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Shavuon: Volume 2 Issue 13, April 4, 2008
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April 4 2008 28 AdarII 5768 Vol 2,
Issue 13
Hag kasher v'same-ah! Have a Happy and
Kosher Passover!
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PESAH!
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Candle Lighting
April 4 6:57
April 11 7:05
April 18 7:12
April 19 7:57
April 20 7:58
April 25 7:20
April 26 8:04
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Seder Plates-Made with Love |
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Seder plates decorated with spring
colors were made by Kindergarten and Kitta Aleph
(Grade1). Kindergarten made three dimensional
plates with each item elevated. A special
vegetarian plate was made with the traditional
shank bone replaced by a beet. Kitta Aleph's
plates have individual plastic bowls for each
item. Beautiful Work! Rivka Eskovitz |
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Parent Teacher Conferences-April
7 and 8 |
Our
Parent-Teacher conferences for
Grades Pre-Kindergarten through
Grade 8 will be held on Monday,
April 7 and Tuesday, April 8, 2008,
from 4:00-8:00 p.m. All students
will have a full day of school on
both days.
For Scheduling Information and More
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Save
the Date:Grandparents & Special Visitors
Day, Friday, May 9 8:30-11am |
Friday,
May 9th will be our annual Grandparents
and Special Visitors Day! Each year,
over 200 grandparents, relatives,
friends and neighbors-all very welcomed
special visitors to the school-enjoy a
morning of food, song and fun. For more
information, contact Meredith Sinel at
msinel@jcdsri.org
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The
Feinstein Program-Good Deeds |
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Calling All Good Deed Doers!
The final
Feinstein Newsletter will be sent out at
the end of April. If you or your child
have done a Mitzvah or are involved in a
Mitzvah project, please let Sue Adler,
our Feinstein Coordinator, know about
it. No Mitzvah is too small. You can
e-mail her at
sadler@jcdsri.org
Information
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Pre-Pesah Dinner, 1st Night
Seder and 2nd Night Seder |
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Help Buy Kosher Food for Pesah |
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Second Grade, under the
leadership of Sue Adler, will once again
be collecting money to be given to
Jewish Family Services to help families
buy Kosher food for Pesah. If you would
like to make a contribution, please
bring your donation to the front desk.
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PJ Library Book Club at JCDS for
Grades Pre-K and K, 4/11 & 5/2 |
Join us
on Friday April 11 and Friday May 2 at
the PJ Library Book Club for grades
Pre-K and K. The Club meets in the
Pre-School Room from 2:30- 3:30 pm every
other week. The program will include a
story, craft project, music and a snack.
The book club is a way for students to
talk about the PJ Library book they
received in the mail and to read new
stories from the PJ Library. Parents
are welcomed. For more information on
the PJ Library please contact Nicole
Katzman,331.0956 x180 or
naktzman@bjeri.org.
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Purim Tzedakah Boxes-Grade1 |
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During Our
Purim Extravaganza, students made
mini-tzedakah boxes. Mazel Tov to Sofi
Shlepakov, Ari Vilker, Alec Goldberg,
Marin Warshay and Max Blazer, 1st
Graders, who have already filled their
boxes. The money will be given to Maot
Chitim, a special Pesah collection for
helping those in need purchase Pesah
food. Rivka Eskovitz |
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Grade 4 Pesah Activities- "Match
Card" Game
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In
preparation for Pesah, Grade Four
will be focusing on learning the
"how to" of the Seder, and some
Haggadah selections for the 15 parts
of the Seder. As we learn, we will
be reviewing using a Pesah "Match
Card" game. To integrate Pesah
preparations with General Studies,
students will be writing a piece
called "Walls of Water" in which
students remember when they
themselves crossed the Red Sea. At
our final event on Wednesday, April
16, we will go through the 15 parts
of the Seder that we will have
learned, using sections from the
Haggadah interspersed with questions
from the match card game. The
highlight will be sharing our Walls
of Water essays as part of the Magid
(recounting) section of the Seder.
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Daniel Katz to the State Level National
Geographic Bee |
Daniel Katz, Seventh
Grader, will participate in
the state level National
Geographic Bee on April 4th
at Rhode Island College.
Daniel came in 5th place in
the 2007 competition. The
state level competition
brings Daniel one step
closer to the National
Geographic Bee final round
to be held in Washington,
DC. in May. Lisa Bergman,
Middle School Social Studies
& Language Arts teacher,
will accompany Daniel. Break
a Leg Daniel!
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OUR PURIM
EXTRAVAGANZA - THANK YOU TO ALL! |
The
First Annual JCDSRI Purim
Extravaganza was truly phenomenal!
The students were greeted as they
arrived at school on Purim day by a
JCDSRI lobby transformed into the
ancient city of Shushan. Wait,
doesn't that poster of the
politician Mordecai tacked to the
city wall resemble our Mr. Jablow?
