This week in class, we began our 4th unit: “Nazi Germany and the Holocaust”. In this series of lessons, students will dive deeply into a historical case study about the Holocaust, practicing historical thinking skills while finding links to the universal themes of human behavior they examined in the last 3 units.
The last few weeks, students have been learning about World War I in preparation for learning about World War II and the Holocaust when we return from break.
The last few weeks, students have been presenting their family interview presentations in class. It has been wonderful learning from and about each other! We’ve also enjoyed having many parents join us.
This week students learned about Jewish Life Before WWI focusing on Jewish Nationalism and Zionism.
This week, students were assigned the “6th Grade Yachad Family Interview Project.”
This week, students started wrapping up our 1st Unit: Eastern Europe Jewry and the Great Migration.
We kicked off this week with a team building game called “hot chocolate river.” Students needed to figure out how they could get across the room all together without touching the floor- only using their paper plates or “marshmallows”.
Welcome to 6th grade Yachad! This week we kicked off our learning by getting to know each other through a series of games and team building activities.
Last week, Dori Katz spoke to 6th grade students about her experience during and after the Holocaust.
This week, 6th graders learned about Kristallnacht and its significance.
Happy Purim! To celebrate, 6th graders got to choose their own activities.
This week in Jewish studies, students learned about the transformation of Germany into a dictatorship in 1933–1934. Students drew conclusions, based on this history, about the values and institutions that might serve as a guard against dictatorship and make democracy possible.
We so enjoyed spending time with many of you at the B’nei Mitzvah Retreat back in December. We now invite you to our next B’nei Mitzvah Family Program on Saturday, March 30!
On Thursday, April 11th we are honored to have Dori Katz coming to speak to our 6th graders.
Since returning from break, we’ve been reviewing and wrapping-up our lesson on anti-Semitism.
