Shalom Atid Families!
Woohoo! We had another fantastic week of learning this Sunday! It is a delight to visit our students and teachers in the classrooms and see the fun learning activities they are engaging in!
1. As long as the weather cooperates, we do go outside for a quick break mid morning, please send a sweater if your child is easily cold.
2. Please make sure your child wears clothing that they feel comfortable doing art projects, outdoor play, etc, in.
3. If your child is being picked up early, please let me know either by email or at drop off in the morning. When you arrive to pick up, please come find me and I will get your child from the classroom.
4. Each week, please remember your Atid folder and tzedakah money.
At the end of the morning on Sunday, as our classes gathered in the lobby, Rabbi Shull joined us and blew the shofar to help us prepare for the High Holidays. Ask your child how many second’s long his Tekiah Gedolah was!
Did you know….the shofar is blown 100 times on Rosh Hashanah!
*Ashkenazim, Jews of Eastern European decent, traditionally blow 100 shofar sounds. This tradition has its roots in a halachic question. Bearing in mind that hearing nine shofar blasts fulfills the shofar requirement, the rabbis wondered: What is the authentic shofar sound? Is it a tekiah, one long blast? shevarim, three medium-length blasts? or teruah, nine or ten short blasts? Or should a shevarim and teruah be blown together. Since the true answer isn’t known, sets of each sound are blown, each one bracketed by a tekiah, for a total of 100.
Shalom,
Luisa
“Look to tomorrow and always strive for peace.” -Shimon Peres (1923-2016)….Baruch Dayan HaEmet
Kitah Alef (K-2)
Teacher: Limor Dahan
Today we:
Decorated our class Tzedakah box, the kids cut some pictures from magazines that shows different ways that we can give Tzedakah , for example pictures for different kinds of food, clothes, books,shoes, etc.
Read the book The Magic Pomegranate by Peninnah Schram.
Talked about how the pomegranate contains 613 kernels like the 613 mitzvot in the Torah.
Thank you Marlene for sending a pomegranate so we could taste it.
On Rosh Hashanah we say a blessing over the pomegranate, the seeds serving as a reminder of the 613 commandments.
Today we started to learn the Alef Bet, each week we will learn one letter and the sound the letter makes. Today we learned the letter Resh and we decorated our Resh page with red tissue paper so the kids remember the sound that the letter makes. I will save the letter pages and in the end of the year I will make a Alef bet book for the kids.
*Please remember your blue ATID folder each Sunday! 🙂
Dinner Talk:
What pictures did you cut out for the tzedakah box?
What was your favorite part of the Pomegranate book?
How did the pomegranate taste?
Kitah Bet (3-4)
Teacher: Meirav Shahar
We read the Story “Sammy Spider’s First Rosh Hashanah” and talked about the different holiday symbols, such as – Shanaha Tovah cards, apples and honey, Shofar and round Challah.
Max showed everyone his beautiful Shofar.
We worked on the first two letters of the Hebrew alphabet- Aleph and Bet and also the first letter of the Hebrew word Rosh Hashanah- Resh. Ask your child what Hebrew words they know that starts with those letters.
We worked on recognition of Rosh Hashanah related Hebrew words.
We had honey tasting. We tasted 5 different flavors of honey- Clover, orange, buckwheat, wildflower and raspberry. The raspberry flavor was the favorite.
We had recess outside side and snack. We also had a special snack of brownie bites in honor of Agam’s birthday.
*If you would like to bring a special kosher treat on your child’s birthday to share with the class, that would be great, just please give me an advanced notice.
Dinner Talk:
What holiday symbols do you remember and what do they represent?
What Hebrew words you remember that start with the letters aleph, bet, and resh?
What was your favorite and least favorite flavor honey stick?
Kitah Gimel (5-6)
Teacher: Yosef Landy
Introduced the Rosh Hashana ritual of Tashlich
Created personal goals for the new year
Explored how these goals impact the relationships we have with one’s self, God, and other people
Reviewed the different shofar sounds, and the significance of the shofar sounds
Discussed the 13 Attributes of God – Why does God have many different names? How is God like a parent?
Rosh Hashana word scramble (community building activity)
Rosh Hashana Hangman
Dinner Talk:
What are some actions you want to “throw away” from last year?
What are some of your personal goals for the new year?
How is God like a parent?
Wednesday Teacher: Luisa Moss
Hebrew Assessment- Look alike letters, read the Thirteen Attributes of God, and read the Brachot L’Torah (Torah Blessings)
Shofar- We explored 4 different times the shofar is mentioned in the Torah- The giving of the Torah and Mount Sinai, announcing certain holidays, announcement of war, and celebration. We then explored the different emotions that the shofar evoked during those occurences and how hearing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah helps us achieve these emotions on Rosh Hashanah.
Dinner Talk:
When were some times the Torah mentions the shofar?
What kind of emotions did people have in the Bible to hearing the Shofar?
How can the shofar help us to achieve these emotions?
Shalom Atid Families!