What happened on Sunday! (10/23/11)

Kindergarten
Our focus today was the concept of “Love your neighbor as yourself." We drew pictures to put up on the bulletin board of ways we can treat friends (neighbors) in the same manner that we would like to be treated in. We learned about Rabbi Hillel and learning Torah while standing on one foot!
First grade
Today’s class focused on Genesis chapter 1 and 2 – The stories of Creation. We learned that God created in an order and the process of Creation ends with Shabbat: a celebration of that Creation. The second story teaches us that we must take care of the world. God created Adam and Eve to help each other. We made a chart of the creation process and we made a tree with the name of the people who help us.
Second Grade - Mr. Levy 
Today we made edible Torahs and learned the Hebrew letters Resh and Chaf.
Second Grade - Mrs. Rodriguez
We learn how to say my name is in Hebrew. We had recess and played Masoret. 
3rd grade
In Hebrew we reviewed our third vowel sound—the E vowel.  We also learned a new letter, Dalet, and started to learn about the silent vowel.  After music, the class was split into two teams, Beersheva and Sde Boker, two important places in the Negev desert.  They learned about an important person connected to the place and a little about why people visit there before presenting about the place to the class!
4th grade Hebrew
We learned vav and vet and mitzvah (commandment) and Havdalah (separation). We played a game with all of our Hebrew key words and we learned about the Havdalah ceremony.
4th grade Judaic Studies
We created a diary for Adam or Eve and discussed if we would like to forever live in the garden of Eden or venture into the world. 
5th grade
In Hebrew we continued to work on the Yotzer Or (thanks to Seth, our sub). In Judaic Studies we continued our discussion of Hachnasat orchim. After brief review, we read the story of “Joshua sends spies to Canaan.” When we completed the story, we compared Rahav with other characters who exemplify the values of Hachnasat orchim, like Abraham, Boaz, and Ruth. We finished the day looking at the children's story written by Gilad Shalit when he was 11.

6th grade

Today we had our first Yachdav class. This is the program partnering us with a school in Israel. This session was made up of two stages: a game and a trigger poem entitled “That kid is me" by Yehuda Atlas. After the reading we discussed what things you need to find out in order to know somebody. Each student wrote facts that make him or her special. We also had our first Jewish Lens class with Candice Maze and talked about objective and subjective interpretations of photographs!