Kitah Vav Update

April 25, 2017

Hello all –

We are entering the home stretch of religious school. It is always difficult when we come back after Passover, as the kids are in Spring Mode.  I have am wondering if wearing a giant inflatable dinosaur costume at all times might help, and am willing to take that plunge, if need be.  We shall see. It is always good to keep a trick or two in your back pocket. J In the meantime, while I know that spring sports are here and the kids’ schedules are crazy, just a gentle reminder that they are in Judiacs class from 11:25 – 12:15, so if they leave at 11:30, they  miss all of their Judaics lesson… and my giant inflatable dinosaur costume. And that’s just tragic.  Please make sure if your child needs to leave early, that he/she circles back with me BEFORE or AFTER class the next week, so I can catch him/her up.  And, of course, there is always the blog.  This past Sunday we began with 15 kids and I had 4 by 11:45.  And such is spring.   So, as for Sunday, we don’t have much to report, as we REDID the lesson on Tuesday.

Since I am typing this Tuesday morning, let’s pretend that this class went as follows.  In my mind, this is EXACTLY what is going to happen, but who knows.  Usually I am at least 20% right. J But this is the lesson planned. First, I will look stunning in my inflatable T-Rex costume and the kids will ALL be there and then they will all leave to go on to play baseball AFTER religious ed and naturally, win their games.  They will then go home, eat all of their veggies without complaint, and their chicken (even without fried breading on it), not torture their siblings, do their homework, brush their teeth without leaving globs of toothpaste in the sink, and go to bed by 9:00 p.m. with the day’s clothing neatly tossed in the hamper.  Just so you know: this happened.  I guarantee it.

Tuesday plan:  We learn about Moses as an imperfect leader.  Why? One might ask… because I want the kids to know that YOU TOO can be like Moses.  You do NOT have to be PERFECT.  But you can have GIANT positive impacts on the world and on the Jewish people.  We discuss what it means to be a leader, what characteristics leaders hold – both positive and negative.  We then discuss in popular culture what the characteristics those leaders hold.  We see a short google slide show that Morah Leah made.. naturally, the internet does not go out and the Smartboard works perfectly.  Then, The kids do an activity that involves lemons and leadership (ask them about this… it’s a good one), and it ends by making homemade lemonade.  Yum.  On Sunday we will move on to discuss specific characteristics of Moses and tie them in to characteristics he shares with other leaders that they are familiar with.

Please mark May 2 as an important date – the kids are making their YADS with Gail Kaplan.  These are the ones that they use for their Bar/Bat mitzvahs!  They are BEAUTIFUL and are generously sponsored by CSZ. 

Please also mark May 21^st from 11- 12 in your calendar.  You will meet your children for the last day of religious school for the all school, family Shavuot program.  Looking forward to having you there.

Have a great weekend,

Leah