Third grade: Sukkot special!
Third grade celebrated Sukkot this week!
Announcements
We are closed on Monday 10/21 for Simchat Torah but please join us during the evening from 5:30 – 7pm for Simchat Torah dinner, get-to-know-each-other, dancing, sweet Simchat Torah treats and gifts of small Torahs from returning CBE and Yachad families, to our new Yachad families. We hope to see you there! Please RSVP so that we can plan for adequate food and supplies by emailing Juliane McManus, jmcmanus@cbebk.org.
2. Back to School Night, Tuesday Oct 29, 7-9pm
Mark your calendars for our K- 7th grade Back to School night! During the evening you will have a chance to meet with your child’s teacher or grade coordinator, get an overview of the year’s curriculum and shmooze with other parents/caregivers. Looking forward to connecting!
Jewish Studies
This week, we learned about Sukkot! We talked about celebrating the harvest, and students got to make their own harvest crops out of paper or shrinky dinks to hang in the sukkah. We also visited the sukkah (unless it was raining), where students got to hang their decorations up, learned the prayers for sukkot, and got to smell the etrog and shake the lulav. We also played a Sukkot game where students acted out which parts of their body the four species represent – their spine, their eyes, their mouth, and their heart.
We also celebrated many students getting to use their siddurim in t’filah for the first time!
Some questions to ask your children:
1) What are the four plant species of Sukkot and what parts of the body do they represent?
2) Why do you think we shake the lulav?
Hebrew
In Hebrew this week, students learned some Sukkot vocabulary. They learned the four plant species of Sukkot – the lulav, etrog, aravah, and hadass.
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