On Wednesday of this past week, our fifth grade students went to BizTown. BizTown is a 10,000 square foot indoor mini-city where our students had the opportunity to participate in a full-day, immersive experience. Our students worked in one of 21 businesses, made personal financial decisions, held business meetings, paid taxes and donated to charity. They filled all of the important jobs in a city, including judge, police officer, bank teller, public utilities worker, doctor, dentist, insurance agent, news anchor, reporter and more.
BizTown was the culminating field trip that followed four weeks of curriculum and preparation in the classroom. During their BizTown preparation, students learned how to be a citizen, how an economy works, how to apply and interview for a job and how to run a successful business.
We want our students to learn in real-life and relevant ways as they explore all the possibilities that are open to them. Fifth graders will continue to hone their entrepreneurial and business skills this year through our Chicken Club, the Junior Achievement “Our Nation” curriculum and more.
Supporting your child’s reading and writing development at home With the big push for literacy learning in the elementary school years, parents are often looking for fun and impactful ways to support their child’s reading and writing development. As I mentioned in my article on Home Learning in the previous GMLS newsletter, reading at home […]
Did you know that GMLS is the only elementary school in San Diego County to be a Project Lead the Way school?? PLTW is a project-based STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) curriculum that is infused into our science (gr. K-5) and STEM (gr. 3-5) classes. The PLTW organization works in partnership with schools, higher […]
Based on the twelve Tribes of Israel, every GMLS student is a member of a “tribe.” A tribe is a mix of children from different grades, nationalities and language backgrounds. At GMLS, we have nine tribes –Asher, Binyamin, Naphtali, Dan, Reuven, Gad, Shimon and Yehuda. Each tribe has a specific color and their own tribe […]
On Wednesday of this past week, our fifth grade students went to BizTown. BizTown is a 10,000 square foot indoor mini-city where our students had the opportunity to participate in a full-day, immersive experience. Our students worked in one of 21 businesses, made personal financial decisions, held business meetings, paid taxes and donated to charity. […]
Shabbat San Diego Jewish Federation of San Diego Special Event with Ron Dermer, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States StandWithUs Festival of Lights ‘I ❤️ Israel’ Gala ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ Join the San Diego pro-Israel community at the 6th annual StandWithUs Festival of Lights ‘I ❤️ Israel’ Gala on Saturday, 12/2, at the Marriott Marquis. Evening […]
It is my privilege to serve as the President of the Board of Trustees of SDJA. Our board is made up of parents of SDJA students, alumni, and community members who feel passionately about the school and enthusiastically give of themselves in so many ways to nurture and sustain SDJA, now and into the future. […]
