3rd - 7th Grade Program
Primarily in these grades we focus on learning how to read Hebrew, prayers, and the students also have the opportunity to participate in the Junior Choir!
The celebrations vary by grade and include a music Tefillah service for our primary grades, breakfast with the Rabbi, third grade celebration of the students’ ability to read Hebrew, fourth grade naming ceremony, fifth grade Torah service.
Curriculum
Third Grade:
Reading of Hebrew words and prayers, Jewish holidays.
Texts: Shalom Uvrachah: The New Hebrew Primer (Print Edition) + CD, The Jewish Holiday Treasure Trail, AEMT Siduree
Fourth Grade:
Reading of Hebrew prayers, writing Hebrew script, introduction to Modern Hebrew, Jewish ethics.
Texts: Hineni Volume 1 + CD, Ulpan Alef and Bet, A Kid's Mensch Handbook, Script Writing Workbook, AEMT Siddur
Fifth Grade:
Reading of Hebrew prayers, continuation of Modern Hebrew, Israel.
Texts: Hineni Volume 2 + CD, Ulpan Bet, Welcome to Israel, AEMT Siddur
Sixth Grade:
Reading of Hebrew prayers, Jewish lifecycle. Texts: Hineni Volume 3 + CD, The Time of Our Lives, AEMT Siddur
Seventh Grade:
Modern Hebrew, Jewish ethics through Pirkei Avot, the Holocaust, Jewish Skills, Masoret (Rabbi Miller’s Class), and Mitzvot (Rabbi Bazeley’s Class).
Texts: Modern Hebrew Reader (created at AEMT using various sources), It’s A Mitzvah
6th Grade Retreat
Our 6th grade students spend a weekend of fun and Jewish learning at Camp Harlam in the Poconos with Rabbi Miller, Rabbi Bazeley, Cantor Ott, Heather Kibel, Lenny Haas, and Student Rabbi Adena Kemper.
It’s a time for students and staff to engage in serious text study, to create Jewish crafts, to sing, to socialize, and (hopefully) to go sledding (if it snows).
There will be a parent orientation on December 19, 2012 at 6:30pm where Rabbi Bazeley will go through the specifics of the weekend, as well as answer any questions you may have about the retreat.
Lilmod L'Aliyah
As students near the time of the Bar/Bar Mitzvah ceremony, it is especially important that they become an integrated part of the Temple's Shabbat community.
To that end, it is our expectation that all children in the 5th and 6th grades, accompanied by their families will attend at least six of the designated Friday night Lilmod L'Aliyah services per year. The services are chosen specifically to provide a range of liturgy, musical styles, and life-cycle events, to enable children and their families to become comfortable and confident participants in our Temple's Shabbat worship traditions.
Lilmod L'Aliyah
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