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Feb. 21, 2020

פ“ו שבט תש“כ

פרשת משפטיםVol. 3 Issue 22

Menahel’s Message

A Weekly Column on the Topic of Al Pi Darko Chinuch

Rabbi Sheftel Skaist

Melave Malka

This Motzei

Shabbos

8:15PM

גוט שבת!

Sefer תילים begins with, “Fortunate is the man who does not go after the

counsel of the wicked…. for he is like a tree planted upon streams of

water, which gives its fruit at the proper time and its foliage does not

wither.” ל“חז say that we learn from the phrase “its foliage does not

whither” that the casual speech of תלמיחי חכמים is worthy of study.

A תלמיח חכם’s ‘fruit’ is his Torah learning and insights. His ‘foliage’

includes all his other speech which does not wither, but remains alive

and fresh. This is because everything he does is governed by Torah;

even his speech about worldly matters is connected to Torah. His

ordinary conversations become elevated and incorporated into the realm

of החושי.

We do not need to be תלמיחי חכמים to engage in this type of speech. We

just need to live our lives with Torah as a central value. In practice, we

should always ask ourselves, “Can I accomplish something positive with

my words of this moment? Can I make the person walking towards me

feel good by giving a warm greeting or by asking about his welfare? Can

I strengthen the bond with my spouse or child by expressing interest in

the things that matter to him or her? Can I cope with my worries better by

sharing them with a friend?”

Here, in yeshiva, Rebbeyim and Moros take the time to schmooze with

the boys. I’ve observed this happening during snack breaks, recess, and

lunch. It may be at the beginning of the day before yeshiva begins, or at

the end of the day by dismissal. One Morah comes early and meets with a

different student each day in her classroom. She brings him a hot cocoa

and they schmooze – שיחת חוליש – about random topics. The purpose is to

create a relationship and forge a connection with each boy, and to better

understand his needs in class.

May we all be zoche to use our mundane speech for the higher purpose

of strengthening relationships and to become even closer to our family

and friends.

Have an enjoyable Shabbos!

Reminder:

Sunday, Feb. 23

Parent Teacher

Conferences

Monday, Feb. 24

Picture Day Please make sure your

son wears the YDA

logo shirt

Happy Birthday to…

Avraham Gez– 26 Shevat

Shaya Lerer– 28 Shevat

Dear Parents, ש“עמו

This week we learned about פרשי

the special 613 מצות! We discussed

מצות and ,מצות לא תעשי .vs מצות עשי .מצות ביש אחם לחבירו .vs ביש אחם למהום

We hope you enjoy our beautiful

placemats we weaved independently!

This week, we learned the last ברכות

We categorized the .שיכל ,ברכי

different things we say שיכל on by

dairy products, drinks, poultry and

candy. The kinderlach showed real

comprehension by being able to sort

foods into the right category and

right ברכי. We especially enjoyed

making our own lemonade ices by

squeezing the lemons all on our own!

What a yummy שיכל treat! Mr. שיכל was super fun to create with all the

different שיכל foods.

Mazel Tov to Moshe Kornfeld הריאי

and Yisrael Shalom Julanov upon

finishing their first הריאי ספר! Their

efforts and persistence really paid

off. We’re constantly reinforcing the

the boys are learning by נהוחות

punctuating words and writing נהוחות on sentences and pictures.

The Aliya Update פרשת משפטים

Feb. 21, 2020

Preschool Morah Hindy Morah Ruchy

Morah Chany

Squeezing lemons on our own!

Sorting בשר and חלב

Josh weaving his placemat

Shaya making his Mr. שיכל man

ABC Our classroom is a real

literate environment. The boys are

reading words, sentences, and

entire books independently. Our

sight word vocabulary expanded

to include you, to, do, his, and down.

We learned the consonants b and

h. We had a special hair barber

visiting our class. We then had a

super special upsherin cutting

Moshe Yosef’s beautiful blonde

hair. We hid bracelets and played

hot and cold. We inflated hand

balloons and practiced our

reading with that as well.

Throughout all these fun activities,

we kept practicing our reading

skills with a special focus now on

letter names.

vocabulary is also growing. In addition to לשוש הוחש Our לשוש יתורי

reviewing the words we learned previously, we also learned שני. We

spoke about who the Rebbi in שני grade is and which boys are שני to the

right, שני to the left etc.


Morah Chany


Feb. 21, 2020

Blowing up a

hand balloon Our hair barber

Our hair-cutting activity


Morah Chany


Feb. 21, 2020

Yisrael Shalom adding

in the missing נהוחות Shaya sorting

חלב and בשר Yochai sorting the food and putting

it into the appropriate ברכות wagon

Moshe filling in the missing

vowel using the insta-learn

Eliyahu S. working on

a math sheet Ben writing and reading

real sentences

Aharon writing cvc words to

the corresponding pictures

Moshe Yosef & Yochai

playing a cvc lotto Eliyahu R. reading and

sequencing ברכת יתורי

Dear Parent’s, עמו''ש

-ב''י שלום עליכם! for another wonderful week here in

of YDA כתי ב'

Areas of accomplishments:

We are .אשרי We are learning teitch and lessons on תפילי

up to ּעיני כל אליך ישבּרו.

