Today the students were given blank maps of Israel. They used several resources to label the major cities, bodies of water, regions and neighboring countries. After pooling our information on a large, blank classroom map, we set to work on a large puzzle of the map of Israel. Every student was given 5 pieces, and the class had to work cooperatively to put it all together. Our record time was a little over two minutes. Now that we are warmed up, on Tuesday, we'll work with an even larger version of the puzzle. It's 9 feet long and several feet wide. I think it will be a lot of fun. We'll also work on committing some of the most significant features of the map to memory, for a test at the end of the unit. During this time we'll also be studying Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem.
Today the Rabbi led a morning tefillah service for the older grades. After singing the Avot and Gevurot, he asked everyone to sit down. At the end of services, the Rabbi asked if there were any questions. 3 hands went up from our class with the same question : "Why didn't we do kedusha?"
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