January 17, 2007

Hi 4B Parents & Students~

 

Attached are instructions for the City of Ember game.  This outside of class assignment is due on January 25th.

 

Today Suzie Roberts began a study of Photography with both 4th grade classes.  Suzi's focus of study over the course of the next couple of weeks is to use photography to help students explore their own personal traits and characteristics.  Part of this unit will require us to visit the The Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco.  We will be announcing a date for this field trip soon.

http://www.jmsf.org/

 

I have been in contact with a 4th grade teacher from our sister school in Haifa, the Reali School.  We are just about ready to establish a connection between our 4th grade classes.  This connection and friendship between our students, we hope will last for many years.  We have decided to begin this process by sending the kids in Israel photographs of each of our 4th graders.  Accompanying these photographs will be a separately written physical description of each of the students as well as some basic interests and information.  The Israeli kids will send us the same.  Our first task will be to carefully read the descriptions of our the Israeli kids and decide which description matches up with each picture.  All of the descriptions will be in Hebrew.  We will continue to work together as the year progresses.

I'd be happy to hear any of your thoughts about this project.

 

Have a good evening.

 

-Steve

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Stephen Blatteis
sblatteis@wornickjds.org