Kitah Alef Update

Dear Parents,

We have completed learning our first letter Alef.  Please feel free to look at your child's workbook and see their work. (Pages 23-25). They are eager to learn and excited to study new letters and vowels. We talked about Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. I asked the students to tell me what special Mitzvot they have done this year and what they would like to continue doing in the coming year and what are some things they are sorry for.

Hugh

•  Held the door open for his brothers
• Things he's sorry-he blocked an area at school so his friend couldn't get through

Justin -

• Helps mom with the baby
• Things he's sorry about - Sometimes doesn't listen to his sister

Zachary 

• helped the housekeeper make his bed
• he and his sister sometimes fight, she always hits him and sometimes he has to fight back

Olivia

• Helps mom and dad wash dishes
• Doesn't do bad things

Arielle

• Helped her brothers clean up their stuff
• Never did a bad thing

The purpose of this exercise to to help the students understand why we fast and the purpose of repenting. We discussed how people celebrate holiday's differently and some of the students shared their stories of how they celebrate holidays.

We began our Chai workbooks and started with Torah. The students learned the blessings for challah, wine and Shabbat candles. They learned we give thanks to God for many different things. We will work in our Torah books every week and today we began with Lesson 1; What is Torah? We talked about Adam and Eve and God's creations. Every week, we will review the previous letter and vowel and add the next letter. The goal by the end of the year is to have your children reading sentences.  If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.

Have a great weekend!

Morah Dresner Wais
(Lisa)