sixth grade update for March 17th

B"H

Shalom Sixth Grade Parents,

We had a very busy week in Kita Vav. In Halacha ( laws) we completed the laws of Pesach and on Monday we will start learning from the Haggada companion that I prepared for the students. We will have our dinim test on Pesach this coming Thursday. The students will be bringing home their new Haggada companions this Thursday. I hope they will use them to enhance your seders. On Friday we will have our own "model" seder filled with fun activities.

In Chumash we are near completing Parshat VaEra. We have been learning different Rashi's and completed makat Arov ( wild animals ) this week. The students will have a quiz on Rashi vocabulary this week Wed.

In Mishna: the students were tested on perek aleph in Masechet Avot. After Pesach we will begin a new perek from Masechet Brachot.

In Navi: We completed perek 12 and learned about the war of Shaul and Amon. We will continue with the wars of King Shaul and his son Yonatan in perek 13 in Sefer Shmuel.

In Parsha: please return the D'var Torah signed if your child shared it with you.

Thank you and wishing you a very happy and Kosher Pesach!

Rabbi Elbaz

fourth grade update for March 17th

B"H

Shalom Fourth Grade Parents,

We had a busy week in Kita Daled. In Halacha (laws) we completed our Pesach packet and on Monday the students will get review work for their homework on Pesach. We will also begin our Haggadah companions which I prepared for them. On Thursday the students will have their Pesach test. This Friday we will have a "model" seder which will be full of activities about Pesach. On Thursday your child will bring his/her Haggadah companion home to be used at your seders. I hope they will help to enrich the beautiful experience of Pesach.

In Chumash: We began perek 31 psukim 1-8 and are learning about Yaakov continuing to plan his journey to Eretz Canaan. The students learned Rashi on psukim 3 and 4 and this week we will continue to work on psukim 8-13 with emphasis on accuracy of reading from Rashi and expanding our Chumash vocabulary.

In Navi: we are still working on our Yericho project and on comics for Sefer Yehoshua. This week we will continue learning about Bnei Yisrael's conquest of Ay and the punishment for taking from the spoils of war.

Please return the parsha sheet signed if your child shared this week's D'var Torah with you.

I want to wish you all a very happy and Kosher Pesach!

Rabbi Elbaz

Fourth Grade Judaic update for March 10th

B"H

Shalom U'vracha Fourth Grade Parents,

We had a busy week in Kita Daled. In Chumash we completed perek 30 and will begin the last perek in Parshat Vayeitzei this week. The students had a vocabulary quiz and deepened their comprehension of the Biblical text. On Thursday before Pesach break we will have a test on chapters 30 and 31. This week's homework will focus on psukim from Rashi.

In Navi we completed perek vav (6) about the conquest of Yericho and will continue with the conquest of Ai and the sin of Achan who took from the spoils of war. The students are working on a computer project about Yericho and in class on a comics project.

In Halacha ( laws) we began our study of the laws of Pesach. The student got a Pesach packet I prepared for them including a special Haggada "companion" that we will learn and later they can use to enrich your seders.

I returned the Purim tests and I hope your child shared his/her achievements with you. We will have a test on Pesach before the break, tba.

Parsha: Please sign your child's parsha sheet if it was shared with you and return to me.

Thank you and Shavua Tov!

Rabbi Elbaz

Judaic newsletter for Sixth grade March 10th

B"H

Shalom U'vracha Sixth Grade Parents,

We had a busy week in Kita Vav.In Chumash the students were tested on prakim 7 and 8: the beginning of the makot ( plagues). We will continue this week with the makot of frogs, lice and wild animals. As usual we worked on our Chumash vocabulary, understanding Rashi and accurate reading from the Chumash text.

In Navi we completed prakim 11 and 12 and will continue in the next prakim ( chapters) to learn about the wars of King Shaul ( Saul), his sin in the war against Amalek and the selection of David as next king of Israel. The students will be working on a new "film "project on one of the topics in Navi.

In Mishna we completed perek aleph in Masechet Avot . This Thursday there will be a test and the students will receive a guideline for review..

In Halacha we began our study of the laws of Pesach in the new packets I gave out. We are almost done with the first packet which covers the laws up till Pesach and will continue with our own Hagada packets that we will work on till our model seder. There will be a test on the laws TBA before Pesach break.

Parsha: Please sign and return the parsha sheet if your child shared this week's D'var Torah with you.

Thank you and Shavua Tov!

Rabbi Elbaz