POWER OF JEWISH CHILDREN competition

Tzivos Hashem is celebrating their 30 year anniversary with a special competition for Jewish Children!


We are encouraging our children to join! I have discussed it today with our class and it sounds like that we all have lots of ideas and were excited about it. We each took home a flyer to show to our parents.

There are 3 awards to choose from:

• The Heart Award: Chessed - act of kindness




• The Hand Award: Performance - display of talent




• The Head Award: Acheivement - exceptional studies
  

Your Child can choose together with you which award they would like to compete in. Then, you can submit your childs work on http://www.powerofjewishchildren.com/.

This is a great opportunity to join in with tens of thousands of Jewish Children worldwide, imbue Jewish pride, and produce a great project. It is also really simple and easy to join and there are loads of prizes to be won!

Check out flyer and website for more info...

Science - End of Chapter 3

We will be having a test on Chapter 3 on Tuesday 21st Dec.
We have kept the 4 lessons of this chapter inside our homework folders so we can study and review for the test.

Students can read through their lessons and answer the checkpoint questions to themselves. An adult reading with them and checking for understanding can help us too!

Upcoming Trip: Tue Dec 21st - Brooklyn Historical Society

We will be taking a one hour guided tour called "It Happened in Brooklyn":

students will meet a diverse range of residents from Brooklyn's earliest Native american settlements, to the men and the women who fought in the revolutionary war on Brooklyn's shores, to the Brooklynites who worked to abolish slavery, immigrants from all over the world, and the women who kept america going by working in the brooklyn Navy Yard during WWII. With primary sources from the Brooklyn Historical Society collection, such as photographs, artwork, documents and oral histories students will engage with key moments in our nation's history and learn how they played out on Brooklyn's streets.

We will be leaving school at 9:30 am and be back by 12:30pm.

We will travel by school bus.

Math - New Unit 5

Today we had a test on Unit 4. I am really proud to say that we all did amazing on the math test. We're really getting the hang of 3rd grade maths! Now we need to concentrate on the Open Response questions which require a more thoughtful approach. Students need to use methods such as 'trial and error' to work out these problems...

Overview of Unit 5:

It is nearly impossible to "do" mathematics without having a basic understanding of our notational system for numbers. It is a remarkable system: With just ten symbols- the digits 0 through 9- it is possible to express any value, no matter how large or small. Children who develop a good understanding of our numeration system will not only define their sense of the size of the numbers represented by numerals, but will also develop their estimation and computation skills. Unit 5 has 3 main areas of focus:

• To extend previous lessons on the base-ten place-value system to whole numbers through millions and to decimals through thousandths,


• To apply these concepts to reading, writing, comparing, and ordering whole numbers and decimals, and


• To use whole numbers and decimals in real-life contexts.

Middah of the Week - Hakoros Hatov: Gratitude

This week we are learning about showing gratitude and appreciation for those who do things for us.

We can: Say thank you, write a thank-you card or give a gift to someone who we want to show gratitude to. When we eat a food we make a bracha to thank Hashem.

All Ready for the Recital...

Performing at The Senior Center