Social Studies Fair and Art Show

ASHAR's Social Studies Fair took place on Tuesday, May 5th from 7:00-9:00 p.m. in the gym. It was magnificent! The fair was coordinated by Dr. Rachel Schnur, Director of Curriculum & Instruction at ASHAR for grades 1-8.

To view pictures from the Social Studies Fair, please visit the Photo Gallery.

The following are some of the highlights of the fair:

• Vendors with international foods (European, Chinese/Japanese/Israeli)
  Languages spoken: English, Hebrew, French, Spanish
  
• Flags of many countries
  
• First Grade: family trees, photographs, Flat Stanley travels across the United States, Flat Stanley travels around the world, Israel
  
• Second Grade: dioramas of urban, rural, suburban communities, video of the students explaining their dioramas, Hebrew books about trees of many countries
  
• Third Grade: models, posters, booklets of Japan, France, and several countries in Africa, the students came dressed as Japanese or French individuals
  
• Fourth Grade: NYS symbols, NYS government posters and models, Native American structures and models, New York colonies, colonial diaries, students came dressed as colonial children
  
• Fifth grade: state reports of the United States, posters, charts, models of Canada, Mexico, Latin America
  
• Sixth grade: models of ancient civilizations including a huge model of a pyramid, mummy, country reports, units in Tanach
  
• Seventh grade: units in Torah having to do with the Land of Israel, American history posters, charts, research reports on early American presidents
  
• Eighth grade: Color War emblems, maps of Israel, American history II posters, models, progressive presidents, research papers on the Holocaust, other Jewish history.
  

The social studies fair was so well attended that the parking lot was filled beyond capacity and was considered a major success!
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The Art Show that was coordinated by our own resident artist, Lauren Walling, was unbelievable. Every single bulletin board on the first two floors of our building was decorated with a different project involving sewing, puppetry, clay, and so many other mediums. Brochures were artistically designed and distributed to explain the different artistic representations, which even included an entire wall of underwater animals created by students on a watercolor background.  Beautiful cards were designed and hand-painted by our own students. Our students are learning about art, real art, not just cutting and pasting. Wow!

Please visit our Photo Gallery to view samples of our students' work, which were displayed at the Art Show.