Letter from Morah Schusterman

Dear Parents,

So much is going on in Ganon! Although we spend a relatively small amount of time together, we cover many topics and accomplish a lot!

Since our return from winter break, we got back to sharing Torah Stories. I think this is a unanimous favorite!

We began with the book of Sh'mot, Exodus, and shared about Moshe being rescued from the NIle River by princess Batya. As well as the story of the burning bush. After returning to Egypt, Mitzrayim in Hebrew, he confronted Par'oh with a warning of plagues should he choose to keep the Jews as slaves.

Amazing how the children sit at the edge of their seats listening with bated breadth while stick figure, sketchy art is drawn on the white board. 

We had fun dancing to some songs with a Mezuzah theme and YY shared a book he has with the class. Many children told us about Mezuzahs that they have or have seen. One lline in a song really tickled their imagination which explains that Hashem is always watching over us "and Hashem never sleeps". This Ganon group is a deep, thinking group. The questions they pose and the comments they make, can make one think they are in a philosophy class!!

Child: "What does Hashem look like?"

Another child: "Hashem is invisible!"

Another child: "Invisible is when you can't see something but you can feel it."

Back to child number one: "Oh, so Hashem wants us to feel he is here, but not see him."

Wow! I don't think that was in my teaching agenda!

Alef-Bet and Hebrew

The very first letter of  Hebrew is Alef. We have two Alef queens and one Alef king in our class, Elin, Ori and Ari.

Many words begin with Alef, some of the words we talked about was, Abba, Imma, Ach, Achot, Orei'ach, Adom (father, mother, brother, sister, guest, red) 

We had great success with our Alef-Bet centers using blocks, sticks, boards, mini boards, magnadoodle, and play dough. All students got to do at least some of them.

There is more to tell, but I will sign off for now. 

Thank you for entrusting your amazing children in our hands. I'm loving this opportunity to teach your child and look forward to many more fun days ahead. 

Have a wonderful Shabbat!

Morah Fraidel Schusterman