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Jewish Community Day School of RI Annual Meeting

May 22, 2015May 19, 2015 by Naomi Stein

Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island Annual Meeting

Wednesday, June 3, 2015 / 16 Sivan 5775 / 7:00 pm

Temple Emanu-El’s Bohnen Vestry

99 Taft Avenue / Providence, RI

Installation of the 2015-2016 JCDSRI Board of Trustees’ Officers and Board Members

Program includes:

Presentation of the Charles Samdperil Award

Kol Ha’Kavod to our JCDSRI employees, including:

Vicky Dziok’s 25th anniversary with JCDSRI

Heartfelt thanks and appreciation to Karolyn White as she retires after 22 years of service.

Kol Ha’Kavod to our JCDSRI volunteers.

Kol Ha’Kavod to our graduates and their families. / Welcome to this year’s new families!

Kol Ha’Kavod to our Board members who will be finishing their terms this spring:

Gloria Feibish, Daniel Gamm, Marisa Garber, Hope Hirsch, Jay Rosenstein and David Rosler

JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL OF RI

PROPOSED SLATE OF OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS FOR 2015-2016

OFFICERS

PRESIDENT………………………………………………Deborah Skolnick Einhorn

VICE-PRESIDENT………………………………………Rochelle Rosen

TREASURER…………………………………………….Rachel Friedberg

SECRETARY…………………………………………… .Lizzie Pollock

PAST PRESIDENT…..…………………………………..Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz

DIRECTORS

One-Year Term to 2016

Barry Dolinger

Ian Gonsher

Roii Raz

Two-Year Term to 2017

Sheila Alexander

Stephen Gamm

Three-Year Term to 2018

Aaron Horowitz

Robert Landau

Rashmi Licht

Mara Ostro

Sally Rotenberg

Completing Terms in 2015:

Gloria Feibish Dan Gamm Marisa Garber Hope Hirsch

Jay Rosenstein David Rosler

Parent-Appointed Representative-to 2016:

Sharon Sock

Alaskan Tales of Sea Ice and Totem Poles

May 17, 2015 by Naomi Stein

Do you know that the raven, a massive bird, is extremely smart with complex problem solving skills? We have been learning about ravens and other animals especially valued by Northwest Native Americans. While looking at totem poles, we noted that the ravens were frequently on them. To the Northwest Native Americans, the raven symbolizes intelligence, heroism and the “bringer of light” (creation). Totem poles usually tell a story, perhaps about a family, an event , etc. Students assembled traditional totem poles and then created their own totem poles that reflect their lives.

In addition, we read an exciting book about Inuit Indians, A Promise is a Promise by Munsch that tells a tale about the Qallupilluit, mythological creatures who live under the sea ice. The students loved this story and were amazed at how a serious problem was so cleverly solved! They enjoyed drawing Qallupilluit.

Eliora’s Post about Products and Poetry

May 15, 2015 by Naomi Stein

This week has been extremely fun filled, and just blew by like a gust of wind on a summer day. Last Friday our class learned that we would be starting an incredibly fun project in social studies, but only this Monday did we start. Our assignment is to create a factory produced item and explain the details in paragraphs. We are split into two groups, and each group is making something different. My group focused on how we could take something that exists and make it more environmentally friendly. We have to explain our power sources, factory location, labor contract, and so on. For my group’s final part of the project, we plan to actually make a prototype of our product.

Another incredibly interesting thing that we did this week was write. Write poetry. We went into the garden one day and wrote haiku about the nature around us. We took things in everyday life and turned them into poems that only come along once in a lifetime. ”Buzz, buzz,” a bee! “Crunch, crunch,” crunching leaves! At the end of the day when I heard the intercom, dry leaves crackling underfoot, I groaned. I was sad that school was over.

cool, whispering, wind

wandering and wondering

across the fast grass

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silent, still, beauty

crystals, diamonds, rubies

more precious than all

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reaching for the sun

swirling and growing with love

they’re luscious and green

My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socks – take 2

May 12, 2015May 11, 2015 by Naomi Stein

Students in art and Lashon were inspired by Chanoch Piven’s work in the creation of their character portraits created during Special Visitors Day in a Hebrew-Art project. Each student chose a person from real life or fantasy and described that person’s character: “my mom is funny, my friend is fast, my dog is smart, my sister is sweet, my dad is cool, my teacher is thoughtful, Batman is dark…” Students brought in objects from home as well as using items that the teacher’s collected that represented these characteristics to create a portrait. Each portrait includes the students’ writings in Hebrew and in English incorporated into the piece somehow.

