WOW!! I think that is the best word to sum up what has been going on in the fifth grade over the last few weeks.
We had some amazing Navi projects that included two Prezi presentations some clay diagrams as well as “Movie Scroll” project. The students did an amazing job.
We continued with Parshat Bo and learned about the phases of the moon and saw some science videos to help understand what the cycle of the moon is and that when we see a full moon it is actually the 15th of the Hebrew month and that the moon on Rosh Chodesh is actually a dot.
Our learning of Chumash also tied in nicely to our Dinim unit on Pesach. We have been learning about the Korban Pesach and other laws about Pesach in Chumash as well as in dinim.
We also watched two videos about how matzah is made one showed us how hand Shmurah Matzah is made and the other focused on machine matzah. We discussed the differences in the two kinds of matzah.
The students prepared some amazing questions for Rabbis Joel and Shay Finkelstein when they came to speak to us about Pesach and how the sale of chametz is actually done.
Finally many of the students submitted Divrei Torah for the Haggadah we are putting together so that everyone will have some divrei torah to share at the Seder
As I said WOW!!
We have been busy learning and getting ready for Pesach
I would like to wish you all a Chag Kasher V’Sameach
Rabbi Greenblatt
