Kitah Bet Assignments, Week of May 15, 2007 (Due May 29)

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Hebrew - Rabbi Weber

We had an odd attendance day on Tuesday. Due to baseball, Tom Cohen taught Katie, Noah, Jacob and Henry from 3:30-4:00 PM, Joshua was absent and I taught Eric, Aliya and Julia during our normal time.

Both groups finished chapter 5 of the textbook, (through page 50.) All exercises should have been (thoughtfully) done.

HW:
1. If you have not done so, finish all the pages in the textbook through page 50.

2. Do the workbook exercises on pages 31 and 32.

3. Study for a quiz in two weeks. Material covered will be:

A. Vocabulary for "mi kamocha," (six words on page 43.)
B. Identifying the roots, koof-dalet-shin (see page 47) and mem-lamed-khaf (see page 46.)
C. Recognizing that "hey" before a word often means, "the," that "b" before a word means "in" and that combined, "bah" means "in the." This is explained on page 49.

No school next week as Tuesday night is Shavuot. Blintze dinner at 7 followed by Erev Shavuot service at 8:00 PM. Though morning services are long, the evening service is really quite brief, 40 muinutes or less. Shavuot is one of the big holidays and it would be good if all the kids were here.

There are only three more Hebrew School sessions for this year: May 26, June 5 and 12. Let's keep up the energy and end on a good note.

Rabbi DW

History/Bible - Nancy Garfinkel

This week we read the story of how David is made the King of Israel and unites the country.  the story also tells of how Jerusalem is chosen as the capital of Israel.  We also discussed the concept of a Fortification or Fortified city.  Jerusalem is such a city, it is essentially a fort with it's citizens living within it's confines.  In order for the citizens to have access to travel outside of the city and for people to come into the city, the walls around the city need to have openings or gates.  The gates in the wall around Jerusalem are famous and each has its own name and history.  After we finished the story in the text book, I read parts of an article in the current issue of Babaganewz that discusses the gates.  It is written as if the gates are speaking and it describes how each gate was named and a brief history.  This was all very interesting especially in light of the fact that Tuesday and Wednesday of this week was Yom Yerushalayim - Jerusalem Day, celebrating Jerusalem.
 
For homework this week:
Please do the exercises in the textbook on pages 74 & 75.
 
Then please go to the following website: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/geo/gates.html
and choose two of the gates that are in the wall surrounding Jerusalem and write a couple of sentences describing how the gate got its name and where the gate leads to in the city.
 
Please remember there is no Hebrew school on May 22 (this coming Tuesday).  Class is scheduled to be held on Tuesday, May 29.

 See you then,
Mrs. Garfinkel

Enrichment:
Parents: Direct students to www.behrmanhouse.com where they can practice their Hebrew decoding with “Click and Read Hebrew at Home” (the orange button) and drill prayer reading with “Click and Learn Prayer at Home” (the hot pink button). It’s also an ideal way for parents to practice along with their children.

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