolds. Each story is about a child who has planted seeds, but as the kindergarten students quickly understood - often times it takes more than just having the necessary things (and they are necessary!) (sunshine, dirt, shovel, water, gloves, seeds) to help something grow. In The Carrot Seed , everyone in the boy's family told him repeatedly that his carrot seed would never come up, but the boy kept weeding and watering his seeds. In Rose's Garden , Rose was patient through each season watching and waiting for her flowers to bloom. In both stories, the children shared something in common - they BELIEVED that their seeds would grow...

Please enjoy the highlight from our day and click the link below for more information and photos.We wish you and your family and meaningful Yom Kippur.  - Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Liptz - https://photos.app.goo.gl/VV8PaUJ5smv9AdYK Penny and Dice Game  Whole Body Listening   Tashlich by the Charles River 

Collecting sticks in Social Thinking to create resolution sticks for the new year of 5778

First Graders reflected on their Tashlich experience in writing and collage. Children carefully looked at a pomegranate and  recorded their observations in their Science Sketchbooks. Students chose one goal to accomplish this fall. Examples of these goals included learning to read, doing robotics, and making peace around the world!  In order to reach these goal, our class worked together to create our "Class Rules." We focused on the "core value" of Kavod --respect! Several children acted out ways to show Kavod in school

                       Social Justice Learning In First Grade... The start of school reminds me of all the promise, opportunity and responsibility that lays before us with the Rashi students, their families and the faculty and staff to genuinely make a difference right here at school, in our own communities and in our world. First Grade students pondered one of our first big Essential Questions this year:         How can one person's actions and words inspire others (and          create a "domino effect") to make a difference in the world? First graders were asked to imagine each domino representing someone in their class and to watch what happens when the first domino (representing someone who has taken action to make the world better) touches the domino in front of it and how all of the other dominoes can be impacted (and inspired!) Then first graders worked ...

First Graders performed Tashlich at the Charles River while singing songs with Stephen We started math centers this week with activities to support our learning. Centers include activities to reinforce finding patterns and attributes of shapes.    We are exploring jumps on the number line to build a foundation for understanding addition and subtraction.  As we deepened our learning of apples, first graders were able to partake in an apple taste test while graphing the results. Our favorite was the Golden Delicious. Check out more photos of our fun past two weeks: https://photos.app.goo.gl/rgjqylzkphSZi2sj2

Fifth Graders At Work 9/28/17 Dear Parents,          Though it wasn't quite a full week, the fifth graders accomplished so much. Last week, they wrote a poem from the point of view of one character from Wonder . Below, you can see the fruits of their personal I Am poems along with a self-portrait featuring words from these poems.         Below you can see the results of an experiment using pendulums of varying lengths (the manipulated variable). After controlling all independent variables, students found that the longer the pendulum, the fewer cycles it swung in 15 seconds.  Great work, Fifth Graders!  We wish you an easy fast and a meaningful Yom Kippur.