Jewish Values Curriculum for Grades 3 - 7

Teshuvah: Taking responsibility for your actions (September-October)

3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade 7th Grade Family Self Peers Community World - Connections between - The concept of Chet - Teshuvah - Text: Im ein ani li mi li - Jewish repentance Teshuva, apologizing, - The four steps of Teshuvah - Rosh Hashanah, Yom - Tashlich - Shofar forgiveness, and making - Tashlich Kippur Rituals - Heshbon hanefesh - The value of tzedek and mistakes - The concept of Mitzvot - Hachnasat orchim - Al Chet its relation to teshuvah - Ten Days of Awe - Sukkot: four species - Avraham & Sarah - Hineni - I’m here! - Text:Tzedek, tzedek, tirdof - Vidui - Hiddur Mitzvah - Tashlich & Vidui - Text: Wake up to teshuvah - Mitzvah portfolio: - Text: Jonah - Shofar Symbolism - Text: Pirkei Avot - Text: Na’aseh v’nishma teshuvah project - Text: Adam and Eve - Shema & V’ahavta - Yehi Ratzon Formula - Bereshit, Creation story - Text: Rabbi Abraham - Text: Proverbs 16:32 - Yetzer Tov & Yetzer Ra - Sukkot: Four Species and - Burning Bush Joshua Heschel - High Holidays in Israel inclusiveness - Akeidah SHALOMLEARNING INTERIM REPORT GRAPHIC SUMMARY B’Tzelem Elohim: Honoring the image of God in ourselves (October-November) OCTOBER 2016

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Gevurah: Using one’s inner and outer strength (November-December)

3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade 7th Grade Family Self Peers Community World - Strength as spiritual courage, - Joshua as a Leader - Story of Chanukah: - Text: David and Goliath - Gibbor as a hero willingness to take risks, - Pirkei Avot: Eizehu Gibor? Syrio Greeks & Hellenism - V’al Hanissim - Text: Deborah, a biblical standing up for others - Israeli Olympians - Hillel, Shammai, and - Text: Pirkei Avot - Who is hero - Chanukah and how it is - Talmud: Rabbi Akiva candle blessings strong? - Heroes of Israel: Shlomo celebrated in Israel - Mitzvot, strength from family - Bullying - Military Story of Chanukah Mula - The strength of the Jewish and our community - Text: Do not stand idly by - The symbolism of the - Israeli soldiers close-up People - Helping others through - Joseph & Reuven chanukiah - Jewish Partisans and - Anne Frank’s strength acts of gevurah - Theodore Herzl - Modern day aliyah Holocaust survivors - Sel essness and courage - Gevurah website building - Gevurah website building project and panel discussion project and panel discussion

Achrayut: Doing what you can to make the world a better place (January-February)

3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade 7th Grade Family Self Peers Community World - Looking out for one another - Tu Bishvat - Abraham Joshua Heschel - Tu Bishevat: Stewardship of - Individual vs. community needs - Text: The story of Joseph - Text: Love your neighbor & MLK Jr. the earth - Text: Ethical behavior as you love yourself towards animals - Personal Ten Commandments - Story of Reb. Zusya - Text: Caring for the natural - Heroes of Israel - Creating a food policy - Tikkun Olam - Text: Jeremiah & Amos – world - Shmirat hatevah - Tzedakah and wealth based on ethical treatment What is a prophet? - Text: Do not waste - Bal - Healthy body: Sh’mirat haguf distribution of animals - Clara Lemlich: Standing tashchit - Israel’s innovations making - Text: Pirkei Avot - You are - Kol Yisrael Aravaim ze la zeh a difference not obligated to complete the up for others - Text: Love your neighbor as - Tu Bishvat task, nor are free to desist - Story of Judah & Joseph yourself - Shmita: Let the land rest from it - Kibbutzim - Text: Returning a lost object - How to be an activist - Story: “Honi the Circle Maker” - Gilad Shalit - Mitzvah portfolio: advocacy - Hillel - Prayer for the State of Israel poster Jewish Values Curriculum for Grades 3 - 7

