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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, [...]

We have been so busy in Pre-K. Our first week focus in Ms. Walker’s room has been on getting to know each other and learning about our classroom routines and centers. Following a schedule [...]

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 [...]