Where has all the time gone? It seems like just last week that the Shorashaim were getting to know each other and learning about Rosh Hashanah, and now we’re going off into the summer?
Our final unit of the year was Talmud Torah; the study of Torah. We learned about what a [...]
We can’t believe that this year has come to an end! We have had a great year in the Nitzanim class! This past month we started learning about Talmud Torah, studying Torah. The students got to learn stories from the Torah. They also got to see a real Torah and thoroughly enjoyed [...]
Our final unit, truly, was a fitting end to the year. Talmud Torah, the value of learning Torah and about our heritage, provided a cap to all of our year’s learning. We explored the actual components of the Torah: Tanach, the Jewish Bible, and all of its component books – as [...]
With only a few weeks left to school, the Anafim class has taken things to the next level. We’ve spent a lot of time these past few lessons exploring the land of Israel- through discussions, lessons, and games of course. With the help of a Risk board we traveled through history, [...]
In this unit the Shorashim children had the opportunity to explore Israel- the land, it’s people and the modern state that celebrated it’s birthday of 62 a few weeks ago.
We began with Israel- The Land. We introduced the children to the story of Abraham, the father of the Jewish people and [...]
This month has flown by so fast in our Nitzanim classroom. We started off the month celebrating Pesach, Passover, with our respective families and enjoyed sharing our experiences with our classmates. Now that Pesach was over, we got the chance to start learning about Israel! The first part of our unit [...]
We are free! Pesach is here and – having learned that each of us should feel like we, ourselves, left Egypt – we couldn’t be happier to be experiencing Ge’ulah (redemption). Over the course of this month, Ge’ulah has been our focus. We began by learning all about the details of [...]
As we’ve all been entering spring in the month of March, the Shorashim have been preparing for Pesach at JCP. The number four abounds in the holiday of Passover; 4 cups of wine, 4 questions, the 4 children we read about in the seder. Another 4 is the different names [...]
In preparation for Passover, Nitzahim learned about some of the ethics, values, rituals, and traditions related to the holiday. This educational unit was divided into three sections – The first and second units focused on the concepts of Geula (redemption) and Cherut (freedom), and how they are portrayed in the story of Passover. During this [...]
Although the snow days we had were a slight (and cold!) distraction this month, nothing got in the way of our learning!
We finished up our unit on Gemilut Chasadim and introduced the new concept of Tzar Ba’alei Chayim- treating creatures with respect. We discussed what it was like to empathize with animals, and debated the [...]