HaKarat HaTov: Seeking joy and being grateful (February-March)

3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade 7th Grade Family Self Peers Community World - Always seek good in others - Food brachot Derech Eretz - Tu Bishvat: environmental - First Fruits - Bikurim - Rabbi Akiva - All for the best! - Giving compliments - Text: Ten Commandments - awareness - Prayer: Birkat Hamazon - "gam zu le'tovah" - Text: Creation story – God You shall not covet - Judging favorably: seeing - Obligations to others as a - Sameach behelko and its the good in others saw that it was good! - Honoring our parents result of God taking us out relation to Hakarat hatov - Hakarat hatov and - Modeh Ani and being thankful - 4 Mitzvot of Purim of Egypt - The Gratitude Letter Project - Birchot Hashachar Happiness - Story: “David and the Spider” - Making your bar/bat mitzvah - Text: Pirkei Avot - Enjoy the - Shehecheyanu - Purim - Hakarat hatov and sacred express Hakarat hatov fruits of your labor - Purim - Jewish names for Jacob & Leah’s children - Ruth objects: Genizah - Kashrut - Prayer: Birkat Hamazon - Stories of Nachum Ish - Text: Talmud - “Say little and - Four Mitzvot of Purim - Purim Gamzu do much” - Birchot Hashachar

Koach HaDibbur: Understanding the power of words (March-April)

3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade 7th Grade Family Self Peers Community World - Choosing your words carefully - Text: Ful lling promises - Pesach: Four questions - Applying rules of lashon - Passover: We retell the story - Story: “A Pillow Full of Feathers” - Asking good questions - Elijah hara - Freedom of speech - Lashon Hara - Gossip and - Words and electronic media - Symbols of the seder plate - Written torah vs. oral torah - Moses and Korach: Speaking out rumors - The story of modern - Lashon hara: Hurtful Speech - Persuasive writing - Koach hadibbur and - Story of Moses and his speech Hebrew - Mishlei & Pirkei Avot sources - Passover Seder: V’hee She’Amda social media - Dr. Martin Luther King - The Four Questions - Changing our speech – - Exodus as a master story - It’s not just about speaking: - Body language - Dayeinu Elohai Netzor Being a good listener - King Solomon & - Theodore Hertzl - Anava: Humility - Chametz and matzah: - Text: Numbers 12 – Miriam’s Nachmanides afiction - Passover - Text: Pirkei Avot - Actions The chametz in our words - Parshat Metzorah – - Identifying negative speech speak louder than words - Words can create and Vayikra 14:1-15:33 words can destroy Jewish Values Curriculum for Grades 3 - 7

Shalom: Helping to create a calmer, more peaceful world (April-May)

3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade 7th Grade Family Self Peers Community World - Shalom: Hello, goodbye, - Bikur cholim - Havdallah - Text: Rodef Shalom - Shalom and shleimut. and Peace - Text: Eizer k’neada – - Yom Hazkiron & Yom (Pursue Peace) - Prayer for Peace: Sim Shalom helpmate - Shalom Bayit: Creating Ha’atzmaut - Text: Shalom Bayit (Peace - Concept: Save one person, - Jerusalem and Shalom - Holocaust and Israel as if you have saved the world. peace in the home - Shabbat as a path to in the home) - Shavout and Se rat Ha’omer - Text: Babylonian Talmud - Yom Ha’atzmaut wholeness and peace - Shavuot & the story of Ruth - Theodore Hertzl: The Sanhedrin 37a - Resolving con icts, mention - Chassidic story: “The Field - Israel technology of Brotherly Love” founding of the State of Israel - Aaron & the golden calf - Shavuot & the story of Ruth of Israel con ict - Hatikvah - Jchoice.org philanthropy - Text: The Temple - Review, wrap up and - Oseh Shalom - Shavuot: Ruth and Boaz project - Text: Shalom Aleichem & re ections - Text: Pirkei Avot - Hillel and Shalom Bayit - Jewish peacemakers - Review, wrap up, and Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel - Prayer: Birkat Habayit - Songs of Peace re ections

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