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This past Sunday Kitah Bet had a Chagigat Kabbalat HaChumash, a celebration of receiving their first Chumash. After almost a whole year of studying Pesukim, Shorashim and life lessons from the [...]

“Like the clay in the hand of the potter…” so begins a famous Yom Kippur poem. Sixth graders at Sigel Hebrew Academy visited Greenleaf Pottery in South Windsor to see the [...]

Author and sports journalist, Steven Krasner, led fantastic writing workshops for our classes on Monday! We learned and enjoyed ourselves as we wrote collaborative narratives and mysteries. Mr. [...]

Second graders designed and tested a shelter, from limited materials, to protect their paper family from a rainstorm \

First graders participated in a Citrus Sense-ational lab. They compared grapefruit, orange, lemon, lime , banana and estrogs for texture, smell, taste and compared them visually.  

Second graders employed the Engineering Design Process to solve the problem of Sam the boating gummy worm who had an unfortunate accident. He forgot to put on his life preserver and his boat [...]

Get Caught Engineering Row, Row, Row Your Foil Boat.   Each student had the same size piece of foil  and needed to design, test and redesign their boat design to see which boat could hold [...]

Kindergarten had fun hunting for lower case letters for morning work in classroom. Students have been working on mastering identifying and forming lower case letters. Students had to trace each [...]

Our students have been diligently raising money for the people affected by Hurricane Harvey. Their passion to help people in need is very admirable and reflective of the chesed that they see in [...]

The second grade students checked out their new books from scholastic this past week and also wrote opinion pieces in their journals. Check out the pictures below

Every year, the local post of the Jewish War Veterans sponsors a Memorial Day essay contest for students at the Hebrew Academy. This year, our third and fourth graders participated. Under the [...]

In celebration of finishing the Book of Shoftim with R. Jaffee, the 5th graders wanted to put on a play of the last story studied, Micha. They practiced for a month writing and rewriting, coming [...]

Click below to see pictures from this year’s Lag Ba’Omer field day.

In the 3rd and 4th graders’ latest science experiment, they learned that bones can be very strong. They learned that the outside of our bones is very compact, but the inside has soft [...]

Kitah Aleph were busy cleaning their desks today with the upcoming Pesach holiday. They sang gleefully, chirping all throughout the process. They were thrilled with the end result. Mommy’s, [...]

During the period before, during, and after the destruction of the ???? ??? ,the ??????? and its leaders, from Hillel HaZaken until Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi, a chain of six leaders in a direct line [...]

Our First Grade Class visited The Connecticut Science Museum on Tuesday. Mrs. Kelly Beyus and Parent Chaperones, Jennifer Wolpaw, Maggie Gertel and Grandpa Victor Bernstein accompanied the [...]

5-8th grades have been preparing for a special Tu B’Shvat event that we will be celebrating together with our sister school in Afula, Israel, via live chat. Here the students are decorating [...]

On Monday, our school had the most incredible experience with Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich. For one hour, our students heard his heroic story, learned from a man who epitomizes faith in G-D and [...]