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On Tuesday, in honor of Veterans Day, TDSA welcomed Lt Col. Michael Bram, a retired Air Force Chaplain and the husband of our Middle School Social Studies Teacher to our school. Lt Col. Bram spoke to the eighth graders and kindergarten students about his experiences as a Chaplain in the Air Force. He brought in pictures and the students were able to hear about the many things he did to help other Jews in the armed forces. It was a valuable learning experience for all involved!

This year TDSA has been focusing on the Core Value of Hakaras Hatov (Gratitude). What day better than Veteran's Day to show our gratitude to our courageous veterans and all they do for our country! The kindergarteners participated in a step by step drawing lesson on how to draw a soldier. Then, they wrote a thank you message for a Veterans. These drawing were handed out to Veterans at the VA Hospital. Thank you to Captain Danny Minkow, an Airforce Veteran, for distributing them

In STEAM class, the third grade boys put on their architect hats. With computer paper and books, the boys tried to construct bridges that would be strong enough to hold pennies. By using circular shoring to more evenly distribute the weight they were able to increase the amount of pennies their bridges could hold. This activity was fun and engaging and served as a solid introduction to the mechanics of force and weight distribution.

Over the last few weeks, Ms. Bradberry's second grade girls have become experts on the elements that make a sentence complete. Last Friday, the demonstrated their mastery of sentence structure by becoming Sentence Surgeons! They dressed up as doctors and performed surgery on sentence fragments to create full sentences! The girls can't wait to put their new mastery to work expressing their thoughts and ideas in writing!

In honor of Atlanta hosting the Shabbos Project this past Shabbos, TDSA hosted a guest of their own. Jewish singer Eitan Katz came to TDSA for an Erev Shabbos Kumzitz with our middle school and fourth grade students. The atmosphere was incredible and the students went into Shabbos uplifted.

We are so proud of our Third grade boys! Together with their Rebbi, Rabbi Cohen, they have completed the entire Shmoneh Esrai and are ready to start saying it silently to themselves. This Monday they davened silently in front of our Kosel window and imagined themselves davening at the Kosel in Eretz Yisroel. What a powerful Tefillah that must have been!

The anniversary of Rachel Imeinu's passing took place this week. The girls in Mrs. Horowitz's seventh grade class celebrated her legacy of modesty and kindness by creating beautiful wall hangings. Using coffee they stained card stock and then traced out the shape of her burial place, Kever Rachel. The students then transcribed the words of "Kol Berama" over the shape of Kever Rachel to create something beautiful, meaningful and unique.

Making things move requires force. The third grade boys learned all about different forces in Mrs. Pelishev's STEAM class. They constructed hopper poppers using carboard and rubber bands and used the concepts of balanced and unbalanced forces to make the hoppers jump. The boys experimented with how tight the rubber band needs to be to make their hoppers jump higher.

Morah Cohen's second grade students are constantly growing their knowledge! In order to better understand the words they come across in Chumash, the girls have been making fun and colorful shorashim (root word) cards. By decorating their own cards they can better remember the meanings of the words and flex their creativity in the process!