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Dear Kindergarten Families, Chag Sukkot Sameach! Wishing you a happy holiday and lots of time enjoying the outdoors. Please click the link below to view out blog post filled with lots of pictures and details from our week. https://photos.app.goo.gl/mLer3yncMkmUZU6B9 Shabbat Shalom! -Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Liptz-

We had another wonderfully productive week in fifth grade. In science, students conducted their first experiment as they tried to solve the problem of how to keep bananas from getting too brown too soon. Students chose different ways to do this including putting bananas in the refrigerator, covering the stems with a plastic bag, putting the entire banana in a zip lock bag, and storing bananas in a plastic case. We've been graphing our data each day as we measure the percentage of brownness. On Wednesday, we celebrated Sukkot with residents of Newbridge. Fifth graders took the Newbridge residents, who were in wheelchairs, for a walk around the campus and we ended up in the Sukkah for snacks and songs. We also continued our study of prehistory as we started learning about Lucy.

This week's blogger is Shayna! Our First Visit to Newbridge: This week, we went to Newbridge. We read a book about pumpkins. In the book, the people took the seeds out of the pumpkins and they sorted them by 2s, 5s, and 10s to count them. After we read the book, we went to Newbridge. With the residents, we sorted the seeds. We had to each give the number of seeds our pumpkins had. In the afternoon when we finished the book, we found out that the littlest pumpkin had the most seeds (around 378). Pumpkins have more seeds if they stay on the vine longer and if the pumpkin has more lines on the outside, which makes it have more seeds. Darker pumpkins stay on the vine longer too and can have more seeds. Favorite Book This Week: My favorite book so far this week is Leopold . We read it aloud as a class. In the book, Ben didn't want to go to soccer practice because he's not good at sports. In the end, Ben tried soccer out and he loved it, and he even scored a goal. Ben had a

5th Grader Go Bananas During Succot Mrs. Glanz and Mrs. Packer           Accompanying wheel chair bound seniors from Newbridge on a Succot walk is always one of the highlights of the year in 5th grade. The residents loved talking with our kind and attentive students and truly enjoyed being outside on a warm and sunny day. Our visit ended in the large Succah where your children offered their senior buddies juice and cake.          Back in the classroom, the fifth graders learned about a prehistoric young woman named Lucy, completed the first math unit and started the second one which is about multiplying large numbers. Additionally, they wrote "I AM" poems from the perspective of Auggie in the book Wonder. Next they will be writing an I AM poem about themselves.            Finally, our scientists were asked to solve that perennial problem of bananas that ripen too quickly. What can be done to slow down the rate at which bananas ripen

First Graders celebrated Sukkot this week by learning about the agricultural holiday. Activities included learning the blessings, learning about the etrog and lulav, as well as decorating Rashi's Sukkah.        First Graders are also continuing to practice letter names, sounds, and how to form them.