Sharyn Blaustein Volume 22 Principal Issue 15 February 12, 2016 Adar1 3, 5776 Yamin Levy THE VOICE OF OUR CHILDREN LIHA Rabbi A WEEKLY PUBLICATION

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Parashat Message from Rabbi Yamin Levy, LIHA Rabbi

This week’s Perasha opens with a fundraising It is not only absolutely impossible to build a capital campaign to build a house for G-d. The home for G-d it is also unnecessary. Hashem is entire enterprise is fraught with questions. How everywhere and can be accessed anywhere - in can anyone build a house for G-d? G-d is a city slum or in a palace lined with marble and infinite – too big too great for a house! King . alluded to the same issue when he The answer to this paradox is actually found in wrote “But will G-d really dwell on earth? The the first chapter of this week’s Perasha. heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot Hashem does not need or live in a building. contain You. How much less this house I have Hashem lives in the BUILDERS. Hashem does built!” (1 Kings 8:27). Isaiah the Prophet also not dwell in a structure of stone but rather wondered when he said: “Heaven is [G-d’s] Hashem is ever present in the human heart. As throne and earth [His] footstool. What house the Pasuk says so beautifully: “Let them build can you build for me? Where will my resting for me a sanctuary that I may dwell in THEM” place be? (Isaiah 66:1) (Exodus 25:8) In Them not in it.

Parashat Terumah Candle Lighting time is at 5:11 p.m. Havdalah time is at 6:17 p.m.

The Week Ahead LIHA Registration forms for

th th 2016-2017 School year have February 15 & 16 School closed in observance been sent home & are also on our website. The families Of President’s Day who apply for scholarships need to apply on the

SSS website before the deadline.

To the following students for excelling on their 2015 NYS ELA & Math exams. We are proud of all of our student’s achievements. We attained the same ranking as Great Neck School District and look forward to continued success for 2016.

English Language Arts

4thGrade 5th Grade

Coby Kalimian Ornella Amsellem

Shira Bootehsaz ART IS FUN

Math

4thGrade 5th Grade Coby Kalimian Michael Ghodsi Joshua Partovi Kyleen Kalimian Eitan Mastour Ornella Amsellem Daniella Azzizadeh Shira Bootehsaz Soumikh

Mr. & Mrs. Take A Look At LIHA The following Marc Dorwitt parents have for ’s donated a book Toddler birthday to the LIHA Mr. & Mrs. The toddlers learned about colors. Library in honor Ashir Pirouzian We read a new book, “Yellow Hat, Red Hat” of their for Yael’s birthday children’s birthday… Mr. David Soleimani & Ms. Shula Ograd for Jordana’s birthday Nursery

This week the children were very excited to decorate and design challah covers that will go into each child’s Shabbat Box. Each challah cover is a true work of art and was made with a great deal of love. Each week our class practices cutting with scissors, reviews the English and Hebrew alphabet and plays “Colors & Shapes Bingo”. Our Shabbat Ima & Abba were Eliana T & Jake

Pre K

Firefighters are the community helper we focused on this week. We painted our very own firefighter hats and collaged red, yellow and orange tissue paper to make fire. We also took various shapes to create our own fire engines. We reviewed fire safety, including “stop drop and roll”. The English letter this week was Nn. We used fun shaped scissors to cut up Newspaper and glued them down. The Hebrew letter was - mem. We looked at the inside of a real Mezuza and saw the words of Shema written on the special Claf. We will be learning about doctors and dentists for the next 2-3 weeks if anyone would like to come in to present to the class.

Kindergarten English

We talked a lot about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and even saw some videos on the Smart board. We worked on the question, what can we learn from our adventures as we read, “Roosters Off to See the World”? The children even learned the word horizon. The children know that for example when you go on a trip you need to be prepared. We are working on subtraction and doing very nicely. Have a wonderful President's weekend and Shabbat Shalom!

Kindergarten Hebrew In this week's Parasha "Teruma" we learned that Hashem said to Moshe, Bnei Yisrael must make me a "Mishkan" (holy tent). Bnei Yisrael should also make a Shulchan, Menorah and a Mizbaiach too! They had to use a lot of gold in building these things.

In addition, we learned the letters of Mem( ) and Mem sofid ( ) and the words were; Mayim (water ), Melech (king ), Malkah (Queen ).

This week's Shabbat were Maya & Ethan Instead of last week!!

1st Grade Hebrew – ‘

This week we started learning question words in Hebrew like? (what)? (where) etc. We are very excited and busy getting ready for our Siddur party. We end the week learning parashat . Shabbat Shalom

1st Grade English This week the students completed chapter 7 in math. They also started a research project on Polar Bears. They students learned many amazing facts about these beautiful animals. Hope everyone has a relaxing long weekend!

2nd Grade English 2nd grade had another great week. They earned a party because of all the compliments our class received! They are subtracting 3-digit numbers with regrouping and continue to improve their reading and writing skills. Please make sure your children are reading every night and are filling in their reading logs. Shabbat Shalom!

2nd Grade Hebrew

The class is still practicing our Tefilots every morning and every afternoon. We are also working on our writing and continued to study Houmash through Parashat . We finished the week learning about Parashat Terumah.

3rd Grade English This week the third grade read a story called, “The Supermarket”. They learned about how and where the food comes from that we get at the supermarket. We also watched a great video of how chocolate was made. We learned that many of the foods we eat come from places in the United States as well as other countries far away. We are still working on division in math! Hope everyone has a great weekend!

3rd Grade Hebrew

The class moved on in our limoudim of Houmash through Parashat Haye Sarah. I am very proud of the improvement of the yeladim. They are able to do the avodah by themselves, read and answer the questions. We also talked about Parashat Terumah.

4th Grade English The 4th grade has just finished chapter 5 in math. They are now moving on towards fractions. They are also finishing up, “I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbour”. They are extremely excited to begin our next class novel.

4th Grade Hebrew

In Hebrew we learned new vocabulary words and made stories and sentences about our family. In Humash we studied the emotional reunion between and Joseph as well as the beginning of the Journey in Egypt. .

th 5 Grade English

5th grade had another good week and were rewarded for all of their compliments with a party. We began multiplying fractions and continue to learn new vocabulary words and improving their writing skills. Please make sure your children continue to read for 30 minutes daily. Have a good weekend. Shabbat Shalom!

5th Grade Hebrew “ ” Chodesh tov! The class prayed Halel for Rosh Chodesh. This week we discussed many topics in Hebrew.