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Mrs. Carter's second grade boys are flexing their non-fiction writing skills. The boys are hard at work on their non-fiction animal reports. After doing research on their favorite animals, the boys have constructed informational reports about the animals' habitats, food sources and characteristics and are in the process of drawing pictures and writing their final drafts. With topics ranging from cheetahs and falcons to ducks and ants, their reports are sure to be a fascinating read!

The Temima Play will be this coming week on March 17th and 18th. Click the link below to buy tickets.

In approximately 8 weeks, Honey & Challah Cafe is expected to open for business at Dupree, providing another opportunity for our community to come together and build lasting connections. The cafe owners have reached out to offer the attached employment opportunities to the Jewish community before posting them on the typical websites.

If you know of anyone you think would be a great fit please have them reach out to Patricia at [email protected].

Picture Day is coming to TDSA. Mark your calendars for March 25th and 26th. We will release more information about which grades are taking pictures on which day closer to Picture Day!

We're less than two weeks away from the conclusion of this year's amazing Mishna Madness program! In the last few weeks we've gone from 16 finalists to four and have learned a staggering 40,901 Mishnayos! These mishnayos are learned at home on their own time, which means that our middle school boys are learning an incredible amount of Torah and are testing and stretching their learning skills to greater and greater heights. We can't wait to see who makes it into the Final Four and we especially can't wait for Final Four event at the Atlanta Scholars Kollel on March 25th !

Last Friday, TDSA's lower school students were visited by the NED Show. The students were super excited to learn all about growth mindset the NED way: Never giving up, Encouraging others, and Doing your best! Along with important lessons in social and emotional learning the students were treating to jokes, funny stories and fascinating Yo-Yo tricks! The students had a blast and certainly learned a lot about themselves, and how resilient they can be!

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!