At Shulamith Middle Division, it’s Literacy Week

Literacy Week in the Middle Division of Shulamith School for Girls was packed with events celebrating reading and writing. Under the guidance of Director of Student Activities Rachel Steiner, Alexandra Anthony headed a group of eighth graders who masterminded many of the fun-filled activities.

We kicked off our week on Monday, Dec. 29, with a character dress-up day. Students and teachers dressed as their favorite literary characters and the halls came alive! The characters who wandered the school included Thing One and Thing Two, Peter Pan, Harry Potter, Tom Sawyer, and many others. The event was a smashing success.

On Monday, we also had a spelling bee. In the weeks before the schoolwide bee, class bees were held and two winners from each class went on to represent their peers in Monday’s competition. Fifth grade winners were Miriam Abittan, Aviv Amar, Sabrina Graff, Ariella Katz, Shira Mintz, and Haley Rosenberg. Representing the sixth grade were Shaked Harari, Rose Hecht, Jenny Lifshitz, Bailey Shapiro, Esther Rella Robinson, and Bryna Stern. Rivka Bennun, Eliana Eichler, Miri Granik, and Noa Harari won the seventh grade class bees, while Miri Biderman, Channa Gelbtuch, Eliana Hirsch, Sari Lifshitz, Rena Seidemann, and Kayla Wienerkur were the eighth grade winners.

The competition was fierce, the spellers impressive, but after multiple rounds, Haley Rosenberg emerged victorious in the fifth and sixth grade, and Rivka Bennun won on the seventh and eighth grade level.