Thursday, January 30, 2014

Dear Families,

This week the first and second graders started a fun project. It is our job to decorate the bulletin board in the front hall in a couple of weeks. So, we began to learn what is was like to go through Ellis Island, step by step, when coming to America as an immigrant many years ago. There is a wonderful website for kids from Scholastic which takes viewers on an interactive tour of Ellis Island and we used that as a guide. The students are working to represent each step of the way, from arrival to inspection to entering New York. When we are finished we will display our work as a "walking tour" for the rest of the school. In addition, we read a beautiful story called The Memory Coat by Elvira Woodruff. Rachel and her family arrive at Ellis Island and their cousin receives a chalk mark "E" on his back as he is inspected at Ellis Island. Will he be able to enter America?

Shabbat Shalom,

Hamorah Caren