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The Aliya Update Uplifting & Upcoming News from Yeshiva Darchei Aliya
Dec. 20, 2018
ט“ב טבת, תשע“י
פרשת ויחי
Vol. 2 Issue 13
DEALING WITH BEHAVIOR THE APD WAY
If we look hard enough, we will inevitably find an underlying
cause behind an attention-seeking behavior, an outburst, the
refusal to work, or a fight with a peer. This is accomplished by
asking questions. Is the work too easy or too hard? Is something outside of the
classroom bothering him? Is someone bothering him? Is he
currently struggling academically, socially, or emotionally? Is
there a pattern as to when the behavior occurs? Does it happen
with certain students? By certain subjects? What triggers the
behavior? Once we gain a better understanding of any underlying cause,
we can support the talmid in his area of need. We can also help
him to set aside inappropriate behaviors and supplant them with
appropriate alternatives. True story: Rav Pam zt”l was once proctoring a test in his yeshiva.
He saw that one of his talmidim was copying answers from
another student’s paper. His reaction? Calmly, he whispered in
the talmid’s ear, “If you are having trouble understanding the
questions, I will explain them to you.” This is a perfect example of
not condoning a behavior but, at the same time, being patient
and non-judgmental; guessing at its cause; and then offering the
talmid help. Another story: Rav Wolbe zt”l was once made aware of a bochur
in his yeshiva that was capturing bugs and torturing them to
death. The Mashgiach engaged the bochur in conversation and
discovered that the boy had never gotten past the premature
death of his mother. The odd and inappropriate behavior was an
expression of his emotional anguish. Rav Wolbe zt”l got the
bochur the help he needed. Again, a beautiful example of caring
instead of punishing; looking to decipher the underlying cause of
a behavior; and then providing help. TO BE CONTINUED...
Have a Wonderful Shabbos!
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Reminder
December 24-26
No busses
4:00 PM dismissal
All grades
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Dear Parents, ש“עמו
What a wonderful week we had in YDA! :נפלאות הבורא
This week we learned about the season were in– winter! We learned what we
see, feel and wear this season. We had a great time working collaboratively
creating a huge snowman which we proudly hung on our bulletin board. We
discussed the נפלאות הבורא, how each snowflake looks different. Each one is
unique and special in it’s own beautiful way. We compared this to the boys in our
class how each of us is different and is good at different things. But when we all
respect each other and work b’achdus we become a beautiful class just like the
snow looks beautiful when it is all together. ( We also mentioned the power of a
group like a minyan…) Of course each individual is beautiful on his own as well.
We used this chance to say something special about each boy in our class. We
then enjoyed making our own unique snowflakes.
:עשרה בטבת
In conjunction with this theme, עשרה בטבת we discussed how being nice to each
other will help rebuild the המקדש בית . We discussed how special the בית המקדש
was and we are trying to do many mitzvos and have אהבת ישראל to rebuild it. We
talked about what happened on עשרה בטבת and why we fast. Mommy, please
keep those mitzva bricks coming in so we can visualize how our mitzvos build
the בית המקדש.
Preschool Morah Hindy Meisels
Cutting our own unique snowflakes Our winter bulletin board
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Preschool Morah Hindy Meisels
Acting out the parsha
Working on the parsha project
:פרשה
We were all so excited to learn
the last פרשה in ספר בראשית and
have a very special siyum! The
boys enjoyed switching hands
like יעקב and to say המלאך הגואל.
We hope the boys will
internalize all the lessons we’ve
learned in ספר בראשית
and plan to review them many
times. חזק חזק ונתחזק !
Ezriel Goldfein on finishing !מזל טוב
the entire blue ספר הקריאה! Thank
you so much for the beautiful
homemade muffins in honor of the
May you continue shteiging !סיום
!מחיל אל חיל
Literature:
This week we enjoyed reading various different books on winter. We laughed as we acted out the words of our snow chant again and again. TTO: I am a little teapot… I am a little snowman short and fat, Here are my buttons, here is my hat When the sun comes out, I can’t play, I just slowly melt away.
