Dear
4th - 6th grade families,
We
finally had our first full week of learning together, and the school year is
off to a great start!
On
Sunday, we joined the 7th graders for Tefillah with Allison. Everyone sounded
wonderful, and it was such a pleasure to hear all of the beautiful voices
singing the prayers together once again.
All
of our students were given a reading assessment to complete. The purpose of the
assessments is to help us create reading groups for the school year that will
help each child improve their reading skills at a pace they can feel
comfortable with.
On
Tuesday, we introduced something new to the 6th graders. This year, in lieu of
regular Tefillah, we will be focusing on the Shabbat morning Torah service with
Cantor Gutman. This will help to better prepare the kids for their upcoming bar
and bat mitzvot. The goal is for each student to feel confident reciting the
prayers and blessings, and to make sure that they are familiar with every
aspect of the service. Once they begin tutoring for their "big day",
they will only need to focus on learning their individual portions. This will
hopefully help eliminate some of the stress. They seemed very happy to get a
head start on their preparations!
The
4th graders played reading games, and worked on "revitalizing" their
Hebrew knowledge. It's wonderful to see how much they remember from last year!
We had a nice visit from our new Ramah fellow, Miles. He spent a few minutes
getting to know our students :)
We
look forward to an amazing year of teaching and learning. Thank you for sharing
your children with us!
Wishing
you a peaceful weekend and Shabbat Shalom,
Morah
Dona Levinson
Morah
Toby Schlussel
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