Mrs. Bend & Rotem

Culinary Arts in the Library

May 7, 2015 by Naomi Stein

Once we started reading about Gladys Gatsby, a sixth grade gourmet cook in the delicious book, All Four Stars by Tara Dairman, the library became the JCDSRI Culinary Arts Department. We began by choosing chef names. After reviewing some material, the chefs brainstormed and decided what type of food shop or restaurant they would create. Choosing names for our establishments was fun! Talk about creativity and excitement! We are also learning about marketing.

Gladys enjoys writing very witty food reviews and to help us become food critics we are having food samplings and rating the different samples. We have had jelly, bread and olive samplings. I am so impressed with their professional attitudes during these activities. Like our aprons?

Second Grade Update

May 6, 2015 by Naomi Stein

It’s been a while since you have heard from second grade. Our blog was down. Apologies. That doesn’t mean great things haven’t been happening!

Here are some quick picture highlights from STEAM week:

Building with Keva blocks…

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Experimenting with SNAP Circuits…

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Building a 3-D map of Israel…

Last week we celebrated Earth day by planting lettuce and kale in the garden. We weeded, watered, and loved our new plants. We have also been thinking about ways we can take care of this amazing earth we live on. We’ll be going for a community clean-up walk some time this week. We hope to pick up as much trash as possible to show how much we care for the earth.

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We launched our final writing project. It’s a biggie! We are doing a big animal research project. Students are learning how to read a piece of information, synthesize what they learned, take notes, and eventually put those notes into paragraph form. We look forward to sharing this accomplishment with you at the author’s tea.

In math, we are learning about money. Specifically, we are learning to count, exchange, sort, and make change with money. Next time you go into a store to buy something, have your child count the change!

We look forward to seeing you all at Zimriya and Special Visitor’s Day!

Magnets, Spring, and More!

May 4, 2015 by Naomi Stein

Steam Week may be over; however, in Kindergarten, we’re just getting started!

We began Steam Week by learning about magnets. We explored the force by holding two magnets close and felt them either attract (pull toward one another) or repel (push away). We learned that magnets can attract other magnets (or other magnetic materials) at a distance invisibly, through what we call a magnetic field.

We used magnetic wands to find magnetic objects on our walk through the neighborhood:

The children created various magnetic objects during the week including, headbands, jewelry, decorations, and more!

We are in the process of creating a Kibbutz in our dramatic play area and are currently building a magnetic barn! We will be sure to add pictures of the structure upon completion.

In math, we have been measuring and finding the difference between the length of various objects. The children created paper clip snakes as a measurement tool!

Our springtime mural is coming along beautifully! Every day, the children are continuing to add more objects and labels!

Our Slater Mill Field Trip

May 1, 2015 by Naomi Stein

Our visit to Slater Mill helped students think deeply about the birth of industrialization in this country. The fifth graders asked incredibly thoughtful questions about life during this time period.

Studying a piece of wool and thinking about the efforts it takes to go from sheering a sheep to making usable thread to make clothes. — Studying a piece of wool and thinking about the efforts it takes to go from sheering a sheep to making usable thread to make clothes

Carding wool made it easier to work with.

Only a wealthy family could have had a loom like this one in their home.

Beds were warmed up with coals under the sheets.

Taking the flax plant and readying it to made thread to make linen is quite a process.

Students were fascinated by all the machinery.

These machines were designed to fix machinery.

The cotton gin revolutionized the cotton industry.

All Kinds of Families-Books K.White, Librarian

May 1, 2015 by Naomi Stein

Our school will welcome many family members and friends next Friday, May 8, our annual Special Visitors Day. It is such an awesome happy day! While reviewing books about families, I discovered some great stories that reflect the diversity of families. Families come in all shapes and sizes and are more diverse than ever before. Today’s picture books provide insight into interracial families, families with non-biological children, same-sex parents and intergenerational relationships.

Enjoy this thoughtful book list: http://bit.ly/1GAZASK

Some of our favorites: (NOTE We love Todd Parr’s books http://www.toddparr.com/index.html )

Field Trip to RRIE

April 24, 2015 by Naomi Stein

By Eliora, the 5th grader:

On Wednesday our class went to the recycling center. We went there not knowing anything that we wanted to buy, and left with everybody carrying at least one heavy bag (including Mrs. Woods and Peter.) We got so many materials that we will reuse in our sculpture. Our class got started on an abstract sculpture right away, and I was the official bottle cap holer (I put holes in the bottle caps.) We have wind chimes, bird feeders, and pots for plants on what looks like a plastic cupcake holder. In conclusion, we all had an amazing time collaborating this week.

Curious to know more about where we went? Click here: http://www.rrie.org/

We looked for materials that wouldn't get ruined outdoors — We looked for materials that wouldn’t get ruined outdoors

It's exciting to imagine what we'll create — It’s exciting to imagine what we’ll create