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The Kindergarten students practiced the many sight-words they know in a creative wintery way! First the students wrote down their favorite sight word on a snowflake- then they crumpled the snowflakes and threw them high in the air. The sight-words "snowed down" on their heads and the kids had a wonderful time catching and practicing the words written inside!

This week in Science class, Mrs. Castle's seventh grade students have been working on posters demonstrating their in-depth knowledge of the skeletal system. The students worked on their labeling skills as they identified each bone, and it's function within the overall skeletal system. In addition to showing off their impressive knowledge, the students also demonstrated their creativity, with each poster presenting the skeleton in unique and sometimes hilarious ways. So far, Mr. Skeleton has flown in a hot air balloon, visited Dis-Knee World, acted in a movie and played a game of football and more!

As part of their mindfulness curriculum the girls in Morah Cohen's class learned all about hot cocoa breathing. This is a mindfulness technique that helps students control their breath when they're upset or need to re-center. First the girls inhale and "smell the hot cocoa" then they blow out slowly to “cool down their cocoa” so they can drink it. To reinforce this technique the girls made their own "Cups of Calm" to display in the classroom.

In STEAM the fourth grade boys are exploring what makes bridges stronger. They are learning about different bridge types and construction. Using two pieces of paper, they created a model bridge and tested their bridge's strength by seeing how many pennies their bridges could hold.

The mood was somber throughout the school as we remembered the fallen Israeli soldiers of the IDF and victims of terrorist attacks. Boys and girls in the Middle school participated in a Yom HaZikaron ceremony that explained the meaning of the day, recited prayers for the z'chus of the fallen and their families, a bracha for the current soldiers, and tehilim for all of Klal Yisroel. Mrs. Kalnitz shared stories about Capt. Dekel Swissa, a valiant young man from Bar Giora who served as a Captain in the Golani Brigade,13th Battalion, and was killed at the Paga outpost on October 7 while saving his platoon. Dekel was TDSA's Shinshin in 2018 and lived with the Kalnitz family during his stay in Atlanta.
The lower school visited a display in the lobby depicting a timeline of the wars since the State of Israel's inception. Tomorrow, the mood swings as we celebrate Yom HaAtzmaut as a TDSA community.

How do you know the agenda for the day? You read it, of course! I walked into this Kindergarten class as they were learning the day's plan through a reading activity. This boy was asked to find a blended sound of "ST" within the letter about their major activity. Can you find it? He did!

Escape rooms involve critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration; all excellent skills to build in an academic experience. 8th grade Humanities is learning about the Cold War. Throughout the hallway and the classroom, small groups of girls were intensely focused on escaping from the communist, East side of the Berlin Wall to the West side of Germany during this escape-room-style learning activity. In this picture, the group is using Google Translate to understand German documents to help them on their journey. It was amazing to see these girls engaged in such a creative and valuable way while learning!

8G invited me to view their Ivrit presentations today. Working in pairs, they thought of rooms that served a useful purpose. Then they wrote about these rooms in Hebrew and put it on a slide show or poster. Each group presented their project entirely in Hebrew! It was amazing to see their pride, creativity, and skill

These 5th grade boys didn't even notice me walk into the classroom - they were so intensely engaged in this group discussion. Mrs. Bendicoff split the class into sections, some worked independently while this group shared their thoughts in a literature circle format on the the historical fiction book: "If I lived at the Time of the Signing of the Constitution". They came up with some insightful ideas!

"Which two arctic animals will never meet?" This is the question a kindergarten girl asked me as I observed them making polar bears, arctic hares, walruses, snow foxes, and the like. Each table featured a slew of arts and crafts supplies for the excited girls to create their cold-climate animals they learned all about during science. The answer - which I was proud to get correct - is penguins and Polar Bears. Each is native to a different pole of the globe (North and South). Ask a Kindergartener which lives where!