6th Grade Debates Challenging Authority

It was such a beautiful day yesterday we could not resist having class outside. The class sat on a bench and read the story of how the Jews did not trust in Moses and G-D when they were told to enter the promise land. Through this story we talked about challenging authority and whether or not the Jewish people should have challenged G-D. The group was excited to talk about times in their lives when they have challenged authority and both of my classes agreed that there are times when it is both appropriate and inappropriate to stand up for what you believe in. The class ended with a three way debate. One group was the Israelites who were saying that G-Ds punishment of having them wander through the desert for forty years was unjustified. Another group was Moses and the final group was G-D. This three way debate was neat to watch and hopefully it showed that there are multiple perspectives to every story. There was great participation by all and hopefully the weather will stay beautiful so we can have class outside more often!

Hello, our names are Lucy Campbell and Corey Jacobson. we are students in 6E, including Liron's second period class. Today we played the eraser game. The eraser game is a when we read a prayer and if someone successfully reads something, they get to slide an eraser across the chalkboard. Wherever it lands on, that's how many points they get for their team. If someone said the prayer incorrectly the other team can steal the points! Today we are using the prayer Ashrei that we will be needing to know for our Bar or Bat mitzvah. keep reading our blog!

March 6, 2012

Today, Father Cunin, priest of Brandise University came in Waltham, MA. He talked to us a lot about Christianity and the history of it. For instance, how Jesus started Christianity, and the relationship between Jews and Christians. Because of this experience we learned so much of a different religion and it is a memory I will never forget.

Paragraph Published by 6E in Sasha's first period class.

Hi. this is Drew Keller from 6 C's Hebrew school class. In these pictures you can see that we have been reading from our siddur's. Jake stern and Alex Mindich are reading the Ashrei in
these pictures.

We played The "Eraser" Game, and had a lot of fun.

Ashrei

In the Sunday sixth grade Hebrew classes the students are learning the Ashrei along with relearning several other prayers.  We are reviewing the V'ahavta, the Avot v'Imahot and the G'vurot.  The students are learning the blessings for before and after the Torah and Haftarah and the Ashrei.  They are progressing very well with their learning.  To keep the students interested we play games with the readings.  They throughly enjoy learning and competing with themselves to beat their own scores.

6th Grade Celebrates Tu b'shevat!

Today 6th grade classed 6E and 6D celebrated Tu B'Shevat by having our very own seders! Our service contained different Torah quotes that mentioned trees and we were able to discuss nature in the Torah and how we can help our planet today. In a Tu B'Shevat seder you eat three different types of fruits: one with an outside skin, one with a pit and one fruit where you can eat the whole thing. We ate oranges, apples and raisons which were delicious and it was great to hear all the ideas of why we might group the fruit into these three categories. Everyone had some insightful comments! We finished our seder by going outside and seeing happy birthday to the trees! It was a wonderful class and I think we all leared a bit about Tu B'Shevat!

Up Up and Away!

Earlier this month BESTY went Up Up and Away for a BESTY SkyZone Sleep-under! We loaded up buses and bounced at Skyzone for an hour and got delicious Pizza. Afterwards we headed back to temple for an "Up" filled Havdalah lead by BESTY board member Sam Moller and changed into PJs' for popcorn and the movie UP! It was a great event and really got 2012 started up an "Up" note :)

Hope to see you skiing Feb 12th for BESTY/Wilderness Ski trip!!