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Hebrew
- Rabbi Weber
On Tuesday, Feb. 6 teaching was a bit of a challenge as (out of 8 students in the class) one was absent, one arrived at 5:10, and two others left early at 5:20 and 5:30 respectively. If you child is ill, by all means, better she or he stay home. As the TV character "Barney" used to say, "Sharing is Caring," but when it comes to communicable diseases it isn't.
I do recognize that kids have all sorts of stuff going on in their lives. Still, please do keep in mind that we only have formal classes once per week and that the service at the end of the session is a critical part of the education program.
On Tuesday we had a short quiz on the six new vocabulary words which revealed who had and who had not done the homework, which was to start learning these words. Papers will be returned next week. I did return graded tests from last week to those who were present at the end of class.
We began learning "v'ahavta." In order to give everyone even more opportunity for personal attention, we split the class, with Samantha teaching the two girls present and I worked with the four boys. We learned to act out some of the words in the prayer ("your heart, your soul," etc.) making up sign language to express them. I showed all the students the inside of a mezuzah, which contains this prayer and we discussed who had mezzuzot at home.
BTW, if you do not have a mezzuzah on your doors at home, especially the main entrances, we can easily arrange to correct the situation. Just ask.
For homework:
TEXTBOOK Please complete through p 36, including a review of the practice reading passages.
WORKBOOK pages 22,23 and 24
Note that the workbook is now getting into some of the little reading tricks. We will be spending a decent amount of class time on this.
No Junior Cong. this week as Jessica and I will be out of town for Shabbat. We will be back in time for Sunday evening teen groups.
Shabat Shalom
Rabbi DW
History/Bible
- Nancy Garfinkel
Hi Everyone,
Today we covered the chapter on how King Saul was chosen as the King of the Israelites. He was anointed by the prophet Samuel. Samuel was told by God to give the people of Israel the king that they were asking for and Saul was the one who was chosen for the job.
The discussion in the text on page 55 describes different types of governments. This became the focus of our discussion today. We spoke about the types of governments presented in the book and then tried to find examples in real life (modern and ancient times) of those types of governments. The United States is a democracy. There are parliamentary democracies; examples of this are Australia, Canada and England. England also has a constitutional monarchy with its parliamentary democracy (a queen and a parliament with two houses - similar to our system of Congress and the Senate) as does Japan. There are absolute monarchies such as in Saudi Arabia. A theocracy is a government run by a religious group or a religion, such as the Vatican, Iraq and Iran. An autocracy is a government run by an individual such as a dictator who has complete power over the running of the country.
I was very pleased to see that everyone came up with contributions to this discussion. Nice job everyone. : )
For homework this week:
Please complete the word search puzzle I gave out in class today. Please also answer all of the questions on page 54 and 55.
Good class this week. Thank you all. See you next Tuesday.
Mrs. Garfinkel