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

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students tracked their back-

grounds by talking to their

grandparents and great-grandpar-

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ents. Part of a whole language pro-

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gram, the project also included a

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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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