Rabbi Grossman’s Corner
Summing Up World Math Day
Mar 19, 2012
On Tuesday, March 7th, The Akiva School took part in World Math Day, a global challenge to get children, ages 4-18 excited about math. The Akiva team came out in full force and below are some of the statistics from the day: - 1.57 million students from over 200...
Creativity in our classrooms
Jan 27, 2012
Our teachers are always thinking of new innovative ways to teach. Check out what's going on lately in our classrooms: Twister and phonics? Hats off to grade one teachers who are incorporating many diverse ways to teach their students phonics in order to help increase...
Messages from the Head of School
Jan 18, 2012
Authentic learning in action..
Dec 22, 2011
Research shows that by supplying a more authentic context for learning, you will increase the chance that a lesson will be remembered and can be used in other similar situations. Last week, Grade 2 classes did a fun exercise to learn more about counting and doing a...