Newsletter Aug 24

  Morah Aronowitz’s Judaic Newsletter

4 Elul 5772/Aug 24 2012

We have had a great start to the year. We have all been really busy learning all about what we do in our school and in our classroom. We are learning what to do when we arrive at school in the morning, what we do when we come into my classroom, how to line up in the hallway and lots more.  Parents, if you could please help your child learn the following procedures by discussing them with your child that would be very helpful. 1) We first put our backpacks away (KB-Morah Aronowitz, KA-Morah Rachel) 2) we take out our apple and frog folders from our back pack and we put them away in the right places. 3) We take out our mitzvah notes from the ziplock bag and put it in the blue basket. 4) We put up our picture for attendance 5) we take out out money for tzedakah 6) we go and sit down and get ready for davening. I know this is a lot but in no time they will know it perfectly.

Some of the fun things we did this week :

1)      We learned how to recognize and write our Hebrew names. We played lots of games like hot and cold, and the children had to identify their Hebrew name. We wrote our name with cheerios and then got to eat them. We practiced connecting our name with dots.

2)      We worked really hard on a “get to know me” packet, where each child drew a picture of his family and a picture in his favorite color, colored in his favorite foods and lots more.  On Thursday and today we got to present our packet to the class.

3)      Moreh Dror has been coming in every morning to blow the shofar. We are learning the different sounds of the Shofar.

Some friendly reminders

-         - Please send Tzedakah money with your child. They will keep it in their cubbies and take out one penny a day.

-          -Please use the shofar cut outs on which to write the mitzvah notes and put them in the ziplock bag provided in  the apple folder.

We are looking forward to a great year!!!!

Have a great Shabbat

Morah Aronwitz and Morah Naomi

First Week Of School Aug 20

Newsletter for the first day of school

August 20, 2012

Dear Parents,

We had a fabulous first day of school, and I am looking forward to continuing the school year with your children.  We had a lot of fun activities today; we played some getting to know you games, and we made a project (which is hanging up in our hallway). We also started working on a “getting to know me” book that we are each going to present to the class at the end of the week.

We spoke about Mitzvah notes today in class and about how important it is to do lots of mitzvoth before Rosh Hashana. I sent home some blank mitzvah notes for you to fill out. Please cut them out and send them to school with your children in the ziplock bag provided for them in their folder, and I will read them out loud to the class after davening.

We had a special assembly where we got to meet our senior buddies, and we each received our very own cap. Then we ate lunch and had recess together with our senior buddies.

Just a few notes:

1-    Please provide your children with 1 or 2 snacks a day for recess. Please only send nut free snacks as some of the children in our school have nut allergies.

2-    Please send a few rolls of pennies for Tzedakah (the children will keep them in their cubbies.)

3-    There is note paper in your child’s folder; if you have any questions or concerns throughout the year, or any other comment you would like to share about your child please feel free to do so.

Thank you so much and all the best,

Morah Aronowitz and Morah Naomi