Torah Readings

Last week three of our fourth graders read from the Torah at Tefillah. Parents and grandparents were in attendance to support the students in this memorable activity.

A Few More Nice Days...

December 4 and still relatively nice outside!!!

The students at Akiva were outside last week enjoying their last few days of nice weather!!

"Go Bucks" ... "Go Blue"

We have had a fun week cheering for our favorite team.

The "best rivalry ever" takes place tomorrow at noon.

The winning posters were displayed in the hallway.

The following are some random pictures taken around our building this week:

The winners of the trivia contest on Friday...

Good Luck to both teams tomorrow!

Poster Contest Winners

Students created posters promoting their teams in the Ohio State / Michigan rivalry.
Each classroom selected the winner from their room. Those seven winning posters were then judged by the staff and the top three winners were announced. The top three winners were awarded books and a team photograph.


Mrs. Schonberger created her own Michigan poster... pretty impressive.



Students display the posters voted as 1st, 2nd and 3rd.



... and our other classroom winners.

Ohio State Michigan Week

Throughout this week we will have various activities involving our students and their families to get ready for Saturday's game. Activiites will include trivia questions, poster contest and "dress up" days. Students on Friday will also get the opportunity to predict the score of the game on Saturday.

Congratulations to these students who won the trivia question raffle today.

Torah Readings

Congratulations to our fourth graders who have been doing their Torah readings at Tefillah for the first time.

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Pet Parade

Mrs. Spiegle and her second grade class had a very successful Pet Parade this morning.

The weather truly cooperated with a sunny and blue sky shining down on the students, their pets and all of the guests and Akiva classrooms that came out on the tennis court to view the pets.

Click on the arrow to view the video.

Good Job, Second Graders and Mrs. Spiegle!!!

Spirit Cups Fundraiser

We will continue with our Spirit Cups Fundraiser through this Wednesday.

Here are some of the students who turned in at least three orders, as they claimed their free cup and their photograph from an OSU football game.

Thanks to all of the families who have participated in this fund raiser. All of the money earned will remain here at Akiva and will be used to purchase technology and instructional materials for our classrooms.

"Meet the Teacher" Night

Last Thursday we had a successful "Meet the teacher" Night here at Akiva.

This was an opportunity for parents to visit their child's classroom to learn about this year's curriculum and the instructional activities planned throughout the year.

Book Fair

Another successful Book Fair this year!!

Great "Did You Know? Video

Welcome Back !!!

On behalf of the entire Akiva Academy staff we would like to welcome all of our students back for the 2009-2010 school year.

Our sixth grade students would like to introduce themselves to you.

Have a Safe and Enjoyable Summer

Hope you are enjoying the summer months with your family and friends.

We look forward to you returning to Akiva for our first day back on August 24th.

Science Dissections

During the last few weeks several grades have been working on dissections in Science Class. Mrs. Katz has worked with the students as they dissect frogs, crayfish and fetal pigs.

What an outstanding elementary school science curriculum!!!

Here sixth graders examine the fetal pig.

Lag Ba'Omer Picnic

Today, with sunshine overhead, we went outside for a Lag ba'Omer picnic lunch.
Thanks to Mrs. Schonberger for obtaining all of the food items...and...for cooking the hot dogs for us.
Thanks also goes out to the parents who were there to assist us during the lunch period.

Earth Day

Mrs. Katz, our Science teacher, had her classes involved in several special activities today for Earth Day. Here the 4th grade students are demonstrating how fragile the Earth is by throwing an egg (colored to depict the Earth).
Dirt cake and H2O were also eaten as part of the Earth Day celebration.

Here students toss an egg, (colored as the earth) back and forth, attempting to catch and protect it at all costs.

Maddie's Earth is safe....

... Here Amanda's Earth has been destroyed.

Time Machine

The sixth grade class has been working on a research project on ancient civilizations since earlier in the school year.
Their project resulted in a special culminating activity that involved all of the other Akiva students.
The other classrooms were invited to visit and to enter a “time machine” that would transport students to far away lands of long ago.
After exiting the “time machine”, students were issued passports and were sent to places such as Mesopotamia, Greece, India, Rome, China and Egypt.

After School Enrichment Classes

During the last month we have had several students attending various After School Enrichment Classes. These included:

... Golf Instruction

... Yoga

... Science Club

... and Computer Instruction

Presidential Active Lifestyle Awards

Miss Darla, our Physical Education teacher, presents the Presidential Active Lifestyle Awards to Lexi, Eric and Arsenia. Students were able to independently log their "active lifestyle" and submit their log for approval and for the award. Students were required to show that they had done activities for at least one hour a day, six days a week for six weeks.

Good job. Congratulations!!