Candle fundraiser: a huge success!

The recently held fundraiser for the class trip to Washington, D.C. was a huge success.
The students worked diligently on Friday to inventory, sort, fill and distribute the candle orders. I am so proud of the spirit of teamwork and cooperation that prevailed in our classroom.
The students would like to thank each of you who purchased a pie candle. Your purchase brought them closer to their goal of raising funds for the special trip to our nation's capital in the spring. Once again, many, many thanks!

Friday, Pie Candle Day!!! The sixth grade classroom was transformed to a candle factory when our candles arrived. A sea of little white pastry boxes filled the room as well as the wonderful scents of apple, pumpkin, spiced cranberry and other seasonal smells.

It was a picture perfect day for the students of grades 5 and 6 as they pose in front of the lake at Whitehouse Farm.

Members of the 6th grade Akiva Geek Squad at your service!

They are ready, willing and able to help with any computer queries.

Members of the 6th grade Akiva Green Team. Thanks for volunteering to keep the earth green!

Autumn at Akiva

A chill is in the air and the frost is on the pumpkins! The crisp autumn season finds the sixth graders well into the groove of schoolwork and class projects.

Speaking of pumpkins, the students of grades 5 and 6 enjoyed a wonderful day at Whitehouse Fruit Farm on Tuesday. A tour of the farm proved to be educational and the treats of freshly made apple cider and doughnuts made the trip all the more enjoyable. Mother nature cooperated by giving us a bright, sunny day to enjoy our trip.



Math classes are advancing nicely with the students learning the foundations of algebra. Some of them have discovered the that art of working with numbers is fun and not at all boring. They also have added some new terminology to their vocabulary such as divisibility, prime factorization, commutative, associative, distributive, LCM and GCF. Whew! If you can't remember what some of those words mean, just ask a sixth grader.



Social Studies takes the students on adventures far and wide. We begin our journey to the ancient civilization of the Fertile Crescent. This region, surrounded by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, was where Assyrian, Babylonian and Sumerian empires developed and Judaism began. Ask a sixth grader what cuneiform is or what a ziggurat was used for and they will give you an answer as knowledgeable as an archaeologist's!



Class book reports are due on the 15th of the month. The theme of each month is posted in the classroom for student reference. Students are familiar with my motto: Readers are Leaders!



I am so proud of the 6th grade students' study skills. They take their tests seriously and have yet to miss a night's homework assignment. They make my job most enjoyable!