Ready, Set ....

Ready, Set …

Teachers have already been hard at work setting up their classrooms.

The Early Childhood division is pleased to have a whole new all purpose room to add to their corner of the school. Charna and her teachers are busy converting the old computer room into a room for indoor play, parties, joint class activities, and events shared by children and parents. Our classrooms are now very well supplied with computers and ipads, so that a room dedicated as a computer lab is no longer necessary. Extra computers will be set up in the library. There are laptop carts for use in the elementary and junior high divisions. High school students are required to have their own laptops and there are extra ones that the administrators can assign to students who do not have laptops. There will be more ipads available for pre-school and elementary use this year, due to a generous grant from the Kohellet Foundation.

This new all purpose room will free up the lunchroom and gym for use by the older students. The new room will be stocked with riding toys and age appropriate toys that encourage healthy physical activity on the part of the students. There will also be room for tables and chairs, and even the possibility of converting part of the play area into a lunchroom facility for the pre-schoolers. The availability of a projector and wifi access will still permit larger group learning opportunities in this room, as well.

Rabbi Baruch and Mrs. Malka Harris are moving in today to 5569 Kings Point. If you see them, please introduce yourself. You will be so glad that you did. They are a lovely family!

A very big “Thank You” goes to Allison Sheppard, our 4th grade teacher and IT specialist who suggested that we could get some gently used furniture from Youth Village, where her mother, Paula Jordan, works. We did, and I think our teachers will be pleased with their “new” file cabinets, storage cabinets, and book cases.