We had a six minute review with follow up גירסא

questions each day covering parshas א“ל-ח“פרהים כ - ויצא .

!פרשת וישלח and we started ,פ' ויצא We reviewed חומש

חיני הרבש פסח We learned numbers 401-418 about תרי''ג .ופסח שני

working ,טראפּ The boys are working diligently on טראפּ

their way to independent גירסא.

We had lessons on the ‘xtra’ טראפ sounds.

building ,לשוש יתּוֹרי Boys are working on לשוש יתּוֹרי

words in different tenses.

Boys work independently on their daily הריאי

assignments. We have group kriah daily as we are getting

more and more fluent while keeping our accuracy.

We discussed parsha with parsha picture cards and פרשי

פרשיות and the four שבת שהלים We learned about .מחרשים

leading us into Purim and Pesach, and the mitzvos that

come with them.

Timeline We discussed גלות בבל stories of Belshatzar and

Daniel in preparation of the background leading up to

the Purim story!

א גוטעש שבת החש, רבי י. א. מיללער

Grade 2 Rabbi Y. A. Miller


Feb. 21, 2020

Avraham

working on a

girsa review

question

sheet

Meir learning

with geshmak

and focus

Celebrating Avraham’s 8th birthday!


Last week we learned all about the concept of multiplying using

repeated addition and adding together equal groups. With that

in mind, we went on to learn the concept of dividing. We divided

by grouping objects by a specific number, to find the number of

groups. We also learned how to write division equations, and

solve simple word problems that involve division.

We focused on theme and plot this week in literature, honing

our comprehension skills. We learned this as four points and did

practice to make sure we acquired the skills:

• What happens in the beginning, middle, and end of a story is

the plot.

• Every story has one main idea which is the theme.

• Good readers pay attention to what happens and the order in

which it happens. (plot)

• They are then able to figure out and understand the main idea

of a story. (theme)

We introduced the blending strategy for words with the long i

sound, then we blended and sorted long and short i words,

sorting the long i by its spelling i, ie, igh, y.

We reviewed the concept of past, present, and future verbs. We

then wrote sentences using the verb in different tenses.

Building our oral vocabulary, we learned words like being

generous with others, assisting others when they need our

help, and if your snack is abundant, then it’s nice to share.

We heard and read about the upcoming elections. We read that

Bernie Sanders has a strong chance of being the democrat to run

against Donald Trump.

Have a great Shabbos,

Miss Tenenbaum

Grade 2 Morah L. Tenenbaum


Feb. 21, 2020

Meir reading

a story

Avi working

on bell work

Aaron and

Yosef Shalom

working with

verbs


This was a special week in the third grade!

First of all we finished parshas vayishlach and

quickly moved on to parshas vayeishev! We’re

ready to start really flying as our goal to finish

bereishis is still on our minds.

We also finished our memory system project

in time for parent teacher conferences this

coming Sunday. We’re really excited about

memory system as it is helping us remember

what happened in each of the perakim of

Bereishis.

In other news, we have been reviewing all of

the trupp one by one over the last few weeks

and are almost finished. This review is really

helping us improve our laining as we have

been breaking up into chavrusas to prepare

pesukim to lain you our classmates. We are

seeing real improvement. The boys have even

asked if they could have more time to prepare

their pesukim so that they can perfect the

laining before doing it for the class.

Have a wonderful Shabbos!

Rabbi Borr

Grade 3

Rabbi Nissan Borr


Feb. 21, 2020

The boys

finishing

up their

memory

system

project


This week after much work we were מסיים מסכת This made our week even more special !ראש ישני

and enjoyable than other weeks. We are reviewing

the entire mesechta, and are currently reviewing פרה‘ב thoroughly. Our goal is to know what each mishna

discusses by heart.

In חומש, we finished ז“פרה ט , in which we learned

all about the most miraculous dish called the מש. We

then continued our learning in י“רש , where we

discovered many new ideas in the פסוהים.

In נביא, we learned a fascinating story about the

givonim and their conniving deceitful behavior to

trick ייושע into keeping them alive. One thing that

highlighted for us in this perek, is the ייושע

importance of making a היחוש י‘ and not ו“ח a

‘ חילול י .

In taryag, the boys are becoming much more fluent

in the מצות. The class reviews numbers 200-260 in

under five minutes! We are currently up to 320 מצוי.

Have a restful Shabbos!

רבי ש. מור

Grade 4 Rabbi Shmuel Mor


Feb. 21, 2020

Chazzering

mishnayos

Grade 4 Miss S. Glassman

Dear Parents , עמו''ש

We had a great week of learning!

