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Kochavim

Kochavim Happenings…

We are so glad that everyone is here for the new school year….so many of our friends were out of town for various reasons (traveling, Shabbatone,etc.).

We talked about the upcoming holiday of Rosh Hashanah and the various religious symbols we see and what they mean.  A discussion began about what we would put in our round challah to make it sweet (sprinkles) and tasty.  We watched a few minutes of  Shaboom! “Be the Best Me” and whenever we saw a religious symbol we told the children to say “stop” and tell us what they saw and what it meant.  The children learned the words for honey (devash) and apple/apples (tapuach/tapuchim).

During Tefillah, the children learned that we use special melodies for the upcoming High Holidays and the children caught on so quickly for just hearing them once.

We look forward to seeing everyone after all the High Holidays…

L’shanah tovah tikatevu,

Mrs. Sender
Mrs. Waxman

Dear Parents,

 

What an incredible start to a new year together. The Gimel/Dalet teaching team had a blast getting to know your children this week and we can’t wait to spend the next school year together. 

 

This week in Judaica we began our unit on Teshuvah, which focuses on taking responsibility for one’s actions through repentance.  During Hebrew we began with some Hebrew intake to learn where each student is currently at to start the year.  A recap of the week is below:

                              

Recap:

  • Students and teachers started the week by introducing themselves and then with suggestions from the students we created our classroom Brit, our agreement about how we will create our Gimel/Dalet community.
  • Students learned the meaning of the Shehechiyanu Prayer and when we say it.
  • Students learned how the process of teshuvah can be a tool to learn from mistakes instead of denying that mistakes were made.
  • Students learned the 4 steps of Teshuvah, the Jewish process of how we return to the right path after we’ve made a mistake and did some roleplaying to practice using the steps. Students should now be able to explain the four step process to doing Teshuva and why the process of teshuvah is so important when they inevitably make mistakes.
  • Teachers worked individually with students to discover their current Hebrew strengths and areas for growth with the goal of meeting them where they are.
  • We wrapped up the week by starting conversation about the upcoming holiday of Rosh Hashanah and even got to listen to a fun parody song. Feel free to check it out here
 

Table Talk: How can we use the steps of teshuvah to help with a problem at home or at school?

 

My.ShalomLearning.org Activity for next week: 4.1.2 Teshuvah Week 2  

 

Next week: 

We will concentrate on practicing Tashlich, looking at the role of rituals and focus on hearing the shofar, our central Rosh Hashanah ritual, and what the sound of the shofar reminds us to do.  We will also start work in our Hebrew groups.

 

Have a great week!

 

Shana Tova,

Marc, Jessica, and Mona

Gimel/Dalet Teaching Team

updates coming soon!

updates coming soon!

Kitah Zayin

  • The 7th graders led Sh’ma at the Sunday Morning Minyan and taught the 5th and 6th graders what to do.
  • We created our Brit Kitah (Classroom Agreement). https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4jMsiyaoSwSnsRveg4H6DG-PEw36vTXNebnrReMkk4/edit?usp=sharing
  • We had a discussion about the purpose of prayer to build our relationship with G-d
  • We characterised our relationship with G-d in terms of Our Parent and Our Sovereign in relation to the Rosh Hashanah Prayer, Avinu Malkeinu.
  • We discussed the steps one would need to do teshuvah and be forgiven by our peers before G-d can forgive us. It’s not enough to throw bread in the water for Tashlich. 

Morah Sarah Burnstein

MADRICHIM TEAM LEARNING:

Facilitated by Jamie Loewenthal

Sunday, August 30