And we were there, from Exodus to Mount Sinai Click here to register for the 2011-2012 school year.
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Click here for the 2011-2012 Parent Handbook. Welcome to the 5771-5772 school year. .jpg) Shalom, Religious School families.
This year, we will focus on the heart and soul of the Jewish people, from Exodus to Mount Sinai. We will learn the stories about when we were created as a people, one nation—a holy nation—and a kingdom of priests. Our stories are life’s lessons that teach us many things. We will discuss what we can learn from them today. We will see how the Exodus story and Mount Sinai ARE a call to every generation to learn, grow, and act Jewishly. We will celebrate freedom from prejudice, intolerance, and injustice, and we will understand the potential that we all have within us to learn to believe in ourselves and learn the beautiful truth in our past and our traditions. Ultimately, we all will realize, as one community, that having freedom doesn’t mean that you do nothing. To be free means to have a purpose—to spread the idea of God‘s morality, goodness, and charity, and to strive for greatness, both personally and Jewishly. This year will be exciting! The first day of Religious School is August 21, 2011 This is not to be missed!
| 9:30 - 10:00 | | Students in classrooms
Parents in Gathering Area for registration, coffee, and cake. Visit our amazing Chai curriculum center (displayed by grade). | | 10:10 - 10:30 | | Parents and students join together in the Sanctuary for the opening ceremony. | | 10:30 - 11:00 | | Everyone in the Great Hall to celebrate the theme for this year: "And we were there, from Exodus to Mount Sinai." | | 11:10 - 11:30 | | Parents and students in classrooms for orientation with teachers | | 11:40 - 12:00 | | Students in classrooms
Parent in the Great Hall (Brunch and Q&A with Ilana and the Rabbi) |
| | The Children of the Beth-El Religious School 2010-2011 The following things will occur this year: - We will continue the Hebrew program Mitkadem, which means “to progress.” It offers individualized learning, as well as group instruction, that readies our children for their Bar or Bat Mitzvahs.
- This will be the second year of our new Religious School curriculum “Chai.” Our teachers love using it with their classes, and the students have a wonderfully creative time learning Torah, commentary from the Talmud and Midrash, and so much more. This year, we will evaluate the curriculum to make sure that it continues to fit the needs of our students and our school.
- Every Sunday morning, we will have thirty minutes of T’fillah.
- The Beth-El Youth Choir for children in third through sixth grades will continue.
- The Midrasha program (8th - 9th grades) is continuing with Tikkun olam projects and a new course called “Living Up To Your Potential Personally and Jewishly. This program forces the students to ask, “Who am I?” They will focus on understanding and accepting their Jewish identity and the people whom they are becoming. It also includes an enrichment program with a wide range of vibrant learning experiences to creatively and personally connect Judaism with teens. They will also take field trips and have art, drama, and cooking classes.
- B’nai Mitzvah students will be T’fillah leaders before their Bar or Bat Mitzvahs and will be heavily engaged with Tikkun olam projects.
- The tremendous responsibility of raising a generation of children to love Jewish learning and to lead a Jewish life must be accomplished with enthusiastic and dedicated teachers, parents, and community members.
- Thank you all for sharing this responsibility with me.
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