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Ms. Carter's second grade boys practiced their multiplication readiness skills by creating arrays that resemble buildings and making their own array city! An array is a grid of boxes representing a number and an excellent way to visualize multiplication facts. The students are going to keep practicing these skills until they gain full mastery of multiplication!

On Sunday, the Torah Day School Family came together for a phenomenal Fall Festival put on by our amazing Parent Teacher Association. The PTA outdid themselves with a packed Fall Festival complete with a hay ride, sack races, a bounce house, projects, delicious food and the scholastic book fair. The atmosphere was electric and TDSA's families had a a terrific time! Special thanks to PTA Presidents, Ariella Berk and Elisheva Gershon, and their parent and student volunteers for all their hard work in pulling off this amazing event!

TDSA extended a warm "fall" welcome to potential future kindergarten and first grade students and their families. While the children rotated between different projects and activities showcasing TDSA's curriculum, parents had the opportunity to socialize and speak with staff members and administrators about TDSA. Everyone had a fantastic time, especially our future students! Special thanks to our Student Ambassadors who volunteered their Sunday morning to make the event run so smoothly!

Torah Day School's students have been delighted to explore the Scholastic Book Fair. After a several year break, it's finally back and students are through the moon to browse and buy books and reading accessories! It's a great way to support TDSA's library and PTA while growing our student's love of learning!

What could be more fun than a quiz? How about a quiz that is also a scavenger hunt! The boys were spilt into teams, had to find all 120 Rashi and Gemara words spread out in the field and then translate the words for Rabbi Oratz. The boys had a great time and were able to show how well they understand the Hebrew and Aramaic words they've been learning all year.

The mood was somber throughout the school as we remembered the fallen Israeli soldiers of the IDF and victims of terrorist attacks. Boys and girls in the Middle school participated in a Yom HaZikaron ceremony that explained the meaning of the day, recited prayers for the z'chus of the fallen and their families, a bracha for the current soldiers, and tehilim for all of Klal Yisroel. Mrs. Kalnitz shared stories about Capt. Dekel Swissa, a valiant young man from Bar Giora who served as a Captain in the Golani Brigade,13th Battalion, and was killed at the Paga outpost on October 7 while saving his platoon. Dekel was TDSA's Shinshin in 2018 and lived with the Kalnitz family during his stay in Atlanta.
The lower school visited a display in the lobby depicting a timeline of the wars since the State of Israel's inception. Tomorrow, the mood swings as we celebrate Yom HaAtzmaut as a TDSA community.

How do you know the agenda for the day? You read it, of course! I walked into this Kindergarten class as they were learning the day's plan through a reading activity. This boy was asked to find a blended sound of "ST" within the letter about their major activity. Can you find it? He did!

Escape rooms involve critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration; all excellent skills to build in an academic experience. 8th grade Humanities is learning about the Cold War. Throughout the hallway and the classroom, small groups of girls were intensely focused on escaping from the communist, East side of the Berlin Wall to the West side of Germany during this escape-room-style learning activity. In this picture, the group is using Google Translate to understand German documents to help them on their journey. It was amazing to see these girls engaged in such a creative and valuable way while learning!

8G invited me to view their Ivrit presentations today. Working in pairs, they thought of rooms that served a useful purpose. Then they wrote about these rooms in Hebrew and put it on a slide show or poster. Each group presented their project entirely in Hebrew! It was amazing to see their pride, creativity, and skill

These 5th grade boys didn't even notice me walk into the classroom - they were so intensely engaged in this group discussion. Mrs. Bendicoff split the class into sections, some worked independently while this group shared their thoughts in a literature circle format on the the historical fiction book: "If I lived at the Time of the Signing of the Constitution". They came up with some insightful ideas!

"Which two arctic animals will never meet?" This is the question a kindergarten girl asked me as I observed them making polar bears, arctic hares, walruses, snow foxes, and the like. Each table featured a slew of arts and crafts supplies for the excited girls to create their cold-climate animals they learned all about during science. The answer - which I was proud to get correct - is penguins and Polar Bears. Each is native to a different pole of the globe (North and South). Ask a Kindergartener which lives where!