It is that time again!
How about this week we take a trip through the MJGDS Blogosphere and kvell about some of the excellent projects our students and teachers are engaged in. Perhaps it is too much to expect folk to check all the blogs all the time – especially if they are not parents in a particular class AND with our new website still under construction. So allow me to serve as your tour guide this week and visit some highlights…
From Our Kindergarten Blog:
Our Latest Creation – A Book!
In conjunction with our literacy program, we have been discussing “settings” for books by comparing one book to another. In this case, we discussed the various settings of the “Miss Bindergarten” series books. Each student created the setting for his/her imaginary Miss Bindergarten book! We have compiled all of these “settings” into our 1st ebook.
Check out our latest creation:
If you own an iPad or iPhone, you can download the epub file and directly drop it into your iTunes library. Once you sync your device with iTunes, you are able to read our book.
If you are reading this post on your iPad, simply click on the epub link and choose to open in iBook.
If you do not have a device to read our eBook, you can download the pdf Where Is Miss Bindergarten? , but the children’s voices will not be audible. 
From our Community of Kindness Blog:
Advisory lunch bunch groups have started. The feedback from the advisors and the students has been extremely positive! While discussing how they have become more proactive this year, one student expressed that he does his homework FIRST when he gets home from school. He said he hasn’t been late on any assignments this year, which he explained is a HUGE accomplishment for him! WOW!
Most classes have started to talk about Begin with the end in mind, the second habit. During October, the classes will be working on class mission statements and developing personal goals for each child.
The middle school students wrote down the things that they have started doing this year to be more proactive….
From our Fifth Grade Blog:
This week in fifth grade there are….. New Jobs for Kids! Mrs. Hernandez looked at our applications online. After she looked, she picked which person deserved which job. I got Official Scribe (by the way, I am Arin). Emily and Zach got Documentarian. Ariella, Eliana, and Josh are the Global Connectors. Ayden is Librarian. Elad and Griffith are the Researchers, and Evan and Jagger are the Kindness Ambassadors. Mrs. Hernandez hasn’t figured out who the graphic designers are yet.
Now I’ll explain what all the jobs mean. Official Scribe writes the blog posts, takes notes, and really anything that has to do with writing. Documentarian is taking pictures and videos. The documentarians send me some of the pictures they take so that I can put them in the posts. Global connectors will tweet, put our Skype calls on our map and a lot more. Librarian puts some of the new words that we learn on our word wall, updates what we are reading on the wall, and straightens the books. The designers will sometimes draw visual notes and will do other design projects. Researchers look things up when we have questions. Kindness ambassadors make sure everyone is being kind to one another and don’t leave anyone out.
Meanwhile, we have been reading Out of My Mind. We are now on chapter twelve. We just read about how Melody went into a “normal” classroom. To her a “normal” classroom is a classroom with kids that don’t have disabilities. She got to sit with one of the only nice kids in that class. She sat next to a girl named Rose every Wednesday. Now she can’t go to sleep on Tuesday nights because she’s so excited.
On whole different note, we have picture day today. We took a whole-school picture, a class picture and individual pictures. Earlier today we had a school picture. Everyone was smushed into one little area. The photographer had to take a picture when no one was really ready. I wonder if that picture will be good.
Well, have a great Friday! Have a great weekend and Shabbat Shalom! 
photos and photo collage by Emily
From our Third Grade Blog:
Skypportunity… a job they’ve never heard of…
It’s a mystery indeed!
She has patients…
they are not sick…
she is not a doctor or nurse…nor does she work at a hospital…
her patients are women only…
when she is working she has to be on call 24 hours a day…
3rd graders worked SO hard to figure out this mystery…
but it just wasn’t on their radar… but they will learn about the long history of midwifery while studying the Torah with Morah Liat!
SHE IS A MIDWIFE!
Special thanks to Sharon Schmidt, a Florida Licensed Midwife and a Certified Professional Midwife at Fruitful Vine Birth Center for this Skypportunity!
From our Art Blog:
Amazing stuff, no?
Why not more from Jewish Studies Teachers? Why nothing from Middle School? Why nothing from our student blogfolios?
Got to leave something for the next tour!
