Lesson Overviews for Parents 2/16

	Topic	Overview
K	Kindness	Kindness is a choice, something that you can decide to do. It’s easy to practice kindness every day.
1-2	G’milut Chasadim	Identify Acts of G’Milut Chasadim and Tzedakah.
3	G’milut Chasadim: taking responsibility	This is an introduction to g’milut chasadim and what acts of loving kindness mean in regards to Judaism
4	G’milut chasidim 1	Making peace amongst your friends
5-6	Finding God in Our World through Acts of G’milut Chasadim.	Connecting Jewish texts to world issues as the foundation for the rest of our studies this year about G’milut Chasadim (acts of loving kindness).
7	Shema, “doing and listening”	Using the text, the students will talk about their reaction to the Jewish value of behaving a certain way, whether or not we feel like it
HS	How the Torah Apply to My Life Today?	The students will critically ask questions, read Torah, and research modern day current events to better understand “Are biblical texts relevant to our world today? Why or why not?”

	Letter	Transliteration & Translation	Word of the Day	Transliteration & Translation	Lesson
K	ח	Chet	חַלָּה	Challah
1-2	פ	Fey
3	ץ tsereh	Final tsadee	עֵץ חַיִים	Eitz Chaim (Tree of Life)	19

	Prayer	Lesson
Mannaberg	Shema	The Oneness of God. The uniqueness of God. Making connections with your people.
Schicker	Mi Chamocha lesson 3	Using different tunes and interpretations will help the students learn how to make prayer a new song (shirah hadashah), every time it is said.
Spivak	Hotza’at HaTorah	The Torah service is like a reenactment of the giving of the Ten Commandments to the Israelites at Sinai