We had an excellent first day this past Sunday! It was so great to see all of your students' smiling faces and chat with many of you at drop off. I am sure we'll have much more time to chat and get to know one another as the year goes on and I look forward to speaking with each of you.
As we talked about in class, YBY is such a special program because we have students in three grades (the only in religious school!) and we get to spend class time with our parents every other week. We learned about the theme of the year (middot and mitzvot - values and actions) and talked about how middot can be represented by our hearts and heads while mitzvot are performed with our hands. Ask your student(s) to show you these meanings using the hand movements we learned!
A big highlight of the morning was decorating the classroom with our self portraits. We certainly have some talented artists on our hands! Check out this photo of our newly decorated bulletin board that includes everyone in the YBY class!
Self portraits of the Yad b'Yad shining stars!
Be sure to check them out next time you are in the classroom!
As a reminder, we do not have Sunday School this week, but I hope you will all join the Temple Isaiah community at Rosh Hashanah services. Complete service information can be found at http://www.temple-isaiah.org/worship/high-holy-days/. I look forward to seeing you at services and on Sunday, 9/23 at 9:00 am for our first Family Day.
Shana Tova,
Julie
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