Above: History buffs Daniel Newman,
liana Borzak, Yissachar Jerusalem,
Eitan Codish and Rebecca Halpern.
eacher Janice Salter's fourth-
graders at Akiva Hebrew
Day School let their creativity
Right: Eitan Codish's
family was all
over the map.
branch out as they dug up their
roots.
As part of a class project on
immigration, the social studies
cip
Lu
students tracked their back-
grounds by talking to their
grandparents and great-grandpar-
cc)
ents. Part of a whole language pro-
LLJ
gram, the project also included a
CD
CC
F-
LU
1=1
LLJ
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mathematical aspect —bar-graphing
the information students uncovered
— and a literary component. Students
read a book about a Chinese girl who
immigrated to the United States.
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