Dear families:
A day filled with learning and
fun. In tefillah, Cantor Ken taught us
the signs for the beginning of brachot: Baruch
atah Adonai elohaynu, melech ha o’olam, and then the sign for amen. Ask
your child to show you.
Back in class,
we turned to HEBREW: First we learned
ס “samech,”
the first letter in “sefer” (book), Sukkot, siddur, and “sivivon” (the Hebrew
word for dreidel). Each week, we also review previous letters., noting
look-alike letters like ח ת and ה. Our
second letter is is פ, which sounds like “f.”
.I don’t know any words which
start with fay, but it is found in the word shofar
שופר and sefer (book) ספר.
Then it
was time for brachot and snack. Students
finishing snack and craft early have the opportunity to work on holiday and
Hebrew games.
BOOK: I showed my of photos from the trip to Israel my husband
and I took with a synagogue. We looked at images of Jerusalem, including
the kotel, the giant menorah, and the Israel Museum. We also viewed an
archaeological dig, Masada, the Dead Sea, Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Eilat. We
concluded with pictures of Israeli innovations in computers, medicine, and cell
phones.
Ariel,
our class madricha, showed some of her Israel photos—dorito bags in Hebrew,
shops, and tourist sites. The children
especially enjoyed a Jaffa orange tree suspended by wires.
CRAFT: Students
wrote about something they like about Israel and illustrated it. Some chose floating in the Dead Sea. riding a
camel, or leaving a note in the Kotel.
GODLY
PLAY: Our story today was about Lag B’Omer. On the 33rd day of the counting of
the Omer, we remember scholars, and we have fun and games. Rabbi Akiba continued to study and teach the
Torah, though the Roman’s forbade it, threatening punishment for
disobedience. Akiba told the story of
the fox and the fish. The fox hoped to
eat the fish by coaxing them to leave the stream. The clever fish responded: “The water is our
source of life. We cannot live without
it.” In the same way, Akiba explained
that the Torah is life for the Jews, though it was dangerous to study it.Without
it, we would “truly be like fish out of water”
IMPORTANT NOTE—PLEASE
HAVE YOUR CHILDREN WEAR CASUAL CLOTHES OR A SMOCK ON May 14. WE WILL PLAY GAMES AND TIE-DYE SHIRTS. THE DYE IS PERMANENT AND WILL STAIN CLOTHING.
Shavua tov—have a good week!
Judy and Cheryl (Esther and Tzipporah)
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