The Rashi School | Classroom Blog

 Dear Families, We wish you a sweet and joyful Pesach.  Please enjoy this photo album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/y8Zq8Lidy3adJssK7 Chag Sameach! Sharon and Rachel

Here are some wonderful pictures from the week! Searching for chametz in the classroom! Mr. Mela, our guest reader, read a funny story, The Book Without Pictures . Chopping apples to make Charoset for our Seder Our Kindergarten Seder! Chag Sameach!!!

If your child hasn't told you about the book we recently read, Hana's Suitcase , please ask them about it. It's part of our Holocaust curriculum and it is an extremely moving story about a girl who grew up in Czechoslovakia during World War II, and an amazing woman from Japan who, decades later, worked tirelessly to uncover that story. Today, students presented their final projects related to the book.  The woman from Japan is named Fumiko Ishioka. We shared with the class earlier this week that we will be speaking with Fumiko, over Skype, on Tuesday, April 30th at 8:00am. We are very lucky to have this opportunity. We need to start right at 8:00am because that's 9:00pm in Japan. Please have your child arrive at school on time as we will be opening our door at 7:50am and getting both classes settled before our Skype session.

Once again, our classroom was filled with published authors! Over the past several weeks, each child learned how to revise a story. Our work culminated with a new “revised edition” of a previously published story. The children were immensely proud of their hard work! We celebrated our accomplishments by sharing the stories with a second grade class!  First graders loved feeling and smelling fresh parsley or karpas . We practiced the blessing for a green vegetable, learning that parsley on the seder plate reminds us of the season of Spring. First graders created their very own pieces of parsley and we added it to our bulletin board. Additionally, students created lovely watercolor paintings that featured the ingredients in charoset, a delicious treat on the seder plate. Although sweet to eat, charoset reminds us of the mortar or clay used by the Jewish slaves in Egypt.  ...