Tuesday, 12/8/15 summary

The students continue to make excellent progress in Hebrew. Some have finished Ramah 1 and are starting to read basic Hebrew words in Ramah 2, the rest are almost ready to begin Ramah 2. Everyone has a good grasp of the Hebrew consonants and are beginning to learn the vowels. We have some tricks to help remember them!

At the end of class, we all gathered in the youth lounge to light the Hanukkah candles and sing the blessings. It was a beautiful sight. Then the children played dreidel with chocolate gelt.

Sunday is our Hanukkah Hoe Down for students and families--hope to see you all there!

Morah Debbie

Sunday, 12/6 Family Ed. summary

Today was a day of learning, having fun, creating Hanukkah lanterns, doing a mitzvah, and eating! We had almost perfect attendance today in the third grade, and I enjoyed seeing so many of you. I'm sorry I couldn't experience all the stations with you, but I was in charge of the glue gun and helping to assemble the beautiful lanterns the students made.

I'd like to send out a special thank you to some very helpful and talented madrichim who helped us in the art activity today: Rebecca Rooks, Jade Leong, and Molly German who stapled all the lanterns together, and Camille Szottfried who accompanied the third graders to each activity. Couldn't have done it without you girls!!!

Coming up: the school will be lighting the hanukkiyah on Tuesday during religious school, and then we have a Hanukkah Hoe Down next Sunday.

Happy first night of Hanukkah tonight,

Morah Debbie