Third grade students in Ms. Klausner's math class have been learning about fractions. They worked on understanding them, comparing fractions and equivalent fractions. The students enjoyed playing equivalent fractions dominoes! 

On Wednesday this week lower school students honored Holocaust survivor Dugo Leitner by participating in the global Operation Dugo project, making and eating falafel! On January 18, 1945, sixty thousand Auschwitz prisoners were taken to the death march. At 14 years old Dugo marched endless kilometers dreaming about round buns he will eat when he would get to Israel. Dugo survived and moved to Israel. While visiting the Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, he saw a falafel store, the falafel balls reminding him of the round buns which kept his spirit during the hard march. Ever since then, every January 18 Dugo eats falafel to celebrate life and as a symbol that he will never be hungry again.

This week students in Ms. Morrison's 2nd grade class prepared for their spelling test on Friday. To help the kids practice, they used letter tiles to spell each word. The students were so excited to spell each word and to see the patterns that are in the different words. They are becoming amazing readers and spellers!

This week the school's submissions for the private school division of the Rodeo Art School Contest have returned! The school was awarded ribbons based on first, second, and third place for our school. Additionally, finalist ribbons were award for some of our students.

Congratulations to 7th grader Liviya Schlachter on receiving a finalist ribbon for her Rodeo Art titled " I still think it was worth it". She was awarded tickets to the rodeo to see the school art hanging in the Hayloft Gallery.

This week students in Morah Sandy's ECE3A class learned about how Pharaoh had enslaved the Jews in Mitzrayim and refused Moshe’s request to set them free, in this week's parsha. They learned that Hashem sent down the first of the 10 makkot or plagues, blood. When a Jew would drink from a cup it would be water but if an Egyptian drank from the same cup it would turn to blood. The class demonstrated this by decorating cups with red paper and pouring water into the cups making it red.

Welcome back seniors! We missed you! The Class of 2023 returned this week from their trip to Israel, culminating the trip in Jerusalem, where among other activities they visited the shuk, the Begin Heritage Museum, and went on the Kotel Tunnel Tour. Thank you to the Ouzzan family for hosting the group for their final Shabbat in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood. A huge thank you to chaperones Aviva Friedmann and Rabbi Johnny Ouzzan for showcasing our homeland to our students and bringing their studying and learning to life.

What an amazing middle school tournament! After two months of learning all about the history of Israel, including the First Zionist Congress, the establishment of the State of Israel, the Six Day War, Israeli inventions, and the first towns which were established by pioneers. Congratulations to 1st place winner Toby Miller, 2nd place winner Liviya Schlachter and 3rd place winner Yonatan Alon. The winners received Israeli gummies, gift cards, and a drone (an Israeli invention!).

This week we celebrated the Hebrew Language Week! Bnot Sherut Talya and Moriya taught our lower school students al about Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, a Russian-Jewish linguist, renowned as the lexicographer of the first Hebrew dictionary, and editor of HaZvi, one of the first Hebrew newspapers published in Israel. He was the main driving force behind the revival of the Hebrew language.