Graduation - clothes

For the Graduation the children will be wearing their school uniform. They can choose their best pants/skirt and please make sure the girls wear knee high socks.

Thanks!

Parents

Dear Parents,

Our class is really looking forward to our graduation! We are all busy getting ready for the recital.

Before the recital begins all the parents will visit the classroom where student awards will be given.

We would like to ask every parent to come up to speak with their child and share reflections of their child's growth over the year. Each child will hear from their parent how they have grown up over the year and improved and matured in so many ways! They will feel proud in front of their class! We are sure this will be very meaningful for our students.

Please confirm with me that you have received this message and that you are happy to speak to our class!

Thanks so much!

Morah Rivki

Invitations

Dear parents,

 

The children will be preparing their very own invitations to our class's Commencement Recital.  Each child will prepare two copies which can be sent to two special guests (you!, a grandparent, aunt/uncle, neighbor or family friend).  Please select with your child who they would like the invitations to be mailed to.  Fill out the form below and email it to us by tomorrow.

Thank you so much!

 

ADDRESS #1

Name: _________________________

Street Address: ___________________

City: ____________  State: ________ Zip: _______

Relation to child: _________________

 

ADDRESS #2

Name: _________________________

Street Address: ___________________

City: ____________  State: ________ Zip: _______

Relation to child: _________________

 

End of Year Trip - New York Hall of Science

On thursday - 10th of June we will be taking an exciting trip to the New York Hall of Science.
We will be travelling on the NY city school buses, leaving school at 9:30 and back at 1:30.

In addition to the Hands- on exhibits in the museum our school has also got a slot in the new "Science Outdoor Playground"!

Please make sure every student brings a bottle of water to school on this day.

Thanks!

"Reading Like Writers"

For the last phase of our Writing Workshop we will be learning to read in a new way - to read like writers!

How do writers warm up? They read other authors work! They notice the language, style and structure and they become inspired to create their own pieces.

We will be using books to warm up and their authors will "teach our class" writing.

Today we read "Hello, Harvest Moon" by Ralph Fletcher. We noticed "Memorable" writing that Ralph used. Words that sound wonderful and make us say "Oooohhh". For example: "It comes up round, ripe and huge". Ralph could have just written "It comes up big and full".

Authors like Ralph fletcher dont start off with wonderful writing. Their writing sounds quite ordinary to start with. But they work on it to make it extaordinary!

All the students in our class are Writers. Today we all wrote ordinary sentences and changed them to make them into memorable language.

Here are some memorable sentences that our class wrote:
Joshua - "my brother likes to read" - "My brother belongs in the happy books section in the library"
Daniel K - " The cars bumped into each other" - " The cars crashed like they were two friends hugging each other"
Noach - "It was all broken" - "The car parts were flying everywhere"
Daniel G - "My brother is happy" - "My brother is flying happiness"

(more to come...)

If you read at home together please look out for those wonderful, special, memorable sentences and lets start "reading like a writer"!

Healthy Salad Day

Tomorrow – Tuesday 25th may, we will be having a “Healthy Salad Day”. We will prepare a salad in recess, discuss healthy eating habits and eat our salad for lunch.




Each student offered to bring in:



Daniel K – Cucumber, salt and pepper

Daniel G – Lettuce

Noach – Avocado, lemon juice

Joshua – tomato

Esther- Carrot

Adam – Spinach



If you don’t have this vegetable in the house then your child can choose to bring another vegetable in instead.



Thanks!



Morah Rivki

Health and Fitness Month

DURING THIS MONTH, WE WILL TAKE THE TIME TO REVIEW BASIC HEALTHY HABITS WITH THE CHILDREN, such as:

·       Eating healthy foods (especially veggies, fruits, whole grains)

·       Exercising

·       Going to bed early

·       Hand washing before eating

These will all be discussed in context of the Mitzvah of "Vnishmartem Meod es Nafshoseychem" - after all, Hashem has given us a gift - our bodies - and we need it in order to do Mitzvos with energy - so lets take good care it!!

THESE ARE SOME OF THE HEALTH AND FITNESS ACTIVITIES THAT WE WILL BE DOING THIS MONTH:

1. 17th May - Power Walk on Brooklyn Bridge
2. 25th May- Salad day ( I will let each child know which vegetable to bring and we will chop a salad together for lunch)
3. 28th May - Jog on the Boardwalk
4. 1st June - Visit Hatzalah for a presentation on health and safety over the summer

We would like to bring in a parent or relative of someone from our class to speak to the children about keeping healthy, safe or fit.

Please let me know if anyone has a job in any of these fields and would be interested in coming in to speak to our class about it.

Thanks!