How Do We Pray?

Hebrew Homework Assignment

Students who take Hebrew with me are to create illustrations for the story "Yesh Li" - "I Have," which can be found here: Yesh Li.

You may either print out the pages and put your illustrations right on the page, or you may do your artwork on separate paper. Use the glossary at the end of the story to help understand what is happening on each page.

4th and 5th Grade Curriculum

Work continued on our video project about how we pray. The last few parent interviews have been conducted, and the kids and I have made some decisions on how we would like the final product to look. I hope to complete the editing by the end of the year. In the meantime, the students will be engaging in a related assignment that will serve as a compliment to the video.

We reviewed the story of Joseph and his brothers, and watched a video commentary on this week's Torah portion, "Vayigash," in which Joseph's brothers come to Egypt to find assistance during a famine. Joseph, who is now the second-in-command in Egypt, does not reveal his identity, and plays a trick on his brothers in what looks like a kind of revenge for their having thrown him in a well and left him for dead. Or maybe he was just trying to get them to acknowledge the wrong they had done to him? Unfortunately, time ran out before we could discuss the story much, but I invite you to watch the video and discuss the following questions with your children:

• Why didn't Joseph just tell his brothers his true identity right away? 
  
• How do we know that Joseph's brothers have understood the wrong they did to Joseph?
  
• Why does Joseph help his brothers after what they did to him?
  
• Do you have duties to your family? What are they?