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Preschool Morah Hindy Meisels
Ahron finger painting “snow” on a tree
Yehuda putting the right amount of buttons on the corresponding
snowman
Eliyahu working on a difficult multi-step math
snowman work
Dovi perfecting his pincer grasp and writing skills while tracing different
winter pictures
Ezriel, Aron, Dovi playing a snowman ‘bingo’ game
Shloimy ‘building’ snowflakes using q-tips and following a pattern
Enjoying work cycle, doing various different winter works in all areas.
Dipping the yadayim into yellow paint
The review game from י-א
:קריאה
This week we learned the little
young yud! We had a ball playing a א review game with yellow yarn. We -י
then had an amazing sensory
experience dipping our yadayim in
yellow paint and using it for our
parsha project.
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Grade 1 Rabbi Miller
Dear Parents, ש“עמו ה“ב And !שלום עליכם we had a fun week with lots of learning and of course our favorite learning חומש!
ה“ב the boys are learning well! Areas of accomplishments for this week are: ברכת of טיישט We learned and discussed the :תפילה אשר נתן לשכוי בינה, שלא עשני גוי, שלא עשני עבד of השחר We reviewed the blue banner past tense :לשון תורהsuffixes. works enhancing קריאה Boys worked on :קריאהdifferent קריאה rules. Please make sure your son does his homework each night. .יז‘ new packet ,א‘- ט“ז We reviewed packets :מילים we learned this week are how one מצוות The :תרי“גshould be תמים– complete with ה‘ and not turn to other sources. לחבר, לדרש, לעונן לקסם,,לנחש . Timeline: We learned how we as a class of YDA
learning and living Hashem’s torah is in Hashem’s plan as ד“בס He will bring משיח very soon! אמן! script כתיב נכון א‘ The boys are finishing their :כתיבה
ב-א books. Work cycle: The boys are working with materials enhancing their skills bringing them to a new level. and גלות מצרים living in יעקב We learned about :פרשה
to be יעקב and how important it was that ברכת יעקבburied in י“א in the מערת המכפלה. פסוקים We of course reviewed our previous :חומשand learned the טיישט of ג“י-‘פסוקים ט of יום שלישי. Really it’s amazing that ה“ב the boys טיישט the פסוקים to rebbe! a few פרק א‘ פסוקים א‘-י“ג on גירסא We did : גירסאtimes over. עשרה בטבת We learned about the fast of :עניני דיומאabout עזרא הסופר, תלמי המלך, נבוכדנצר sending נבוזראדן to destroy the בית המקדש. We learned about צדקיהו .ירמיהו הנביא and מלך ישראלSongs: ...בלבבי משכן אבנה חזק חזק ונתחזק!
ן שבת,‘גוט י.א. מיללער‘ ר
Shimi working on his milim and shoroshim
Aron and Yosef Shalom working on yellow
banner suffixes
Avi working on yachid/rabbim zachar/nekeiva
Dear Parents, ש“עמו
Teaching first grade is a lesson in אמונה. The first few months we’re busy
planting seeds; we’re learning routine, new concepts, teaching, and developing
skills. It’s weeks and even months of relentless practice and reinforcement. And
then somehow, it all comes together. You see a group of boys who through the
many independent skills they have painstakingly acquired, are now able to own
their knowledge. They can independently transition from one subject matter to
the next, understand instructions, ask for guidance, assist each other, and truly
be masters over themselves. They each determine the pace of their own
learning, and the level of independence that they can handle. The relationship
between the teacher/Rebbi and student is a matter of checks and balances,
rather than preacher/listener.
In math, the boys have completed the unit on ordinal numbers and are working
with double digits numbers and are now working until 20.They understand the
concept of digits, can look at a number and determine its amount in tens of units,
and can also compare numbers within 20.
They boys are working through their phonics books at a rapid, yet individual
pace. Some boys are finishing to practice the ‘Ruling Rs’, others are learning
about the different words and rules in multi-syllable words, while others yet are
reading chapter books and building vocabulary and comprehension skills
through that. Many boys have started the spelling /phonics program called
‘Words their Way’. It’s a separate program that reinforces the phonics rules that
they have learned.
The boys are doing a ‘Sentence of the Day’ which reinforces handwriting,
phonics/spelling as well a s basic grammar rules they have been introduced to.