We learned and acquired many new skills including:

Math: We learned how to solve word problems involving

more than one step, using fractions and a whole number.

We are constantly reviewing our basic math facts with daily

math drills.

Literature: We learned how to identify the characteristics of

a character by focusing on what the character says and does.

Spelling: This week’s spelling list focused on words ending

with a ‘er’ or ‘ar’. We practiced and reviewed these spelling

words throughout the week.

Grammar: We’ve been working on our daily quick fix it’s

with the help of our ‘’Check mates’’.

We’ve been focusing on placing an apostrophe in the place

of the missing letters in a contraction.

Writing: We practiced ‘’building’’ a story using a specific

setting, character, and main event.

Handwriting: We’re working on perfecting and

strengthening our cursive handwriting skills throughout the

week.

Science: We focused on another category of vertebrates –

the fish. We’ve learned how fish breathe under water and

about their many different features. We can now categorize

many different vertebrate animals.

Social Studies: We had our social studies test on our region’s

unit.

Gut Shabbos!

I look forward to seeing you personally at the Melava Malka!

Miss Glassman


Feb. 21, 2020

Taking the Social Studies test

Math

Minutes

Dear Parents, עמו''ש

!שלום עליכם It was 'ברוך י a week of growth in תורי ועבוחי.

Areas of accomplishments:

We reviewed tucking in one’s .מנחי The boys having been working on the physical preparation for תפילי

clothing and going to the bathroom before תפילי. This allows one to be in a more mentshlich mindset for

davening.

The Upper Boys continued with the ideas of lending money without .בהיאות The boys continued further in גמרא

specifying a due date. Is there a difference if the loan is done verbally or through a document? What makes a

documented loan different? What was the historical perspective regarding the trouble for making a documented

loan? We then were treated with seeing how important understanding תורי was to תלמיחים. We were then

introduced to the laws of ערלי, specifically to how it is affected by the month before ראש ישני. Next, we

dissected how a חרשי works from the stage until the final ילכי. What a beautiful masterpiece!

The Intermediate boys continued with the ideas of טומאי . what is a מת מצוי? Who must bury a מת מצוי?

What is the process of becoming טיור? What is the difference between a טבול יום and כיפורים מחוסר ? Next,

we discussed the dynamics of a חרשי. What are the rules for using seemingly superfluous words? How many

specifications in a פסוה create a rule instead of just a חיש? How far do we take specificity into account when

forming a חיש?

program booklets are ready! Just in time, as some of the boys are already awaiting חומש The accelerated חומש

the new פרשיות. It is great to see how the start off their mornings with running ahead and interpreting the

עיוש and בהיאות program as well. Between the חזרי on their own! We look forward to instituting a פסוהים

programs of חומש, soon the boys will be the ones giving the שיעור and the רבי will be able to learn from them.

The questions, answers, and creative ?!פרשי How beautiful is it to see the boys preparing each week’s פרשי

it sparks from the boys is a tremendous נחת!

The boys will be soon preparing the .ילכות Some of the boys have transitioned to learning morning ילכי

.פורים of ילכות

.The topic was Natural vs Willful Ignorance !פרה ב' This week we finished Project #22, continuing מסילת ישרים

What are the components necessary to truly be aware and able to run from עבירות? What is the danger of

ignoring עבירות? Why would one mistakenly choose to ignore עבירות? What does it mean to debase oneself

below the level of an animal? What are the two categories of fleeing from עבירות? What is יתבוננות? How does

one integrate יתבוננות into one’s life?

בס"ד

לימוחי הוחש Intermediate & Upper Boys

Rabbi Moshe Rabbi Yosef Gildengorn Baraka


Feb. 21, 2020

Mathematics: We have started to solve for variables in algebra. We treated to the various

styles that the problems can come in and learned how to adapt to each. With enough practice, the

boys will perform them flawlessly. Remember: understanding not memorizing is key!

Literature: We have been spending a lot of time on the MobyMax systems reading all sorts of stories.

The reading comprehension skills will be put to good use throughout everything we do!

Spelling: We are so fortunate for the various levels that MobyMax provides to each and every

individual student. The boys have been hard at work going through the newly acquired words.

Science: As a typical way to prepare for the terminologies for a science exam, the boys were treated

to a big crossword puzzle. It was inspiring to see how the boys persisted in solving it. Some boys did

not even bother going to recess, they were so wrapped up in it!

UPDATE! Please be on the lookout for the Why Not Me Projects from ט''ו בשבט. There have been

so many beautiful conversations spawned by the project. What is better than a tangible feeling of

growth and ambition for the תלמיחים? Please have the boys hang it up in their rooms.

,א גוטעש שבת הוחש

רבי משי גילחנגורש ילוי

Intermediate & Upper Boys Rabbi Gildengorn Rabbi Baraka

בס"ד

לימוחי חול


Feb. 21, 2020

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