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Maccabiah Games

Our incredible Knesset members, and devoted faculty Maccabiah Committee, have been working tirelessly to plan a fun, engaging, family virtual Maccabiah Games day!

The schedule for the day will look as follows:

9:00-9:30 AM- Opening Ceremonies
9:30-10:00 AM- Team Meetings
10:00-10:30 AM- Snack
10:30-12:00 PM- GooseChase Missions
12:00-1:00 PM- Lunch
1:00-2:00 PM- GooseChase Missions
2:00-3:00 PM- Closing Ceremonies
As you can see, there are two time periods for GooseChase Missions. GooseChase is a digital scavenger hunt app, where missions are listed and participants are challenged to complete them by uploading video, image or text responses. We want this to be a family event, where parents & siblings can all participate in the fun GooseChase missions together during the GooseChase times. However, we understand this may not be possible for all, and students can still participate on their own, or with their siblings. Please let us know if your child needs to be paired up with a teacher. We recommend you download the app ahead of time – you can create an account or play as a guest.
Please help us reach our fundraising goal of $15, 000, which will be matched this year by a generous donor! You can make donations by visiting this link: http://bit.ly/maccabiah2020, and are encouraged to share it with family and friends as well.
Each team’s Google Meet links and GooseChase game codes will all be shared closer to the date. Students are encouraged to wear their team colour on Friday June 5.
It is sure to be an amazing day!
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Flat Morah Yaffa, Shavuot, Virtual Tour, and Maccabiah Games..Oh MY!

Dear Kindergarten,

So many things to share! Today you can print Flat Morah Yaffa, and take me with you for the next month on your many activities and adventures. There is a grid to help you with some ideas as well as your own. Please watch the Screencastify to explain how this can work, (also on the schedule). This idea comes from the Flat Stanley series, which is a book you may want to read with your children.

Yesterday we took a virtual tour of the Jelly Belly Factory in San Francisco. We took a bus there and decided to fly home instead! Here is the Jelly Belly Factory link again if you want to visit it again. We look forward to more virtual trips in the coming month of June!

Today we will celebrate with an ice-cream and fruit party for Shavuot! Chag Sameach Everyone!

Maccabiah Games are happening on June 5th  FOUR TEAMS, ONE HEART !  I am posting the team lists, the link for our fundraising page and how the day will look.

When is it happening? 
Friday, June 5th
The day begins at 9:00AM *No Middle School homeroom
Maccabiah wraps up at 3:00PM so everyone can make it to Kabbalat Shabbat
What is the theme?
OJCS Maccabiah Games
4 Teams, 1 Heart
Whether Together or Apart
What are the 4 teams?
We have the BLUE TEAM (team ROCK), GREEN TEAM (team COUNTRY), RED TEAM (team POP), and the ORANGE TEAM (team HIP-HOP). It will be a battle of the music genres!
Are we fundraising?
Sure are! This is a big fundraiser for our school. Last year we raised a little over $12,000 so this year our goal is $15,000. What makes this year even sweeter is we have a generous donor who has agreed to MATCH any donations we bring in up to the $15,000. We took the competitive team fundraising aspect away this year and everyone has 1 link to share to work toward our collective fundraising goal. Here is the link to share with your classes and on your blogs for students to share with family and friends: bit.ly/maccabiah2020
So what does the day even look like?
9:00-9:30 AM- Opening Ceremonies
9:30-10:00 AM- Team Meetings
10:00-10:30 AM- Snack
10:30-12:00 PM- GooseChase Missions
12:00-1:00 PM- Lunch
1:00-2:00 PM- GooseChase Missions
2:00-3:00 PM- Closing Ceremonies
*Links to be created and shared next week for the meetings.

 OJCS Maccabiah  Games Fundraising Link

OJCS Maccabiah Games Teams 2020

FROM ALL OF YOUR KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS, TO ALL OF OUR KINDERGARTEN FAMILIES…  CHAG SAMEACH !!

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Distant Learning in Kindergarten

The learning in our Kindergarten has been shown in so many different ways! Here are just a few of them!

Sharing on Flipgrid to answer our Math Problem of the day allows the children to Explain their Thinking!

Solving an optional challenge using S.T.E.M activities !

Building Challenge 

Beginning our project for our 2020 Covid-19 Time Capsule!

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Today we continue to create Campfires and make S’mores for Lag B’Omer!

 

 

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Creativity in Kindergarten

Need an idea for Choice Time?? Thanks to Stella and her Mom for posting this creative idea on our Choice Time Flipgrid!   Our first #OJCSEarthDay Challenge picture was completed today. Thanks to Yaara for a beautiful picture!