Thank You! 

Thank you very much to Stephanie and Shachar Minkove for hosting the 2nd grade Meet and Greet this past Saturday night.
Parents enjoyed wonderful food and company and had a nice time catching up with friends and meeting new 2nd grade parents.

Todah rabbah to our hardworking volunteers for babysitting during the faculty meeting this past Tuesday afternoon:

BECKY SCHWARTZ, YOEL BELITZ, NURIT HABERMAN, KIRA COHEN , ELISHEVA MAY, RACHEL ORDAN, DANIELLE HARRIS, REBECCA HARRIS, RACHEL GOULDNER, AND BRACHA ROSENBERG

Stuart Davis (1894-1964), our students learned in Morah Chani's art class, grew up in an artistic environment; his father was art director of a Philadelphia newspaper and his mother was a sculptor. Davis is considered to be an outstanding American artist who worked in a Cubist style.You can recognize Stuart Davis' art work by the pure abstract patterns he used. He often included lettering and suggestions of advertisements and posters in his artwork as well. The passion and enthusiasm of Stuart Davis' works also reflect his interest in jazz. 

Davis experimented with the collage technique invented by Braque and Picasso. He pasted paper on the surface of his canvases and painted imitations of wallpapers, labels, etc. In these collages he first introduced words and letters, elements that were an important part of his work.

                          *Navi Play*

           

Kol Hakavod, Kitah Dalet. Enjoy learning Sefer Yehoshua!

Thank you very much to the Sopher-Harelick family for donating all of the Neviim for our fourth graders.

      *Rainforest In The Bronx?*


In conjunction with third grades' Rainforest Unit, they took a trip to the Bronx Zoo to explore "Tropic Zone: The Rainforest. From vviewing platforms set at various levels, our students looked up and looked down to discover animal life in all layers of the zoo's walk-through rainforest habitat. Tortoises crept underfoot, a two-toed sloth hung from a vine, and hornbills called in the canopy.  

Their tour guide, Ron, lived in the rain forest for five years. He told the third graders that for thirty-six straight days it was pouring rain non-stop. He taught them that most snakes are gentle and Madagascar Hissing Cockraoches are actually very clean. "Ayalet Aranoff said, "I enjoyed learning about the rain forest and how the different layers have cool creatures in them.

Soon, third graders will be designing a rainforest of their own using recycled materials.

                  

This week during Picture Day the first grade area was very empty at one point. Only one class was in the grade area. A first grader turned to his Morah and said, "I can't concentrate. There's no noise."

                                              *Taamay HaMikra*

To enhance the Chumash curriculum and reading skills, the students will be learning Taamay HaMikra (Torah Cantillation/trop) once a week taught by Rabbi Krauss and Morah Dina Najman. Knowing how to chant the words of the text greatly enhances the students' ability to read the psukim with accuracy and comprehension. Setting the words to the trop helps students retain the words as well as their meaning, as children pick up songs quickly and remember them longer than prose.

We are excited to expose the students to this beautiful part of our mesorah in the context of the psukim they learn in class this year.
 

~water . . . Alex Levy

~cold . . . Aurelie Fand

Our hockey team won 4-2 this past Sunday against JEC. Buddy Wise, Jesse Schanzer, and Ben Elias scored. Alex Kalb played great in goal.

From Thursday through Sunday, the David Cooper Memorial Girls Basketball Tournament hosted girls high school basketball teams from Boston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chicago, and our own High School Sting team. The athletes stayed in Riverdale starting on Wednesday night and played games on Thursday, Friday, Saturday night, and Sunday. Sting did an incredible job throughout the tournament. They played in the final game against Chicago and were tied at 27 in the last three seconds of the game when Chicago scored to take first place. What an exciting way to end it! Kol Hakavod to all participants.

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Susie Fishbein Cookbook
The PTC is also selling the newest Susie Fishbein cookbook "Teens and 20- Somethings" for the special school-discounted price of $25.00. This cookbook can be purchased by sending in a check to Sally in the business office made out to SAR-PTC.  You can also purchase by using Paypal- and emailing [email protected]. Supply is limited.