second grade judaic letter/ nov. 30

B”H

                                MORAH ROBIN’S JUDAIC NEWSLETTER/ NOV. 29^TH

We had another busy week in Kita Bet. I was out sick on Monday, but we still got a lot done in our Judaic class. In Chumash we continued our Noach packet and learned the words,” Lehashcheet” ( to destroy) and “chamas” ( bad deeds) while reading the new psukim on p. 3 of our packet. We learned that because of so many bad deeds ( it says the world was ‘full of them” vatimalei ha’aretz chamas),  people were actually destroying the world, so Hashem decided to destroy it with a flood ( mabul). However, Hashem saw that there was one man, Noach, who was a real tzaddik “ ish tzaddik tamim hayah” and Hashem would save Noach and his family. That is where we are right now in the story. We also looked for related words in the word families of : “lehashcheet” ( shin, chet, tav) in these psukim and highlighted them. Now we know when reading these psukim ( on p.3) that these words with those letters are related to the meaning of “to destroy.” This helps us become a good “Chumash balash” ( Chumash detective). We also highlighted the word: “chamas”  to remind us that it means: bad deeds. Next week we will learn about a special mitzvah also related to this word family called: “ Bal Tashcheet” which means not to destroy, but I will leave that for the next newsletter.

In Chanuka we continued our Chanuka story packet and our children are proving to be excellent illustrators. The completed story and dinim (law) packets will be sent home during Chanuka .

We are very busy practicing for our Chanuka play and that is why this week we did not do much on the Techiliot ( prefix) topic, but will resume it next week. The hw in the workbook can be done over the weekend and returned on Monday, please. It is p. 51 and reviews the different prefixes. P. 34 can be used as reference. Please make sure, however, that it does come back to school on Monday, since we will be doing more review and then I will schedule a short test on these prefixes, probably next Wed. I will write it in next week’s weekly assignment sheet .  Back to our play, please make sure your child knows his/her lines by heart by Monday. No scripts will be allowed in rehearsals anymore. We need to start practicing with our props. So far the children are doing an excellent job and you are in for a treat on the 12 of Dec. B”H !

We are still short about 11 shoeboxes, so if you have not yet sent in one, please do so. The best size is regular adult, if you have it.

Today your child will bring home another D’var Torah to share with you. Please encourage them to do so and return signed so I know they did.

Thank you for your ongoing cooperation!

Shabbat Shalom,

Morah Robin and Morah Malca