Sharyn Blaustein Volume 19 Principal Issue 4 October 24, 2014 Tishre 30, 5775 Yamin Levy LIHA Rabbi THE VOICE OF OUR CHILDREN A WEEKLY PUBLICATION

A Message From Rabbi Yamin Levy

Shabbat Shalom My Dear Friends, ongoing process of study which only death can terminate. Welcome back from our Holiday season. I trust everyone enjoyed a spirited and festive holiday. This process involves always being alert willing Everyone knows the story of and how he to try new skills, entertain a new thought, saved humanity by building an ark, a sanctuary develop a new friendship, or surrender an old that protected and sheltered him and his family prejudice. Open mindedness is a commitment to from the rest of the . While this was gain ground and move forward in our search for necessary for Noah it is far from ideal in our meaningful existence. world. At the heart of this worldview lies the pledge we , as described in the Shema , is made as a people 3300 years ago at Mount most concerned with our serving Hashem with Sinai to be ’s messengers on an exalted our heart, our soul and our might. We cannot, and perilous errand – to be the carriers of however, ignore the significance of the mind – Hashem’s word to humanity. Through the , especially a mind that grows and is open. There our mark of nobility, the central symbol of our is no doubt that open-mindedness comes with historical adventure and the most potent source risks – but like a parachute the mind is meant to of our strength, we are guaranteed survival. be open otherwise the consequences can be fatal. The words of a non-Jew are often more compelling and so I quote none other than Mark To shut the windows of the mind is to flirt with Twain who wrote about the Jewish people in a mental and spiritual suffocation. Our minds are famous article that appeared in Harper’s meant to be challenged with knowledge Magazine in 1898: “All things are mortal but the broadening our horizons and expanding our Jew; all forces pass, but he remains.” wisdom. We recite in our prayers every evening: “The It is a misconception to think that we have been words of the Torah are our life and the length of referred to as the people of the book because our days”. we only study one book - the Torah. We are people of the book because we appreciate the May we always find strength in our sacred texts.

Parashat Candle Lighting time is at 5:42 p.m. Havdalah time is at 6:50 p.m.

A Poem by David Davydov 3rd Grade

To discover fossils is fun And when I’m done I’ll travel to the museum So people can come and see’em I will be famous one day And everyone will say

We need to protect the fossils Let’s all show our muscles Between mountains and rocks I’ll look for fossils, and won’t lose my socks.

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Picture Day is

November 4th! Please submit the form that sent home with your child by Friday October 31st! Please have your child dressed in Shabbat . Check our website for all the available picture packages!

Mr. & Mrs. Take A Look At LIHA The following Marc Dorwitt parents have for Noach’s donated a book birthday Toddler to the LIHA Mr. & Mrs. Library in honor Ashir Pirouzian This the children started to learn about of their for Yael’s Parashat Noah. They learned that Noah was a children’s birthday good man who listened to Hashem. The children Mr. David also learned that Hashem told Noah to build an birthday… Ark and bring animals two by two. We also Soleimani & Ms. learned about opposites, such as, float and sink. Shula Ograd for Shabbat Ima was Malka and Shabbat Aba was Jordana’s Eitan. birthday Shabbat Shalom :)

Nursery I Welcome back! We hope everyone enjoyed the chagim and all the wonderful projects the children made for the holidays. The children began learning about Parashat Bereshit and how Hashem created the world. Please look for their beautiful class artwork, reflecting the days of creation, outside of Morah Sara’s office. Some of our books of the week were “My Shabbos 1,2,3’s,” “If You’re Angry and You Know It”, “I’m a Little Caterpillar”, “The Magic Castle” and “Firebears The Rescue Team”. Our Shabbat Ima & Abba were Arielle & Ethan. Shabbat Shalom

Nursery II We had a very full week. The children learned about how Hashem made the world in 6 days and made Shabbat for resting on the 7th day. The children worked very hard on their Bereshit books. We also learned about how Hashem told Noach to build a big boat out of trees (called a tevah), and how he told Noach to take 2 of every animal and put them in the tevah, we know that Hashem made a big storm and flood, and then a beautiful rainbow afterwards. Shabbat Ima & Abba were Michal and Daniel. Sneak Peak for next week: All about

Pre K I This week we completed Parahsat Bereshit and learned all about Noach, his wife, three sons and the flood. Noach built a tevah that was huge and saved the animals who came on the boat two by two. Noach was a very big Tzaddik. This week we started reviewing shapes and colors. Our Abba this week was David G. and our Ima was Naomi. Thank You.

Kindergarten English

While reading the main book of the week “Smash Crash”, we learned our six amazing words; dud, proper, pirates, fabulous, signals, and perfect. We began learning about nouns (naming words which are people, animals, places and things). We learned the lowercase letters c & o (short sound) the sounds they make and how to write them properly. We learned about pumpkins; the different kinds, different ways to use them, the order of their growth etc. The children were amazed to find out that some people played “pumpkin” drums! Some people carved out a big hole in a pumpkin and used them as “row” boats in the water!

Kindergarten Hebrew We hope everyone had a great “Yamim Tovim” although it’s good to get back to our routine. We started the week by reviewing the letters Alef- , vet, and gimmel, in addition we learned the letter dalet) and the words we learned were: delet (door ), dag (fish ) and degel (flag ). Last week we learned about Parashat Bereshit and this week we learned about Noach. They colored the Parash book so please (it would be nice) if you can go over the story and ask them questions!! To support the “Shabbos Project” we also made a challa and learned a song about it too! Shabbat Ima & Abba were Ariella & Ariel Hasedian.

1st Grade Hebrew – ‘ Hope you all had a great holiday. It was nice seeing the kids after vacation. Now we start again studying spelling words every week, please review the words every night. We also started . We learned the story of and

1st Grade English

This week the first grade read the story Fall Walk by Virginia Snow and they made beautiful leaf rubbings that we displayed outside our classroom. In math we began working on making models to show subtraction. We had a very productive week.

2nd Grade English Second graders had another wonderful week. We had a blast reading and learning about space and continue working on place value in math. Shabbat Shalom

2nd Grade Hebrew Welcome back children! We hope that you are ready for a lot of learning in our class. We have begun the study of the 2 first Parashats of the first book of Bereshit: Bereshit and Noach. Shabbat Shalom!

3rd Grade English This week the third grade will have completed unit 1 in math. They will be taking the unit 1 test next week. We have also completed our Charlie McButton writing. Parents please make sure that you are checking your child's homework folder daily.

3rd Grade Hebrew The talmidim are learning how to build nice sentences in Hebrew. We have begun to learn how to use the right punctuation (!,.?) and the right connection word. We are also learning how to ask a question using the right question words. We finished the week with Parashat Bereshit and Noach. Shabbat Shalom!

4th Grade English The fourth grade is presently learning how to break numbers apart into their base ten numbers, to multiply, as well as learning the base of algebra. They also have just finished reading “Lewis, Clark, and Me”

4th Grade Hebrew We learned the first parasha, Parashat “Bereshit”. The class did very well on their parashat test. We are learning a lot of new Hebrew words and how to use them in conversation.

5th Grade English This was our first full week of school in October. We worked hard. We took our chapter 1 test in math. It was pretty difficult but we tried our best. In social studies we learned about the Iriquois and how they hunted forest animals and grew corn, squash and beans.

5th Grade Hebrew The class had a big test on Haachot Succot, and they did very well. We are having different topic conversation in Hebrew regularly.