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The 6th and 7th grades participated in a science lab on Energy and Convection. We measured temperatures to find out how temperature changes are effected by the densities and composition of [...]

“The Mesopotamians built ziggurats. The Egyptians built pyramids. The Greeks built the Parthenon. The Romans built the Colosseum. Jews built schools. That’s why we’re still [...]

The first and second graders created shelters for a paper family that was camping and got caught in a rainstorm. They could use any or all of the following materials- wax paper, aluminum foil, [...]

Dear Friends, The Hebrew Academy of Greater Hartford and the Hebrew High School of New England are proud to join together as a single school under a new name: New England Jewish Academy. The two [...]

The Bess and Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy will be hosting a General Studies Fair this upcoming Monday, February 25th, 2019 that is open to all members of the community. Dynamic presentations [...]

Kindergarten students have been trying to get from one side of the gym to the other without touching the floor, given a few pieces of equipment, some stationary pads and their own creativity. [...]

This afternoon, the first graders completed a simple circuit using a disk battery, LED light bulb and foam sheets. The completed flashlight was in honor of the last day of Chanukah and each child [...]

The 4th Grade students studied New Empires in the Americas and then completed a diorama project. The class was divided into two students per section. Betzalel and Tamar studied the vikings and [...]

On Thursday we celebrated with a fun Chanukah Carnival, organized by our young emissary Nir, HaMorah Estee, and our middle school students. The students enjoyed visiting the different booths and [...]

As part of their landforms and bodies of water exploration, first graders controlled the amount of water flowing into their cornmeal canyon

The 5th Grade boys constructed a comic strip representing Citizenship and the Constitution in the US.  Each student studied a different section and presented their findings. The comics are [...]

First graders predicted what would happen if their various colored jelly beans had a chance to sit in water. They made predictions and observed the differences in one, five, ten and fifteen [...]

First graders using classroom math resources to discover how to decompose (take apart,) numbers   View Gallery in Google Photos  

In this short term project, these students dedicated their time to research one aspect of the war and represent it in a diorama. Showcased here was the Battle of Lexington & Concord by Moshe [...]

During journal time a difficult task was brought about for the students to ponder.  If all of a sudden, all household furniture was turned to marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate what [...]

First graders used unifix cubes to measure and compare  the height and length of stuffed animals, chair heights and even a length of the carpet from the wall to the bookshelf. To count that one, [...]