Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho

Thanks to Mikaela, who presented a very thorough report on animals in Ancient Canaan.

In Hebrew we plodded ahead in our machberot and our new text books (see the last post.) Usually we review the morning prayers on Sundays, but since we don't have school on Sundays for the next three weeks we reviewed some of our prayers, and paused for some "syllabification." (Yes, I made up this word. I'll explain more when it's not so late.)

After recess and a fire drill, we plotted the Israelites' journey out of Egypt into Canaan (via Mt. Sinai) on our maps. The class then acted out a skit based on the story of Jericho, the first battle waged by the Israelites when they entered the land of Canaan. We listened to a CD of the spiritual Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho, which we'll try to learn to sing on Tuesday.

Have an easy fast to all of you who are fasting-

Morah Amy

New Books!

Thanks to Rosie, Josh and Jonah who had their reports on Ancient Canaan ready today. They presented interesting information about weaving, warfare and writing while the rest of us took notes.

Today we began our machberot - copy books for practicing Hebrew script.
We also began our new prayer textbook "Shalom Ivrit" level 2. We will use this book to study the text and meaning of the Shabbat Amidah.


After an extended recess in the sun, we reviewed the passages from the Torah that we studied on Thursday. We talked about how the Israelites must have felt just before they were to enter the land of Canaan. Why did God want them to fight and defeat so many nations? Was it fair to everyone involved? What did the Israelites need to do to distunguish themselves from the Canaanites?

We ended with another selection of the dvd "Walking the Bible". I love this show, originally aired on PBS. Here's a link:
http://www.pbs.org/walkingthebible/

I hope everyone had a joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Hope to see some comments from students and parents-

Morah Amy

Homework

I hope everyone brought home the homework assignment. I've asked each student to prepare a brief oral report on life in Ancient Canaan, based on the website below. Each student was assigned a different topic - e-mail me if you've forgotten yours.

http://www.museum.upenn.edu/Canaan/index.html

Reports are due Tuesday.

L'Shana Tova: September 21, 2006

Welcome to the my blog, dedicated soley to students and parents of students in Kitah Hay at CBI in Northampton. Here's where you can find out what we've been doing in school, and what you may have missed if you weren't in class.

So far this year, we've been studying the Hebrew calendar. Today we made calendars for the first month of the Hebrew year, Tishrei. Students wrote in the dates, month and year in Hebrew. On Tuesday we'll add days of the week and the many holidays that fall this month.

We've begun our unit on Israel by looking at the significance of the land of Israel in the Torah. Last week we read and discussed God's promises to Abraham, Issac and Jacob. Today we read about what God told the Israelites to expect when they finally enter Canaan after 40 years in the desert.

I hope this blog is helpful. I'll try to update it within 24 hours of class. I hope I'll see some of you at family services on Saturday.

L'shana Tova-
Morah Amy