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.
Friday, May 27, 2016
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.
Friday, May 13, 2016
Yavneh Academy Introduces Goldberg Academy
Education is always evolving and Yavneh Academy is proud to be part of the change. Through countless 21st 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
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
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Yavneh Academy Students Recreate Beit HaMikdash Using 3D Printing
This year, something incredible is taking place in the technology lab of Yavneh Academy. It all began last year when the tech department opened a MakerSpace lab. A MakerSpace lab is a place where students can create, experiment, tinker and explore. While one of the goals of the MakerSpace is to enhance classroom learning, it very quickly became a popular recess destination for students, so much so, in fact, that the room was often filled to capacity with exuberant middle school students. Mrs. Lichtiger, Director of Educational Technology, and Mrs. Hirschhorn, Technology Integrator, were delighted by the energy these students displayed, but felt that they could use a focus. That’s when the idea light bulb went off.
Thanks to a generous donor, Yavneh Academy was the recipient of a Makerbot Mini 3D printer. Mrs. Lichtiger and Mrs. Hirschhorn asked the students if they were willing to teach themselves how to print in 3D. To use the printer, students first had to be taught CADD, Computer Aided Design and Drafting. There are many CADD programs and websites available, but after much research Mrs. Lichtiger and Mrs. Hirschhorn decided to use Tinkercad. They then challenged the students who chose to spend recess in the lab to use online tutorials to teach themselves how to use Tinkercad. Only then could they submit their 3D designs to the teachers, who would print them. It started with just a few students, but as word spread, the tech lab was inundated with students anxious to learn. They were soon printing creations such as tools, toys and action figures.
Mrs. Hirschhorn then had another idea. Many of the sixth graders were learning about the Beit HaMikdash in Judaic studies. How cool would it be to recreate different aspects of the Beit HaMikdash in 3D? The students had to research an item of the Beit HaMikdash, design it, and submit a “caption” that explained what the object was and what it was used for in the Beit HaMikdash. These students were coming to the tech lab during their free time to work on this project. Mrs. Lichtiger and Mrs. Hirschhorn expect most of the fixtures, kaylim and other aspects of the Beit Hamikdash to be completed and on display in the tech lab by Pesach.
Nothing is more moving to a teacher than to have students who are enthusiastic about learning. To have students give up their recess and free periods to devote to this project was extraordinary.
Yavneh Students Win Math Tournament
On Thursday, April 14, Yavneh Academy participated in a Math Masters Tournament of Jewish day schools at Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy in Livingston.
The tournaments consisted of both individual and team questions. Yavneh placed first overall in the competition of all schools. Yavneh students also placed first, second and third in the individual competition.
Ephraim Helfgot was first place winner, David Kapelyan won second place and Ezra Bleiberg took third.
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