This week, the students were greeted with a "To Do" list on the board, with a set of tasks to complete. The To Do list will change every day, but it's class fixture. It allows me to maximize our productivity, while grappling with the reality that not everyone will arrive on time. (But please, please, try to arrive on time!)
We took out the siddurim (prayer books) from Kitah Bet, and tried to review the prayers students had learned in past years and introduce them to new members of the class. We'll spend the first weeks of school reviewing, before introducing any new prayers.
Next we studied the same text from Pirkei Avot that parents were discussing in the meeting.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?
I asked the students to create mini-skits to demonstrate either the first line or the second line, and had the rest of the class guess which part of the text they were acting out. We also began to learn the song "Im Ein Ani Li, Mi Li?" whose lyrics are the Hebrew text of the same quote.
After recess, we began our first chapter book read aloud, All of a Kind Family, by Sydney Taylor. It's one of my favorite Jewish books. We then attended the assembly and picnic, which you already know all about, since you were there.
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