Morah Schlussel Update

Dear Parents,

It was a pleasure to meet with some of you this past Sunday at conferences. I hope you found the meetings as informative and pleasant as I did.

While we were talking, the 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students were saying their tefillot (prayers) as we usually do first thing when we come to school.

During our class time, we continued polishing our reading skills using the HASEFER book. All the students got a copy that they took home with them. The 4th graders did pages 44 and 45 on Sunday and 46 and 47 on Tuesday.The 5th and 6th graders read pages 52 and 53 on Sunday and pages 54 and 55 on Tuesday. The pages on Tuesday have the Adon Olam prayer which is important and very familiar to the students.

The pages we covered were circled so that they can review them at home. It should only take a short time to review the two pages that we did. I ask that you encourage your children to take time to do this very important homework. This will make them much better Hebrew readers.

We reviewed the FOUR QUESTIONS  as well and we played the SHIMSHON OMER game to review the Hebrew names of parts of the body.

Tuesday was very much like Sunday, with Teffilot to begin the day and Hebrew reading and reviewing the MA NISHTANA. . We did discuss the Hagadah for a short time right after Teffilot, when we were still in the chapel.

I cannot stress enough the benefit of having your children review the reading pages that we did read on Tuesday. It will help to  give them the skill  and confidence that is so important for being a good Hebrew reader.

Have a wonderful Shabbat, Toby Schlussel