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Week of April 23rd Finally a full week of school! ASK YOUR CHILD: 1) ...about Jordan's Important Person activity (dry ice) 2) ...about our seed planting 3) ...Is anything in our house symmetrical? 4) ...What plants can we eat? 5) ...What are the parts of a plant?  (root, stem, leaves, flower, seeds) 6) ...What was given to Moses when he climbed to the top of Mount Sinai? Thank you to Jordan's family; Deborah, Daniel and brother Jacob for coming in to do an activity about solid, liquid and gas.  The class was fascinated by the dry ice! JORDAN'S Important Person Activity

We have been so busy learning, exploring and growing (like the new plants in our classroom) that our blog post will contain activities and events from the past few weeks! Please enjoy the photos and details by clicking the link below. https://photos.app.goo.gl/FI5zXdyFm4Y4Bnjj1 Shabbat Shalom,  - Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Liptz -

We've begun a new social studies unit on immigration! We started our learning with a field trip last week to the textile mills in Lowell, where the kids were given a window into the immigrant experience for individuals who came to America in search of work. The children were split into two groups, and half of the class went through all of the activities with Mrs. Solomon and Mrs. Blair.   First, the the children were given passports with information about actual immigrants who worked at the mills, from a variety of different countries and backgrounds.  After passing through an "immigration checkpoint" and learning a bit about the journey from different parts of the world to the mills, students had the opportunity to look through artifacts representing important elements of home for people from countries as varied as Greece, Cambodia, and Ireland.  Back at school a few days later, the class discussed the different reasons why pe...

How do we solve the problem of water scarcity? This was the dilemma presented to all K-4 students on Yom Ha'atz'maut. We discussed the need to conserve and/or reuse water. Below are photos of the solutions our students presented to the client. The prototypes shown in each photo include descriptions from a student in the group. We made a shower that reuses the used water and only stays on for three minutes. We made a thing to put under the shower and when the shower is done it catches the extra dripping. Then you pour it into a tube that goes underground for the plants. We made a timer in the shower and sink. We also made a hole instead of a drain that leads to a tunnel to the plants and animals. We made a coal filter. The water goes through it and the coal sucks up all the debris and the water would then go through the pipes to be redistributed. We made a pipe that when you're in the shower, instead of draining, the pipe leads to a filter, then t...

The fourth grade has been working on animation with our special guest animator, Pell Osborn. Here are some pictures of us using our lightboxes!