Week 5 10/10-10/13
Advisory:In advisory we continued to research a famous person we admire and then we started to write a letter to that person. We also discussed what is happening in Israel.
Math: We reviewed prime numbers, division, area,…
We’re focusing on getting the word out there about our school! But we are also working on getting ourselves and our students connected with the local community. While we do like to think of ourselves as outside the box thinkers,…
Greetings, Parents!
We had a frightfully good halloween! We enjoyed seeing all of you, and marching through our spooky tunnel! Afterwards, we explored the properties of dry ice with Shira, and even got to taste a sample! (It tasted like…
Last Thursday was the perfect day for a field trip! After a cold spell during the early days of fall, we enjoyed the most beautiful weather, witnessed the leaves changing colors, and utilized the Hudson Valley as our classroom for…
This week we took a field trip to Walkway over the Hudson. We observed the river and it’s surroundings and hypothesized on what/who migrates. We decided that fish, like Sea Bass, and Blue Crabs definitely do! Among the birds…
These past weeks we have been quite busy with science apple activities, class trips, math and letter/phonics activities. We have lots of photos from this past week. Enjoy!Science: We talked about what we know about apples, how they taste, what…
ASA: In the all school assembly, we split up into two different groups and played games to learn about each other. One of the games was ‘this or that’. It is a game where you pick a side like vanilla…
The 1-2 class LOVES when reading rolls around in our daily schedule! Not only do our readers love listening to read aloud stories, they also love having their own independent reading time, cozying up with lots of books in their…
We had an amazing day this past Friday meeting up with the CIA students at the Home of FDR and harvesting vegetables together, coming back to CDS and cooking together! The students prepared several herbs to cook with, made…
This week in social studies the 3/4s we discussed the meaning of the words ingenuity and inventiveness as they relate to human evolution. We learned that chimpanzees, Neanderthals and homo sapiens all had/have this attribute in their use of tools. …
