Kitah Gimmel

Dear parents,

Last week we learned about the upcoming holiday of Tu B’ishvat :

On the 15th day of Shevat (a Hebrew month), we celebrate this Jewish holiday. It’s the celebration of the New Year for Trees. During this time is when the trees start blooming in Israel and begin the fruit-bearing cycle. We learned the song the almond tree is blooming ((השקדיה פורחת. As a follow up activity, we mad an art project where we created the almonds tree. In Israel, there are tree planting events and activities. In celebration of Tu Bishvat, we eat fruit such as dates, figs, pomegranates, grapes, and olives. The Jewish blessing over the fruit is: “Baruch Atah A-donay, Elo-heinu Melech ha’olam borei pri ha-etz”. (Blessed are you, lord our God, king of the universe, who created the fruit of the tree.)

In Hebrew we learned some new vocabulary connected with the holiday of B’ishvat and reviewed the Hebrew letters we learned so far. Our Hebrew homework will be on line here are the instructions:

Click on the link http://www.behrmanhouse.com/students than click on the arrow in the box that says Practice Hebrew, from there you go to lessons. Click on lesson3 and 4 on the left box. When your child completes his or her homework please send me an email or write a note that they did their homework.

My email is rivkisling@gmail.com

Hope to see you all this upcoming Sunday for our Mitzvah morning which will start at 9:30 AM.

Thank you

Morah Rivka