Lesson Overviews for Parents – 12/8

Judaism Lesson Overview

	Topic	Overview
K		No Judaism lesson due to time constraints
1-2	What is a blessing?	The children create a blessings collage that illustrates the things that they are thankful to God for in their lives .
3	Getting Connected	Students will draw pictures of a time in their lives when they felt close to God and will identify appropriate times to say Shehecheyanu.
4	Finding Keva and Kavanah in the Shema	Analyze the themes of the Shema and V’havtah and will interpret the message of those themes in their own lives.
5-6	Finding Our Way to Sinai: The Torah Service	Students will learn about the different parts of the Torah Service and what they represent.
7	Birth & Death	The students explore Jewish ways of finding sacred connections to God during birth and death.
HS	The Rise of Antisemitism	The students will better understand why some Europeans resented and mistrusted Jews, identify ways that Jews responded to anti-Jewish prejudice, and describe similarities between Jewish history of antisemitism and modern day antisemitism.

K-3 Hebrew Lesson Overview

	Letter	Transliteration & Translation	Word of the Day	Transliteration & Translation	Lesson
K	ו	Vav	וֶרֶד	Vered (Rose)
1-2	י	Yud	יִשְׂרָאֵל	Yisrael (Israel)
3	ם	Final Mem	לְחַיִים	L’chaimTo Life	13

4-7 Hebrew Lesson Overview

	Prayer	Lesson
Mannaberg	Ein Keloheinu	Student’s joined Rabbi Spivak’s class which was learning the same lesson they were studying.
Schicker	V’ahavta	Lesson 1: understanding the words of V’ahavta through music
Spivak	Ein Keloheinu	Lesson 1: Students learned that Ein Keloheinu is an acrostic and spent time creating a drawing using the words of Ein Keloheinu in Hebrew.