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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Grade 2: Kitah Bet Happenings

Kitah Bet students had an extremely busy morning on Sunday.  The children have been working very hard to complete their panels for the school wide art project.  Our class was responsible for illustrating four of the morning blessings: Thank you God for helping the rooster/heart tell the difference between night and day; Thank you God for making me Jewish; Thank you God for making me free and Thank you God for creating me in your image. These are not easy blessings for young children to understand let alone translate into images but the Kitah Bet students rose to the challenge.  Each blessing was assigned to a group of 4-5 students.  Each group had to conceptualize the blessing, make hand motions for it, write about it, translate the meaning of the blessing into a design and execute the design on fabric. These activities happened over a series of Sundays.

This past Sunday, each group completed an artist statement explaining what had led them to make the design as they did.  Then as a group, they chose paint colors and completed painting their panel.  The results were really beautiful and inspiring. Creating this artwork was demanding on a number of different levels not the least of which was in the need for the children to work together, collaborating and compromising with each other.  This was difficult at times but they managed to work through any problems and as all will see the results were wonderful.

In other class notes, the children have begun learning about the upcoming holiday of Chanukkah.  They have begun practicing the blessings over the Chanukkah candles.  We also reviewed the history of the holiday and why we eat latkes and sufganiot.  We read a story by the well known writer, Eric Kimmel, about a boy and a magic dreidel.  More Chanukkah learning and celebrations will follow this week and next Sunday too!

Hebrew learning continues with Hamorah Margie.  The children are learning to read more letters all of the time.

Shavua Tov,
Hamorah Joanne and Hamorah Margie

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