Hmmm. Continue
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How Laura Mernoff Created
Shushan Square at JCDS |
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After being invited to work on
the lobby by Rabbi Levine I developed my
vision. I proposed transforming the
front lobby of JCDS into Shushan Square
or outside the gates of the Shushan
Palace. In this scenario, Joy
involuntarily was transformed into the
gate keeper for the Palace. I measured
different areas of the lobby and
developed separate paintings that would
fit into their particular location.
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Purim Dinner Centerpieces |
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Purim
masks were created by the Middle School
Arts Elective for centerpieces at the
Purim dinner. Each student made two
masks and a base to support the masks.
Thank you for your unique art work!
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Fifth Grade's Rat |
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Stop
by and see the rat skeleton we
assembled. Yes, we made a rat
skeleton. How did we find enough rat
bones to make this skeleton? In our
Food Web and Energy Flow science
unit we learned that owls are
carnivorous hunters who prey on
rodents and small birds. The owls
swallow their prey whole but cannot
digest the bones, teeth, fur, and
feathers so they eventually
regurgitate it in the form of
pellets. When dissecting an owl's
pellets, many bones were found that
we classified and constructed into
an entire rat skeleton. Stop by and
see our "rat" and a project
explanation by Rachel Nassau ('11).
Fifth graders love science!
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From Our Art Studio-Collage
Self-Portraits |
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Using painted paper, material
and colored papers, Fourth Grade
students learned to cut and tear shapes
out of the paper to create themselves.
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Welcome Yael Krieger, our Pardes
Intern |
We welcome
Yael Krieger, Pardes Intern and
granddaughter of our beloved community
members Seymore Krieger z"l and
Cele. From March 24-April 11 she will
be teaching Humash and other text
related materials in Grades 4, 5 and 6
and assisting Marcia Kaunfer and Rabbi
Mitchell Levine. Please join us in
welcoming her. If you would like to host
Yael, please contact Marcia Kaunfer or
Rabbi Levine at 401.751.2470.
The Pardes program is a two-year
graduate program in Jerusalem in which
students study traditional Jewish texts,
Hebrew language and pedagogy. As part
of this program, students complete a
three week student teaching experience
in North America.
Info on PardesYael
Krieger is doing a unit focusing on the
ten plagues. In today's lesson students
were given the challenge of looking for
patterns in the plagues. To introduce
the lesson, she played a fascinating
"rap" that was filled with specific
references to details about the
plagues. It really grabbed the attention
of the students!
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Time Travel-Transportation for the Year
2035 |
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The
students in Grade Three had an
amazing Social Studies/Language Arts
project to conquer. They had to
imagine they were living in the year
2035 and worked for a transportation
design firm. Their job was to create
an original design of a form of
transportation that combined two
different modes into one device. The
students were required to make a
sketch of the device, list the
advantages and disadvantages of the
design, write a detailed paragraph
on how it works, build a model of
the device, and present the project
to the class. Very Creative!
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M&M
Math-Yum! |
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After
completing a unit on geometry we
immediately started a discussion of
fractions. Using M&Ms, students made
edible lines of symmetry which is
one of the concepts they studies.
Then they used the colorful M&Ms to
better understand the idea of
fraction of a set/part of a whole.
It certainly was a sweet experience!
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ANTIGONE!-Toga Time in Grade 6 |
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The Sixth Grade class performed
"Antigone" as part of their integrated
Social Studies/Language Arts curriculum.
Sixth Graders have studied Greek
mythology, geography, direct and
representative democracy, and Greek
cultural achievements Additionally, they
have created their own myths, fables and
theatrical masks! Lisa Bergman, Middle
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In Our JCDS Community |
Get Well Wishes
To Edward O.
Adler, father of Susan Adler,
teacher, who is recovering at
home. The
entire community is thinking
about you and we hope you get
better soon.
Announcement
Planet Aid Donation Box - You
may have noticed this donation
container in Temple Emanu-El's
parking lot. Planet Aid helps
victims of hunger, war, natural
disasters and other catastrophes
and helps impoverished people in
Asia, Africa and the United
States. They raise funds by
collecting gently used clothing
and shoes, using the proceeds of
sales to fund various charity
projects worldwide. Placement
of a Planet Aid box at Temple
Emanu-El is the result of Joel
Niedel-Gresh's Bar Mitzvah
Tikkun Olam ("repairing the
world") project.
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Support the JCC Maccabi Team |
Support The JCC Maccabi Team and enjoy 2
hours of unlimited bowling in your own
lane!
When: Sunday, April 27, 2008,4:00-
6:00
Where: Bowling Academy,354 Taunton
Avenue, East Providence
Cost: $15.00/person.The fee includes 2
hours of unlimited bowling and shoe
rental.
Contact Darlene at
ddesroches@jccri.org
or 401-861-8800.
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If you have suggestions or comments
please e-mail Karolyn White,
Editor
kwhite@jcdsri.org
Dani Steiner, Head of School
dsteiner@jcdsri.org
Photo Credits: Meredith Sinel, Karolyn
White, Naomi Stein, & Jen bend
Jewish Community Day School of Rhode
Island
85 Taft Avenue
Providence Rhode Island 02906
401-751-2470 FAX 401-351-7674 |
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