Collaboration Fifth Grade Style

One of the skills that we are focusing on this year is collaboration. When we finished Parshat Shmot the the students did a Jigsaw activity. What is a jigsaw Activity? Well let me tell you.
The Students were broken into groups you had your A,B,C, groups in every A, B C, group you had a student who was assigned a number 1,2, or 3. Then they broke up into their number groups. Each number groups was assigned two perakim in Parshat Shemot to review and come up with Key words and key facts. When they finished the students returned to their letter groups and taught the other members of their group about the Perakim which they prepared.

Today we worked in groups and created a picture Wed about the month of Kislev.

 

Yonah Story Books

Re-posted from L.S. Judaic Studies Blog

YONAH STORY BOOKS

Today the fifth graders together with their Kindergarten buddies created their own version of the story of Yonah using Story Jumper.

Click on the link below for the links to the stories

Gmar Tov

Akevy

https://sites.google.com/a/mhafyos.org/rabbi-greenblatt-s-class/student-page

Yom Kippur Slogans

For a class project students were asked to come up with slogans about Yom Kippur. Here are some of the slogans our class came up with

Gmar Chatima Tova
Rabbi Greenblatt



Dinim

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Yom kippur slogans

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Your skating on thin ice

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Yom kippur (2)

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Wallwisher

Today we used Wallwisher to express some of our thoughts about Rosh Hashanah.
Now that we got the hang of it I will ask the students over the next few days to add more meaningful ideas
You can add your own thoughts as well

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/5thgraderoshhashanah

Wordle

A Student in class project using Wordle:

Below is a link to a Wordle.
Please click on the on the link and you will see the Wordle.
I would then like you to comment on the blog one of the following

1. Who are the main characters

2. What are the key words or phrases



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TIC TAC TOE

This week we finished the first perek in Parshat Shemot. As an assessment of the Perek we are doing a Tic Tac Toe assignment. Basically each student has to pick 3 activities out of nine hence the name Tic Tac Toe.

A more detailed description is posted on the website and was emailed to you through RenWeb.

Today the students had some time to work on this assignment in class. Here are some pictures.

Google Docs and Mishna

Today in Mishna we used Google Docs for the first time. I also showed the students how to use the comment stream and at the end of the activity I asked them to write a comment about the activity.

Below are the actual comments taken from the comment stream:
“I don’t want to log off”
“Awesome”
“this was fun”
“This was very fun!”
“This was awesome, thanks rabbi Greenblatt”
“Great job guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Our goal is to have engaged student and motivated students. I think we accomplished that goal with today’s activity.
To quote one of the students, “Great Job Guys!!”