Third grade celebrates high holidays!
Third grader have received their siddurim and celebrated Yom Kippur!
Announcements
Sukkot Potluck & Welcome for Tehilah Eisenstadt, 10/13, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Get to know our new Director of Yachad & Family Engagement, Tehilah Eisenstadt, while decorating the CBE Sukkah and sharing a delicious potluck meal together! We kindly ask all in attendance to contribute a dish. Please bring only items that are pareve or dairy, vegetarian, or have fish (no meat). RSVP Now
Upcoming Closures:
We are closed on Monday 10/14 for the first day of Sukkot/Indigenous Peoples’ Day (Columbus Day) and Monday 10/21 for Simchat Torah.
Jewish Studies
It was so wonderful to see so many of you at our siddur ceremony the other week. This week, many students who had not yet received their siddur got to use it for the first time in services, and we had a special ceremony in class celebrating receiving their own siddur. Students learned the shehecheyanu, and discussed when they might use a prayer that honors their first time doing something. Students suggested that they could say the shehecheyanu when they met someone new, when they wore adult-sized shoes for the first time, or when they joined a new sports team at school.
In preparation for Yom Kippur, students also made Books of Life. In those, they wrote the names of people who they had good wishes for in the coming year, and also wrote some of their wishes for the world for the year. They then decorated them beautifully, and truly, may all Books of Life be as lovely as the ones these third graders made.
Some questions to ask your children:
1) Who were some of the people you sent good wishes to, in your Books of Life?
2) When could our family say a shehecheyanu all together?
Hebrew
In Hebrew, students have been working on the verbs to run, to jump, to spin, and to point at. They added the verb “to put” to their vocabulary, and the prepositions “to” and “on.” They also started adding words for parts of the body, like head, leg, and eye, and hand.
Pictures!
Students really enjoyed getting to make their own Books of Life! Here are just a few examples of the fabulous work that they did:
