Yavneh Learns in Every Corner

Yavneh Learns in Every Corner

Yavneh takes advantage of its entire building for educational purposes. First grade students add things up as they ascend the stairs from their classrooms.

Yavneh Academy Presents Fifth Grade Poetry Slam

Yavneh Academy Presents Fifth Grade Poetry Slam

Yavneh Academy’s Fifth Grade Poetry Slam was an opportunity for children to both portray learning and to support each other. The event is the culmination of the fifth grade poetry unit in which they learned about various poetry forms under the guidance of their teachers, Ms. Alyse Malc, Mrs. Karen Tannenholtz, Mr. Jason David, Mrs. Tobi Abrahamson and associate teacher, Mrs. Fran Friedman. The students wrote original poems and collated them into a booklet. In advance of the Poetry Slam, 12 finalists were selected: Chani Herman, Ezra Silfen, Nava Lacher, Atara Ahdoot, Josh Wanatick, Nadiv Langer, Eliyahu Najman, Jude Shankman, Paige Schwartz, Avraham Hollander, Yael Lemonik, Rebecca Mantell.

Wearing red poet’s berets, the finalists recited their poems to an audience of their classmates and the three judges: Mrs. Rebecca Gordon, Mrs. Barbara Rubin and Mrs. Minna Heilpern.

Yavneh Academy Introduces Goldberg Academy

Yavneh Academy Introduces Goldberg Academy

Education is always evolving and Yavneh Academy is proud to be part of the change. Through countless 21^st century tools, including the iPad, worldwide internet access and apps for every discipline, the way students are learning has vastly grown in the past decade. Providing students with engaging, enriching and intuitive multimedia delivers great benefits. This thinking led Yavneh Academy to create Goldberg Academy:The One Stop Shop for All Things Math.

The program has been built as an accessory to Yavneh Academy’s seventh grade current in-class curriculum. Through its over 25 lessons and 6 courses (rapidly growing), Goldberg Academy is able to provide an additional asset to classroom learning in multiple topics. The lessons range from 12-17 minutes and many consist of additional practice materials, successfully utilizing the possibilities of multimedia. Over 50 percent of Yavneh Academy’s middle school students benefit from the interactive videos and materials, further enhancing their knowledge of current classroom topics. The project, led by veteran math instructor Howard Goldberg, in collaboration with Noah Schultz, along with Zachary Mankowitz and Seth Hanauer, started as a vague idea and has led to a tool utilized by a majority of middle school math classes. One can learn more about Goldberg Academy by signing on to goldbergacademy.org/JLNJ.

Yavneh Choir Performs at Teaneck Yom HaShoah Commemoration

Yavneh Choir Performs at Teaneck Yom HaShoah Commemoration
The annual Teaneck Yom HaShoah commemoration took please on Wednesday evening, May 4. The Yavneh Academy choirs, under the direction of Yavneh music director Marsha Greenberg Motzen, performed the anthems and the Partisan Song, in English and in Yiddish, to a capacity crowd.

Yavneh Academy Fifth Graders Present State Fair

Yavneh Academy Fifth Graders Present State FairYavneh’s fifth grade students regaled their parents and teachers during their State Fair programs. The children were a joy to watch as they danced their way, with gusto, through a flash mob; sang, including a moving rendition of “God Bless the U.S.A.,”; and gave presentations about their states. Their costumes were creative, the state treats they brought in for the reception were delicious and their state reports were researched and well presented. All of this was accomplished under the guidance of their classroom teachers Mrs. Tobi Abrahamson, Mrs. Karen Tannenholtz, Mr. Jason David, Ms. Alyse Malc, Mrs. Fran Friedman, music teacher Mrs. Marsha Motzen and art teacher, Mrs. Malky Kazam.