This week in STEAM we discovered Fall! We explored many nature items, had fun making leaf rubbings/ paintings, and made our own wind vanes!

This week our upper school Red Ribbon week was sponsored by the Sources of Strength team. We celebrated being drug free this week with fun dress up days and texts with daily facts to our students. We ended the week with resources for our youth to call in crisis or in a time of need.

Students in lower school learned about our country's upcoming election and held their own election. Students in 4th and 5th grade were eligible to run for a variety of positions on student council. Students submitted an application to the lower school principal. Candidates had to demonstrate good citizenship, hard work, and have good school attendance. They each also had to have an interview and prepare a speech to share at lunch in front of their peers. Students prepared posters to hang around school. Today (Thursday) is voting day. The polls opened at 8:30 a.m. and will close at 2:00 p.m. Students were encouraged to dress in red, white, and blue in honor of the voting day and represent the Red Ribbon Week day theme "United We Stand." Election results will be announced in next week's Buzz.

Students in Mr. Duke's Photography Explo were challenged to photograph everyday objects and scenes in a recognizable way. They then were required to photograph the same subject matter, transforming the image through abstraction.

Students in Mrs. Schneider's first grade class enjoyed a hands-on experience using manipulatives to understand place value. The students had so much fun "writing" on their desks!

Students in Morah Miriam's first grade Judaics class have been hard at work practicing their Hebrew handwriting skills in alef bet block letters.

While learning about genetics and how traits are passed down from parent to offspring, 6th graders in Ms. Goldstein’s life science class used probability to create the genes for two monsters, then solved punnet squares for each characteristic to figure out what the monster baby would look like. They then analyzed the punnet squares and got to draw the baby monster.

Students in Morah Aviva's ECE4 class created sparkling sand-and-star decorations after learning about Hashem’s promise to Avraham in this week’s Parashat Lech Lecha.