Morah Schlussel Update

Dear Parents,

This past Sunday our students chose which minyan they wanted to go to. Cantor Gutman's minyan concentrated on the teffilot that the students will help lead and participate in at  Shabbat services. Some of the students actually led various prayers instead of Cantor Gutman.

One of our Hebrew teachers was out ill and so we combined all the 5th and 5th graders into one class .  We did the same with the 4th grade group.

The lesson was about Lag Ba'omer. Ask your children what it means  and what it is. We had groups of students use their internet hand held devices to do some research about the holiday and about a great Rabbi, Rabbi  Akiva, who lived during the Roman period of Jewish History and was very involved in the history of the holiday. Ask your children about him and what happened to him at that time in history.
The students upon completing their research, shared what they found with the class. Each group had the opportunity to do this and everyone was very interested in hearing about what their classmates found.

We discussed the custom of cutting a boy's hair at the age of 3 and how in the ancient city of Meron Israel on Lag Baomer this custom is still performed today.

We spoke about the large bonfires that are lit all over Israel on Lag B'Omer.

We also learned a song called "Amar Rabbi Akiva". Ask your children to sing it to you.

It was a different lesson that what we usually do, but the students were so interested in learning about Rabbi Akiva's life and how his wife sacrificed so that he could become a great Torah scholar. It was a great lesson with a different approach.

 On Tuesday there was only one minyan in the small chapel.
 After Teffilot , we began the Hebrew lesson of the day. The weather was so nice , that at the end of the lesson we spent a few minutes outside, learning the names of the colors of the playground equipment in Hebrew. Ask your children how to say blue in Hebrew.

We covered pages 61 and 62 in the HASEFER with the 5th and 6th grades.

We covered page 53 with the 4th graders in the HASEFER.

Please review these pages with your childresn

Have a Shabbat Shalom. See you all on Sunday.   Toby Schlussel