Dear
4th - 6th grade families,
Everyone
started the new cycle of Chugim (electives). Some repeated the same one they
had previously, while others chose to try something new. Fun was had by all! The chugim that are students participate in our Jewish Pop Culture, Challah Braiding, and Gaga (Israeli dodge ball).
The
4th and 5th graders from Morah Katz and Morah Zachor's class joined us for our
reading class. We practiced reading a few pages in our Hasefer books, played a
fun Aleph Bet game and then, at the end of the day Morah Schlussel lead the
kids in an exciting game of "Shimshon Omer" (Hebrew "Simon
Says"). They had a great time learning various names of body parts in Hebrew,
and it also helped them move around and get out some of their wiggles!
On
Tuesday in the 6th and 7th grade "Torah Lab", the kids were all
divided up into different groups pertaining to the actual Torah service. They
practiced with the teachers all the different parts of the service and the
"honors" involved. They worked very hard and we will continue to hone
these skills in the weeks to come. The Torah service honors that the kids are working on are:
Blessings before and after Torah, Hagbah and Galilah (lifting and dressing the Torah), delivering the Dvar Torah, serving as Gabbi (accuracy checker), Torah reader, Ashrei leader, and processional leader.
The
4th and 5th graders worked on their letter and vowel recognition packets,
focusing mainly on letters that sound and/or look alike. Then at the end of the
day as per the kids' request, we played another quick game of "Shimshon
Omer". This was a fantastic idea, since everyone seemed to have LOTS of
energy to get rid of! They are quickly learning the body parts in Hebrew; ask
your children to share with you some of the vocabulary words they
remember.
B'Shalom,
Morah
Dona Levinson
Morah
Toby Schlussel
Morah Aliza Zachor
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