BASI L'GANI Ma'amar 2, 1978

Info & Updates 1/12/18

BLESSED are the CRACKS January 12, 2018 By Rabbi Yossie Denburg “Blessed are the cracked,” said Groucho Marx, “for they let in the light.” Jewish history agrees, for what is history if not a dark world slowly becoming a receptive channel for G-d’s light. This explains the age-old query: If we are all G-d’s children (and we are) and He is merciful (and He is), why 10 plagues? True the Egyptians were wicked, and the Israelites needed to be freed, but couldn’t G-d have found a ‘nicer’ way?

Guests Welcome Here EC-B is learning all about Avraham. Look at the amazing tent they built to welcome all their guests just like Avraham did! #hebrewacademycs #ruthecohanearlychildhoodcenter #jewishpreschool #tent #avrahamavinu #jewisheducationinsouthflorida #welcome #beourguest

Our flowers are BLOOMING! Our students have worked hard planting in our garden, and the fruits of their labor are paying off. Our first sunflowers are beginning to bloom! It's perfect gardening weather in South Florida and so we make sure that our students get to appreciate all the beauty the world has to offer. #hebrewacademycs #preschool #ruthecohanearlychildhoodcenter #vpk #southflorida #floridawinter #nature #garden #planting #beautiful

A MAGICAL PARSHA PRESENTATION As part of our program to bring the parsha to life, the First Grade girls participated in a parsha "magic show" with magician and phenomenal teacher Morah Chaya! The class witnessed water turned to blood, and watched falling ice on fire, and other amazing tricks. The girls croaked like frogs to give a sense of how loud and annoying it must have been. And they roared like different animals. How scary it must have been for the Egyptians! Bnai Yisroel wasn't afraid though.

BASI L'GANI Ma'amas 1978

A PARENT PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR SCHOOL Last night our parent body braved the harsh elements of a South Florida Winter to come to school. Hebrew Academy hosted a mid year review and Open House. The purpose was to give parents an understanding of the curriculum their children have been learning as well as their goals for the rest of the year. It was a great for parents to touch base with their children's teachers as well as other parents. Equally as important, just by going back to school it showed the students how invested their parents are in their education. The school administration stressed the value of parent input and parent partnership as the key to success of our school. Dr. Botwinick unveiled the new Homework Policy that has been established as a direct result of the suggestions from parents. #parentsforthewin

Find your Tu'Bshvat Rhythm Morah Danit joined us today for a Tu'Bshvat Drum Circle. It's always amazing to see how rhythm comes so naturally to young students. Fun activities like this help improve our fine motor skills, help foster team work and following a pattern. #hebrewacademycs #earlychildhoodeducation #drumcircle #rhythm #music #tubshevat #trees drumroll #jewishholiday #fun #preschoolmusic

3rd Grade tells THEIR STORY The 3rd Graders have been working on their Biography unit. This including reading biographies, dressing up as the characters in the stories, and presenting them to the class. Meet Hellen Keller, Reb Eliyahu Simpson, and Anne Frank. #hebrewacademycs #3rdgrade #reading #biography #truestory #theirlife #famouspeople #rolemodels #jewisheducation #english

SUPER SUNDAY… GIVE to GET! HACS parents, older students and staff always come out in large numbers to raise money for local Jewish causes. This 2015 picture shows our HACS team which won $1,000 from the Jewish Federation for being the largest group involved. WE CERTAINLY CAN WIN AGAIN! So this Sunday join us in helping the Jewish community flourish, like our very own HEBREW ACADEMY who this year is receiving $55,000 from Federation. Call (954) 978-6341 or e-mail c.stav@hebrewacademy.org and tell us that you'll join us this Sunday from 10:00-1:00 or 1:30-4:00.

HOW DO YOU CONTAIN YOUR INNER MONSTER? In the Interdisciplinary Arts class our first graders have recently completed an exciting unit based on the story ' Michael's Monster'. Michael was a little boy who was being bullied because he couldn't catch. He just gave up and said he 'CAN'T' and went and sat in the corner of the playground. An imaginary monster - a Can't-a-sorous - grew in his mind. At the end of the story he stands up to the monster and tells it he CAN do things - lots of things and what's more he is even going to learn to catch! The monster disappears. We discussed many of the valuable messages of the story! Never give up - try and try again! Don't copy - be creative - everyone has their own imagination. Don't bully someone because they struggle, help them! Everyone has strengths and we are all different! Don't say "I can't!" The story led to many exciting activities: We learned that we can move creatively and make interesting sounds when we each became a 'Can't -a- sorous' ! We learned how we can physically work together with others to form an interesting creature with our bodies when we joined with others to form a single creature! We learned how to create dialogue when we were put into groups to enact the story. We learned about Public Speaking - how to stand, how to hold our hands, how to speak loudly and clearly when describing and answering questions about the Can't-a-sorous that we drew for the class. We learned about recycling and the need to reuse whatever we can to save our environment when creating our recycled Cant-a-sorous craft monsters. We were encouraged to think about our strengths and what we were good at when building our cage for the monsters with I CAN bricks.