שמחת תורה 2016

Dear Parents,

This week we completed the unit of Sukkot.

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

Calendar: We continued to develop and work on our Hebrew calendar skills.  We spent time locating Sukkot, Chol Hamoed and the last two days of Yom Tov on the calendar.

     4 species:

     We reviewed the names of the 4 species.

We compared each one of the 4 species. 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)

A kosher Sukkah:

     Moreh Dror discussed with us what can make a Sukkah kosher or not kosher. We saw many kind of sukkot build by the high school students.

(Make sure to ask your child!)

Look at the pictures on the back of this page.

Sukkot activitys:

-Today  we participated in 2 sukkot activities that was led by 4^th and 6^th grade it was great!

Look at the pictures on the back of this page.

“Degel” (flag):

We are very excited to finish reading the entire torah on Simchat Torah and then start reading it all over again. We are ready to dance and have a real Simcha (joy) with our “Degel” (flag) that we made for the special event.

Look at the back of this page to see how we danced with our own “Degel”.  Please remember to take it with you to the Bet-Keneset- Synagogue).)

חג שמח    !

Happy Holiday.