Dear
Parents,
What a great day we had on Sunday. We reviewed the letters we have learned and introduced the letter "yod". The students had an assignment with letter recognition. They were given about four letters and one was different. They had to circle the one that was different and explain why they thought it was different. The practiced writing the letter Yod several times and learned that the letter itself resembled their hand which was their clue as to what a Yad is. They also know why we have to use a yad to read from the Torah. Its amazing at the responses I received but they definitely understand why they cannot tough a torah with their hands. I also had them look at a series of pictures and I read them sentences in hebrew and they had to figure out which picture would match the sentence I read. They are doing an incredible job understanding several hebrew words and are formulating sentences.
Please look at the outside board of our classroom to see your children's amazing words of what Shabbat means to them. You will be very impressed at how they express the way they feel about Religious School, friends, family and even teachers. They have each personalized their connection to God and expressed it so beautifully.
We worked on our Chai lesson and talked about Helping our synagogue Community. Who is a Jewish Hero? We talked about how a Jewish Hero is someone who helps our synagogue community. I explained to the students that it takes several people to run a synagogue. People give their time to make sure they have a nice place to learn, pray, celebrate and help other people.This lesson is part of our g'milut chasadim unit and the students learned that community helpers are people who perform acts of loving-kindness. We talked about Rabbis, Cantors. teachers and librarians and how all these people have very important jobs to help run a synagogue properly. The students understood this very well because we talked about how Rabbi Starr leads our Tefillah service on Sunday's. They learn hebrew songs, holiday's and even answer general questions. The students learned the importance of saying thank you and we discussed the people we could thank at their synagogue's. We talked about all the people in the synagogue community who help us live a better life. We will continue this unit and what it means to be a Jewish Hero.
Enjoy the rest of your week!
Thank you,
Morah Dresner Wais
What a great day we had on Sunday. We reviewed the letters we have learned and introduced the letter "yod". The students had an assignment with letter recognition. They were given about four letters and one was different. They had to circle the one that was different and explain why they thought it was different. The practiced writing the letter Yod several times and learned that the letter itself resembled their hand which was their clue as to what a Yad is. They also know why we have to use a yad to read from the Torah. Its amazing at the responses I received but they definitely understand why they cannot tough a torah with their hands. I also had them look at a series of pictures and I read them sentences in hebrew and they had to figure out which picture would match the sentence I read. They are doing an incredible job understanding several hebrew words and are formulating sentences.
Please look at the outside board of our classroom to see your children's amazing words of what Shabbat means to them. You will be very impressed at how they express the way they feel about Religious School, friends, family and even teachers. They have each personalized their connection to God and expressed it so beautifully.
We worked on our Chai lesson and talked about Helping our synagogue Community. Who is a Jewish Hero? We talked about how a Jewish Hero is someone who helps our synagogue community. I explained to the students that it takes several people to run a synagogue. People give their time to make sure they have a nice place to learn, pray, celebrate and help other people.This lesson is part of our g'milut chasadim unit and the students learned that community helpers are people who perform acts of loving-kindness. We talked about Rabbis, Cantors. teachers and librarians and how all these people have very important jobs to help run a synagogue properly. The students understood this very well because we talked about how Rabbi Starr leads our Tefillah service on Sunday's. They learn hebrew songs, holiday's and even answer general questions. The students learned the importance of saying thank you and we discussed the people we could thank at their synagogue's. We talked about all the people in the synagogue community who help us live a better life. We will continue this unit and what it means to be a Jewish Hero.
Enjoy the rest of your week!
Thank you,
Morah Dresner Wais
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