FRUITY SURPRISE
Elementary students witnessed an exciting outdoor experiment where an apple and a watermelon were dropped simultaneously by Ms. Bigham from the roof of the school. Students eagerly watched to see what fruit hit the ground first but apparently it was a tie.
UNIVERSITY BOUND
Ashley Johnson, Admission Counselor at University of Maryland introduced our juniors and seniors to the school. She discussed admission requirements, the curriculum, Jewish life, how to defer entrance for a year and activities which our students could join. Ashley stressed the importance of applying by November because most of the first year spaces would be filled from the first group of applicants.
HAPPY TIMES
Birthday buddies Liel Karo (l) and Ben Ackerman (r) share a special day in common and to mark turning 3, they treated their EC 2 classmates to some delicious snacks and celebrations.
SUKKOT SMILES
Morah Rosa's 3rd grade Hebrew students eagerly display their festive contributions to the Sukkah decorations.
NEVER ENOUGH CHUMASH (l-r) Rabbi Asher Bloch, Eliana Roisman and Jacklyn Kleiman working on 8th Grade Chumash in the school library that currently focuses on civil and accidental damages and their respective payments.
SETTING THE STAGE
Renana Spiegelman helps 5th grade students Alina Goldfine (l) and Gali Hampel (r) create and decorate the set for the 5th Grade Sukkot play taking place on Friday.
SWEET SOUND OF MUSIC We are excited to share that this year; we have a high school girls choir proctored by Morah Elisheva Levitt. 10th graders (l-r) Maya Wadler, Gabriella Abramson and Senior Sharon Ben-Hamo are already working on some tunes and concepts for the group to tackle.
IT ALL ADDS UP
Morah Elisheva's 2nd graders are memorizing all the number facts that add up to 10. As a cross curricular activity they made paper chains (with Sukkot in mind) with 2 different colors to show all the possible numbers that add up to 10. Their classroom is now very festive looking in honor of Sukkot!
TEAM BUILDING
9th Graders (l-r) Jeffrey Collins, Akiva Garner, Noah Meimoun and Simcha Korn (11th grade) participated in some manual labor along with their peers to eagerly build our school sukkah.
 DECADENT DECOR 3rd grader Shira Babajanov holds her clay mobile she made for Sukkot. Her classmates have been working hard on this project since the first week of school. Each student made 5-6 clay shapes of symbols for Sukkot, painted them after they were fired in the kiln, and then attached them to sticks to create a special mobile for their home or sukkah.
SNACKING IN THE SUKKAH This week students continue to enjoy meal times in the Sukkah with Upper School treated to a breakfast on Wednesday while the slightly cooler temperatures delight the other students while they lunch in the Sukkah.
SUSHI NIGHT High schoolers enjoyed a Simchat Beit Hashovea at Rabbi and Elisheva Levitt's sukkah on Wednesday night. Make your own sushi in the sukkah was great fun as was trying to find similarities and symbolism between sushi and sukkah! Enjoying their creations is Leora Geralnik(l) and Mikayla Shkedy(r).
WHO'S WHO IN THE ZOO In honor of Sukkot our Middle and High School students each enjoyed this lovely weather with a fun-filled visit to the Houston Zoo. Pictured below is our Middle School.
SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE EC 3 students gather together to make a bracha on the lulav and etrog and are getting ready to shake the lulav all around to show that Hashem is everywhere!  | 
