Grade 7 (Kitah Zayin)
Morah (Teacher):
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Children age twelve to thirteen, The B'nai Mitzvah Class, meet for two hours on Thursday for classroom instruction and on Sunday for individual tutoring. Subjects include: Hebrew Prayer, Jewish Historical Figures, Conversational Hebrew, and Values and Ethics. Our Grade 7 study program includes Jewish Heroes, Jewish Values, a textbook that introduces noteworthy Jewish personalities and their contributions to society, along with the Jewish value that they teach us. The class participates in dynamic class activities that draw them into learning. The students will learn to read / chant the Ashrei, Aleinu and Kaddish prayers and learn their meanings. Every Thursday ends with a Shabbat service where the whole school joins in a joyous prayer ceremony.
Grade 7 Class Notes
January 6, 2012
Shalom parents!
It was great to see all the students back yesterday. We are now focused on preparing for the Grade 3-7 Shabbat service and lunch on January 28. Please mark your calendars! We discovered the class is quite rusty on Yotzer Or, and so I sent a copy home for them to practice it, in addition to Mourner’s Kaddish. I would much appreciate an occasional parent reminder to do this, as we have only about three weeks to prepare.
This week, in addition to our Hebrew, we read in our Jewish Heroes Jewish Values book about Tzionism and Golda Meir. I am attaching the concepts below, though we have not yet completed the chapter, they should know most of them. We played a new game that the class really seemed to enjoy. It was a charades type of game where one student acted out a vocabulary root word, and the class had to guess what word and come up with the Hebrew root letters. For example, one student had the word bless, and acted out lighting the Shabbat candles, and the students had to remember bet, resh, and chaf, the three root letters from baruch. These were the same word list we have worked in flash card style on and off all year.
I always welcome any questions about our class, or concerns you wish to share about your child.
Beverly
Tzionut/Golda Meir Concepts
- Tzionut is the mitzvah of Zionism, which is supporting Israel.
- Tzion/Zion is an ancient name for the land of Israel.
- Golda Meir was born in Russia in 1898, a time of great ant-Semitism there, so at the age of eight, her family immigrated to the United States.
- Golda Meir developed a passion for Zionism as a teenager and she and her husband immigrated to Palestine in 1921. She would go on to serve in several important positions in the labor movement.
- In 1948, 3 million Jews lived in Russia, where Communist laws prevented them from observing their religion. Meir served as Israel’s minister to the Soviet Union, and offered the Jewish community there hope and planted the seeds for the later emigration of hundreds of thousands of Jews.
- Golda Meir eventually served as Israel’s prime minister and was one of the most beloved figures in world politics.
