BH. Shvat
17, 5778 / February 2, 2018
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Candle-Lighting: Community Newsletter of the Maimonides Hebrew Day School of the Capital District 4:52 404 Partridge Street Albany NY 12208 (518) 453-9363/3434 www.maimonidesschool.org Shabbat Ends: produced by Rabbi Mendel Rubin & students in the TNT (Torah ‘n Technology) Program 5:55 Maimonides is accredited by the NYS Board of Regents & is a beneficiary of UJF-NENY
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MAZAL TOV FIRST TEFILLINS This past Monday two of our 7th graders put on Tefillin for the first time in preparation for their upcoming Bar-Mitzvahs. Mazal Tov to Nesanel S. and Menachem S. and their families! All our davening boys went to participate at the Shteeble, and there was a very lavish and delicious spread after davening.
This MC is dedicated for a speedy recovery to our teachers and students out sick and in thanks to all who substituted for an excellent week of learning at school
ACTION PICS WITH SENIORS High School Girls are working on an album of pictures with children doing all kinds of things with seniors, from Mitzvahs to walks, games to cooking. There will be a contest with prizes! Speak to Rabbi Yossi or the HS girls with any questions or further details.
NOW U SEE IT, NOW U DON’T! Nursery students are making a 4-page folded booklet about growth “from seed to tree” for Tu Bishvat. These two students are displaying their first page of the booklet. On left all you see is the brown earth (paper) on bottom of the page. On right, if you unfold the brown paper (i.e. open up the earth) you will see the black oval seed buried within, hiding inside!
FIRST PARSHA! Second graders with Morah Devorah Leah finished the whole Parsha Breishis, their first Parsha of Chumash… now they are moving onto Parsha Noach!
TU BISHVAT HAIKUS This picture (not of the 2nd graders, taken at Tu Bishvat breakfast—see A PERSON IN TIME AND PLACE page 2) highlights the This online computer program allows students 2nd grade Haikus they to place “a person” at any place on earth, at wrote about Tu Bishvat any time of the year, to visualize the position in Mrs. Mattice’s English class about the of the sun relative to earth with many relevant “Shkaydia” song they learned in Hebrew class. earth science calculations. They each took measurements at summer & winter equinoxes, PLANTS IN SCIENCE CLASS and the fall and spring solstices, from the north pole to the south, even from Albany NY Just in time for Tu Bishvat! Mrs. and a choice of random dates throughout the Maher’s 4/5 science students learned about xylem and phloem, taproots and fibrous year. Indeed, Torah texts speak of “Olam root systems, photosynthesis and more! (place), Shana (time) & Nefesh (person).