Sukkot

9/21/2010

Dear Parents,

This week we started the unit of Sukkot.

Your child is bringing home a workbook with activities in it.

We learned so far about the Hebrew calendar and we’ve colored the days of the holidays.

We talked about a kosher sukkah and a non- kosher sukkah. What do we need in order to have a kosher one?  Ask your kids!

We got to know the 7 Ushpizin (guests) that coming to visit us in the sukkah on each night of sukkot.

We reviewed the names of the 4 species and we compared each one of them to our body parts:

Lulav= spine

Etrog= heart

Hadas= eye

Aravah= mouth

We also compared it to different kind of people by comparing the taste to people who learn Torah and smell to people who do Mitsvot (good deed)

We will be continuing to learn more about sukkot during “Hol Hamoed” (next week) with more workbook songs and Hebrew books from the Tal –Am unit.

Please look in the backpack, you will find a model sukkah we built and a project about 4 species.  You will also find a Mitzvah checklist in the back of the workbook.  Return it to school on Monday, and your child will get a reward!

Have a good Yom-Tov

Morah Irit