Sara the First Jewish Mother

By Rabbi Yamin Levy, LIHA Rabbi

Shalom My Dear Friends. Things could not be

better and more exciting at LIHA. The children

are having a great time learning while they are

at it. I am especially enjoying the Rabbi

Readers book club with the 5th

graders. This

week we finish our first book Al Capone Does

My Shirts. Check out the beautiful project the

5th

graders did with the book.

This week’s Perasha begins with the passing

away of our nation’s first matriarch and

mother. Abraham her husband of countless

years weeps and mourns her loss while

preparing her burial. Mothers, my dear friends,

are the givers of life and nothing, nothing at all

can ever break the bond that exists between a

woman and her children. When I reflect on

Sara of old, the mother of our people, I think of

all the women in our community who remain

the anchors of our past and the momentum of

our future.

Our Hakhamim remind us that nothing in the

world can compare to a mother’s love – it is

the force that brings us into existence and

sustains us throughout our lifetime.

A mother inspires with her quiet strength comforts

with her tenderness and awes us with her

endurance. To her young children she is their

whole world – to her adult children she is a haven

of support and guidance. Throughout our lives she

is our protector, our mentor our heroine and our

friend.

The Perasha is actually called Hayye Sara the life

of Sara. It is interesting to note that the Torah put

the seal of life on a chapter dealing with loss

because the powerful truth is that ultimately it is

life and not death that has the last word. Death can

only take from us what might have been but it

cannot take from us what has already happened. It

does not rob us of our past, our shared memories,

our time together and the countless joys and

smiles.

Like the many women who have shaped our lives

Sara Immeinu, Sara our Mother, left a priceless

legacy of ceaseless devotion, and unconditional

love – the first ever “Jewish Mother”.

Sharyn Blaustein Volume 22

Principal Issue 4

November 6, 2015

Cheshvan 24, 5775

Rabbi Yamin Levy

LIHA Rabbi

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Toddler

This week we started the color orange. We painted pumpkins and we made a collage of orange,

Shabbat Shalom

Nursery November is already here and we have a lot of fun, wonderful

things planned for this month. This week the children discovered the “different shapes” are everywhere such as; our clock is a circle shape, our floor tiles are square shape and a

slice of pizza is a triangle shape. Each child beaded their own “shape necklace” using circle,

square and triangle shapes. The children did a wonderful job and were very proud to wear them home.

The class learned to recognize their names. They colored and identified the first letter of their names.

Some of our books of the week were; “Emily and Joe Letters”, “Shapes and colors”, “Pinkalicious” & “A Dog Needs a Bone”.

Our Shabbat Ima & Abba were Malka & Benny

Pre K

This week we continued our units on fall and colors. We looked at leaves collected by the children and using only red, yellow, blue, black and white paint we try to replicate the leaf color. The children had a great time experimenting. The results are hanging on our class bulletin board. This week's parsha is הרש ייח. The tenant, clouds and candles disappear from the tent after Sarah dies. Eliezer goes to find a wife for Yitzchak. Ask your child how he knew Rivka was the right wife for Yitzchak. When they got married the cloud, Challah and candles came back. This week we decorated the special Bracha for baking Challah and we baked delicious challah for you to enjoy for Shabbat. The English letter was Dd and the Hebrew letter was ד.

The following

parents have

donated a book

to the LIHA

Library in honor

of their

children’s

birthday…

Mr. & Mrs.

Marc Dorwitt

for Noach’s

birthday

Mr. & Mrs.

Ashir Pirouzian

for Yael’s

birthday

Mr. David

Soleimani & Ms.

Shula Ograd for

Jordana’s birthday

Kindergarten English

Tuesday was Election Day in our classroom. We voted for snack. The choices were cinnamon grahams or animal crackers. The grahams won by a majority 15 - 2. That was our snack that day

along with apples and oranges. We wrote our first short story. The story was about music class. First we began with a brief outline showing what happened first, next and last because every story has a

beginning, middle and end. This is the plot of a story. We then wrote our draft, then revised it and last made all the corrections needed.

We reviewed the initial and final sound of letter “t” while also learning vowel "e" and letter r. We continued to learn about nouns, (places and things) which are naming words. We learned about the

#7 in math and began learning about our five senses in science. Shabbat Shalom!

Kindergarten Hebrew

This week Kitah ׳א started a unit about םיעבצ (colors). The kids enjoy practicing the colors and making

sentences using the Hebrew name of the colors. In script we are up to letter י . We learned parasha ייח

gnikool rezeilE dna , yawa gnissap araS tuoba , שרהfor a wife for קחצי. Shabbat shalom.

1st Grade Hebrew – ‘

Kitah ׳א continued learning letters ז and .tpircs ni חThe kids are doing nicely with

writing in script. In vocabulary we continue with words related to רפס תיב (school). In parasha we Learned תשרפ learning how Avraham invited and ,וירא

loved guests. .שבת שלום

1st

Grade English

This week the first grade began learning doubles strategies in math. We also began making our sentence buddies. The students did a great job

recognizing what they need to write a good sentence. We are all really enjoying our smart board!

2nd

Grade English

2nd grade had another busy week. We began a new chapter in math, learned about different

communities, and continue to work on reading strategies. Please make sure your children are reading for 20 minutes and filling in the reading

logs every day. Shabbat Shalom!

2nd

Grade Hebrew

We are trying to reinforce the reading of our lovely םידלי: recognizing the letters, the nekoudots and we are working to put everything together.

The class is also practicing their writing skills. We are still working on the theme of רפס תיב and

using our ילש הארקמהfor that. We finished with the study ofהרש ייח תשרפ

3rd

Grade English

This week we began chapter 3 in math. This chapter is all about multiplication.

Please have your child go to my web page and click on useful links so that they can

practice their multiplication facts. The students also did a great job responding to

our story When Charlie McButton Lost Power by Suzanne Collins.

3rd

Grade Hebrew

We successfully finished the study of גי קרפ of ךל ךל תשרפ.

We enjoyed yummy munchkins to celebrate. You should be very proud of your kids .They learned how to work seriously and

independently. I am very happy to see happy faces and motivated םידימלת ready to learn.

We also begin to learn new vocabulary in שבת. הארקמה :tinU wen a nugeb evah eW .שלי And we have finished with the learning of הרש ייח תשרפ.

4th

Grade English

The fourth grade has read some exciting stories this week about what life was like in the 1800's. They are also doing a great job learning the different methods of multiplication.

4th

Grade Hebrew

In 4th grade Hebrew we learned sentence building, female singular/plural and had a spelling test.

In Humash Yosef went up from being a slave to being second in command after Pharoe, in all of the land of Egypt.

Parashat Vayerah – (Chayei Sara) Discussion about the life of Sara from the sacrifice of Issac through the finding of a wife for him.

Shabbat – we read the story about “Yosi and the Hallah bread” and answered questions about it.

5th

Grade English

Great News for 5th Grade - They earned a party!!! 5th grade had another busy week. We started working on decimals in math and continue improving our reading and writing skills. Please make sure your children are reading for 30 minutes

every night in addition to the book for Rabbi Readers. Have a great weekend. Shabbat Shalom!

5th

Grade Hebrew

The class is practicing Hebrew conversation everyday in a lot of

topics. We are also working hard on Hebrew grammar. On Chumash we

are learning Parashat Shemot.

-Morah Chaya