Dear Fourth-Sixth Grade Families:
Happy and Healthy 2015 to you and your entire
family. It's great to have everyone back
well rested and ready to learn. We will
be re-evaluating the students' group placement over the next couple of
weeks and reshuffling children as appropriate. We want to make sure that each student is
able to develop his/her reading skills in the best possibly learning
environment.
Over the past week we quickly introduced another upcoming
New Year, the New Year of the Trees, aka Tu B'Shvat. We are learning when we say a simple blessing
as opposed to when we say a Mitzvah blessing (commandment). We differentiate between blessings over fruit
and blessings over vegetables. We are
even learning why a banana is customarily not eaten on Tu B'Shvat since it
grows on a bush rather than a tree.
We will continue to touch upon the importance of
identifying the root words to help us understand the meaning of blessing and
prayers.
I wish you a very happy and restful Shabbat!
Donna Katz
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