Grade 5 students learn to code using Scratch and EV3 educational Robotics. They use collaboration and problem-solving skills to solve challenges and create educational simulations.
Akiva Races to the Top at the GMAA Halo Race
Akiva students in grades 4, 5 and 6 participated in the GMAA Halo Race 2025 with other students from elementary schools across Montreal. Akiva students were in fine form and finished the race in great standings; in the Boys’ Group, grades 5-6, Akiva students...
Celebrating Yom Ha-Atzma’ut at Akiva
Together we remember and celebrate our past, present, and future This week was a busy week of remembrance, celebration, and community at Akiva School as we commemorated Yom Ha-Zikkaron and Yom Ha-Atzma’ut. Parents joined our Yom Ha-Zikkaron assembly for grades 4...
Akiva Students Shine in the Westmount McEntyre Writing Competition
Congratulations to the winners of this year’s McEntyre Writing Competition! Organized by the City of Westmount, with over 1,200 entries from schools around the city, our students won awards for their remarkable pieces of writing in grades 2, 3,4 and 6! Mazal...
Akiva School Remembers – Yom Ha-Sho’ah 2025
This week, Akiva School commemorated Yom Ha-Sho’ah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, with inspirational speakers, thoughtful programming, and meaningful projects. Grade 5 and 6 participated in a powerful Yom Ha-Sho’ah ceremony featuring two special guest...Akiva Calendar
Rabbi Grossman’s Corner
Scratch Programming – Robotics-Gr5
Our Solar System
Grade 2 students learn about the solar system through hands on art-crafts activities. The focus of this activity was on the earths movement around the sun.
Shadows and Light
Grade 1 Students learn how to manipulate shadows using light. Through these activities students reflect on the effect of sunlight as it moves throughout the day.
New Beginnings
This week we begin the annual Torah reading cycle, starting with the creation of the world in the first chapter of Genesis. Standard English translations, based primarily on non-Jewish sources, render the first words of our parasha, “In the beginning, God created the...