The level of responsibility here is individual determined according to each
students stamina and/or academic level. The boys have also learned more
science and map skills, but more about that next week.
Have a wonderful Shabbos. Morah Posner
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Grade 1 Morah Posner
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Grade 2 Rabbi Sabbagh
Dear Parents, ש“עמו
Some of our accomplishments this week:
!Davening is something to be proud of in this class :תפילה
.every day of the week פרק on a גירסא We did :גירסא
We worked on writing script letters neatly and :ּכתיבה
clearly and we focused on perfecting the script letter ל‘ .
In חומש: Working through פרק כ“א this week.
Each boy studied a packet of 12 words each day :מילים
with Rabbi Rietti’s cards. In addition, they reviewed the
previous day’s words with a quick domino review.
.Practice is the key to succeed in reading fluently :קריאה
These boys are practicing daily.
We learned through the whole parsha with the :פרשה
wonderful new book that summarizes each pasuk. We
went through the picture cards as well.
All the skills the boys have developed are :לשון התורה
really coming to life when we learn לשון התורה.
Each boy gets a packet of ten mitzvos every day is :תרי“ג
tested and reviews the ten mitzvos received the day
before.
Timeline: Uncovered the sixth layer of many layers of the
timeline. This has been so amazing, it makes the Torah so
real and tangible. We learned all about the history of the
fast and watched a short video presentation that brought
.to life עשרה בטבת
Good Shabbos,
Rabbi Sabbagh
Hillel and Moshe davening beautifully
Enjoying the recess break
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Grade 2 Miss Tenenbaum
Dear Parents, ש“עמו
A peek into the second grade classroom…
Let’s take a look at our daily schedule. We love routine, so this is how we
begin our day:
We start with perfecting our handwriting, specifically numbers, and we
are making tremendous strides! Then we take a walk to our colorful
calendar. After filling in the date and singing our song, we sharpen our
brains with five minutes of Mental Math. Then we begin our new math
lesson of the day. We began a new chapter in math this week on the topic
of measurements. Once we understood the concept of measures, we
understood the need for an appropriate measurement tools. We began
discussing meters and centimeters, measuring our desks in centimeters
and our classroom using meters!
Math is over so we need to rejuvenate with a few minute break of fresh
air, and a healthy game of soccer! Refreshed, we come back to class,
bright and eager to learn again. After recess, we have a varied schedule,
which makes it all the more exciting! For example this week, on Monday
we reviewed rules of subjects and predicates in a sentence and usage
rules. We also had quiet sustained reading. When each of us delighted in
our own book. We then went on to map skills where we learned how to
read a map using a key on the bottom. On Wednesday, we discussed the
difference between main ideas and details; and worked on our reading
comprehension. Thursday we worked on Phonics in “Words Their Way,”
with long and short “a” sounds. We also learned “News on the Run!” We
love learning current events and we try to apply the news to our lives.
When we learned about the man who returned the wallet, and discussed
“Hashovas Aveida.” We also learned about “Chesed” when we read about
the man who gave up his first class seat on a plane to a mom and her
sickly baby!
The last eight minutes of our chock–full day is dedicated to clean up,
(because we cannot learn properly in a dirty classroom), packing up, and
if we work quickly, we still have a few minutes to hear a fascinating book
being read! After that we are ready for dismissal.
Glad to share our daily schedule with all of you!
Have a Great Shabbos,
Miss Tenenbaum
Shaya working on reading comprehension
Lazer working on spelling words
Momo measuring with paper clips
Playing a fun math game
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Dear Parents, ש“עמו
MATH
We’re finally coming to an end of chapter two! This week we
finished off by working on more complicated problem-solving
examples. We had the boys practice until they were familiar
with the concept. We also had a review on the whole chapter to
prepare us for the math test that will take place next week.
CURSIVE WRITING
For the letter ‘j’ we enjoyed a treat from ‘J’erusalem . Then the
boys perfected their script letters. For the letter ‘p’ we had
Shlomo give out delicious chocolate ‘pillows’ and then the boys
got the ‘privilege’ to ‘play’ ‘ping pong’ in Morah timing.
