Kindergarten and Fifth-Grade Buddies Team Up on a Scavenger Hunt

If you were at Schechter Westchester/Leffell as a Lower School student, you likely remember the thrill of being a kindergartner and spending time with your fifth-grade buddy…. or the excitement of finally being a fifth-grade buddy yourself! The tradition carries on, and the buddies recently spent an autumn afternoon together on a nature scavenger hunt, finding items like acorns, pine needles, and red leaves across our beautiful campus. These buddy relationships last beyond grades K/5. On Rosh Chodesh, our sixth graders had a visit with their buddies, now in first grade, and the two grades collaborated on a moon cycle project in honor of the new month. If you have a favorite kindergarten/fifth-grade memory, please share! We’d love to hear about it.