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It is my great honor to write a final message to the parents, children, staff and community that have supported the Kadima Community Day School/Solomon Schechter Day School for more than 27 years. We established, maintained and cared for an amazing school that succeeded in its mission of educating our children in Hebrew and English and creating bright, caring, informed, and thoughtful adults who have an understanding of their history, culture and religious beliefs. Our graduates have gone on to excellent colleges, are competitive in the workforce, and perhaps most importantly, give back to society by volunteering and involving themselves in acts of kindness. Please join us to celebrate our successes on Sunday, June 7, 2009 at Temple Emanuel in Haverhill. The event will honor our "Healer of The World Award" recipient Larry Cowan and celebrate 27 years of commitment to Jewish Day School education.The event will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., and tickets can be purchased by calling our school administrator at 978-475-5510. We look forward to seeing you there. Remember, a school can close, but the lessons taught and learned last forever. Jake ...IN THE GANON AND GAN
This month, the Ganon and Gan students have been learning about "A Healthy Body." With activities exploring the Skeletal System, Digestive System, Nervous System, Circulatory System, and Respiratory System, the children have a basic understanding of how their bodies work. With our Dramatic Play center now transformed into a doctor's office, we have many "patients" visiting us for sick and well checkups. All students have had the opportunity to use a stethoscope, an otoscope, reflex hammers, a blood pressure cuff, scales and measuring sticks to measure height and weight, tongue depressors, and of course a thermometer.
...IN KITOT ALEPH & BET
Kitot Aleph and Bet continue to work hard in all areas of the general education curriculum. Both classes are exploring fractions; their favorite math activities are playing Granny's Apples and Aunty Pasta, two games that reinforce fraction concepts. Kitah Aleph continues to develop skills associated with regrouping in addition and is becoming automatic at recognizing number pairs that equal ten. A new TERC game for Kitah Aleph is Go Fish for Tens. Kitah Bet is becoming adept at using mental math strategies to regroup in subtraction with double digit numbers, continues to learn the multiplication facts and has recently started exploring division with the Montessori Division Board. In literacy, we just finished up a unit on fairy tales. The students learned the common elements of a fairy tale and we read versions of traditional fairy tales from many different cultures. There is a great deal of enthusiasm as we begin our new science theme, the Solar System. Is there a busier time of the year than the four weeks between Purim and Pesach? The frenetic activity that characterizes Jewish households around the world is now felt in the Kadima classrooms as well. We celebrated Purim with zany and fun-filled activities. The staff dressed up as characters from the megillah, dramatizing the entire story as children booed Haman with their handmade ra'ashanim. Hard as it was to believe, Tami made for a fearful villain, pleading with the wine-guzzling Achashverosh (Yaffah), his beautiful queen Esther (Emily) and her pious cousin Mordecai (Tara). We rounded out the day with activity stations - masks, mishlo'ach manot bags and Purim Lotto - a costume parade to our friends at Rompers, a pasta se'udah prepared by our very own chef Papa John, and delivery of a Purim basket to our hosts, the staff of South Church. No sooner had we baked and eaten hamentashen than we were preparing for Pesach and the Kadima Model Seder on April 7. The Gan and Ganon are practicing the Four Questions as well as many other songs, and will be bringing home all the accessories for a perfect seder - seder plate and matching matzah cover, box and Afikomen bag. Aleph and Bet students are assembling their own Haggadot, complete with a six-page all Hebrew story of the Exodus and drawings and explanations of core selections in the Haggadah. As part of their exploration of the concept of freedom, the students are learning about Ruby Bridges, the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. This year's Model Seder will be a multi-media extravaganza, with songs, dances, drama and art that reflect the varied and rich concepts behind the holiday. Chag Same'ach - happy Passover to all!
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