SOCIAL STUDIES
A real globe was brought into our classroom. The boys were
able to see the difference between a globe, map, and satellite
image. We reviewed the signs on a compass (N, S, W, E ) and
what they stand for. We played a game to help them remember
where each direction is in real life.
READING
We keep practicing the strategy of main idea and details . This
way the boys will have an easier time summarizing a story.
They will be able to differentiate what is a main idea and not get
stuck in all of its details.
Good Shabbos, Miss Jacobowitz
Grade 3 Miss Jacobowitz
Ari with the treat
from Jerusalem
Learning social studies
Playing ‘ping pong’
Shlomo introducing
the letter ‘p’
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Intermediate Boys Rabbi Touretski
Dear Parents, ש“עמו
B”H we had another productive week of
learning in our IB class!
In חומש: We are advancing in פרשת תזריע.The
boys are learning about the סימני טומאה of
.צרעת
In משניות: The boys are doing חזרה on the third
is מסכתא That part of the .מסכת סוכה of פרק
talking about various דינים of the מינים‘ ד .
Our work cycle period keeps going strong.
The boys get to choose which skill they will be
working upon every day. In the end of the
period they record their work in the special
Achrayus Log.
I would like to thank everyone for their
generous gifts and beautiful notes. May we
continue to see much nachas from the boys.
Looking forward to another exciting week,
ה“בעז .
Gut Shabbos,
Rabbi Touretski Working on
chumash sheets
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Upper Boys Rabbi Gildengorn
Dear Parents, ש“עמו
It’s been just a blast of a week! It has been an eventful week with the boys hard at work
learning תורה. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual
from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” – Anonymous In גמרא: We continued to plunge deeper into the beautiful depths of מסכת מכות in פרק אלו הן
ר“זרק אבן לרה on סוגיא We have just finished with the .הגולין on דף ח‘ . What is the level of
negligence to be considered a אשפה? What is the חידוש of “סותר כותלו”? How does an
-Ask our up-and ?הלכה evaluate the balance necessary for ר' פפא help? How does אשפה
coming למדים.
In מסילת ישרים:We have continued our exploration of 'פרק א. We discussed the ever
important ideas: Why did 'ה create עולם הבא before עולם הזה? What is the purpose of
the מצוות? Where is our opportunity to do the מצוות? Do we prioritize a corridor? Ask
our future בעלי מוסר about the beautiful משל about the island of jewels.
In הלכה: The have been working tirelessly in combing through the הלכות of תענית and שבת.
Ask our boys about: What are the הלכות of a 1 :תענית דיבור) Who fasts? 2) When does the fast
start? 3) May one wash on a fast? 4) May one brush one’s teeth on a fast? 5) What is the קריאת
?effected by a fast תפילה What is the rule for medications? 7) How is (6 ?התורה
Have a great שבת!
Rabbi Moshe Gildengorn
Enjoying a special breakfast for our shacharis program
the boys have begun ברוך ה'
developing in תפילה. It is my pleasure
to say that both by ,שחרית and מנחה our
boys made an outstanding 'קידוש ה.
Each one davened beautifully trying to
connect to the רבונו של עולם in his own
way. A few people even came over to
me after to compliment how our boys
behaved. 'ברוך ה we have begun
building our second pillar of עבודה.
May we be זוכה to see our efforts
produce fine בני תורה!
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Dear Parents, ש“עמו
Melamed Academy is loaded with different
subjects each offering a unique learning
experience. In order to familiarize you with what
the children are learning and share the boys
experiences we will be interviewing one boy
each week on a topic that he has covered. This
week, we will be taking a look at typing with Avi
Blush.
Avi is one of the top in the class when it comes to
typing. Typing is a crucial skill to have when
dealing with computers. Therefore, we instituted
that the first 15 minutes of the day is dedicated to
building the boys typing skills.
“There is a real fun program that develops the
typing skills one letter at a time. It starts out with
a video for each lesson that explains exactly how
and where to place your fingers. Next, you
practice and at all times there is a keyboard with
a set of virtual hands showing you how to move
around. The program keeps track of your words
per minute, accuracy percentage and how long
you’ve spent typing. The boys are always setting
records for themselves and the raising the bar by
beating their high score.”
-Based on an interview with Avi Blush.
Melamed Academy Rabbi Sabbagh