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At Bais Yaakov of Queens, the fifth graders are bringing Life Science to life! In an in-depth study of the body systems, they began with the respiratory and circulatory systems. Making the lessons relevant to themselves, the girls learned how to take their own heart rates. After engaging in intense physical exercise, such as playing tag and doing jumping jacks, they measured their heart rates again. Wow! Their heart rates were so much higher and their breathing rates increased! The girls were so excited! Shouts of “I feel it!” rang through the air.

Twenty-six students inducted into the National Honor Society

On Tuesday evening, December 3, HANC High School held its 44^th National Honor Society Induction Ceremony, honoring its current members of this prestigious organization and welcoming 26 inductees into the Maalot Chapter. Members of the Honor Society must maintain a 92 average and represent excellence in Torah, scholarship, service, character, and leadership.

On Wednesday morning, December 4, Shevach High School’s debate team headed down to Bala Cynwyd, Philadelphia, for Kosloff Torah Academy’s second annual debate invitational. Before the debate meet, the Shevach team took a well-guided tour of Eastern State Penitentiary to learn about social and prison reform issues, past and present. The debate meet was scheduled to start at 5 p.m. and, by the end of the evening, the Shevach team had won three of the top awards.

Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe’s first grade celebrated a very exciting milestone: the receiving of their first Chumash. The talmidim, together with their rebbeim, grandparents, and parents, shared this very moving experience at Ner Mordechai / Shaarei Tova on Sunday morning, December 15.

Pre-1A through Second Grade focused on communities for their Social Studies focus this year, and their learning proved so much fun that they wanted to share the day with parents and friends!

It wasn’t just an open house; Hadar Bet Yaakov had an inaugural Open House Event where prospective parents enjoyed a hot schnitzel and bourekas buffet, warm cookie selections, as well as a program of rabbanim and political leaders to usher in Queens’ first Sefardi Bet Yaakov.