Brooklyn Historical Society UPCOMING TRIP

Please be reminded that on Tuesday, December 21st we will be going on a trip to Brooklyn Historical Society. We will leave school at 9:30 and be back by 12:15.

 

We will  be having a one hour guided tour titled "It happened in Brooklyn".

 

Students will meet a diverse range of residents from Brooklyn’s earliest Native American settlements, to the men and women who fought in the Revolutionary War on Brooklyn’s shores; from the Brooklynites who worked to abolish slavery to immigrants from all over the world; we will also learn about 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.

 

THANK YOU!

A great BIG THANK YOU to the parents of Noah Niyazov and Daniel Ganopolsky for responding to our need for a classroom projector! We received the projector (and cart, no less!) which will enable us to partake in interactive and interesting lessons that we can all enjoy. Thank you so much!

Math Update!

We've begun a new unit in Math! We are discussing the multiplication of extended facts, i.e. extending our knowledge of multiplication facts of single digits to multiplying factors of ten.

For example, we know (original fact) that 4x5=20, so now we can think of (extended fact) 40x5=200  in a similar way by thinking of 40 as: 4 tens, 4 dimes, 4 base-ten "longs" (blocks consisting of ten small cubes), etc. A shortcut would be to multiply the extended fact as 4x5=20 and then add a zero to the answer.

We have also discussed more extended multiplication facts where BOTH factors are multiples of ten, for example 40x50=2000.

The same shortcut can apply: multiply 4x5=20 then add "00" to the answer. So if we understand that 4x5=20, we can understand that 40x5=200, and 40x50=2000. It is helpful to use the term "ten times as much" or "ten times as many" when doing work with multiples of ten.

CHANUKAH RECITAL TOMORROW!

Dear Parents,
Please be reminded that our Chanukah recital will be tomorrow, Thursday, December 9th at 10:00 untill about 12:30. Please have your child wear: a white shirt, black or blue pants or skirt, and solid colored socks/tights. Hope to see you there!!
Happy Chanukah!

Our Very Own Acrostic Chanukah Poems!

We made our very own, creative Chanukah acrostic poems, with artwork to match in honor of the holiday! Each student wrote a unique poem - read and enjoy! (P.S. We learned that Acrostics are when you take the first letter of a word like "Dreidel" and write a word or sentence beginning with each letter).

Happy Chanukah! Here's a great kids' Chanukah link...

  Happy Chanukah! If you'd like some great kids' Chanukah games, crafts, recipes, video, etc. visit this website, and make sure to check out the KIDS' ZONE, too.

http://www.chabad.org/holidays/chanukah/default_cdo/jewish/Hanukkah.htm

Enjoy!

Upcoming Mini-Trip: Performance at Adult Senior Center

Following the success of our last trip to the Adult Senior Center, we have been invited again...This time to perform Chanukah songs!

The performance will be on Tuesday, December 7th at 11:30 a.m.  If your child has any elderly relatives that could come and join the audience,  please let them know about this great event.

 

 

 

We look forward to sharing the joy of Chanukah...

 

Happy Chanukah!