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| Solomon Schechter School of Queens
Week of June 12, 2008
Looking Ahead
Regents Schedule for 8th Graders
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Curriculum Fair The Middle
School curriculum fair was redesigned this year to help promote more skills for
the students. The sixth grade fair set the introductory tone with the
traditional display board presentation. The children chose topics from the
language arts and decorated the boards with relevant materials. Some of the
projects included the topics of Harry Potter, Doctor Seuss, the Beatles, Grimm’s
fairy tales, baseball poems, Coca Cola, and others. The seventh grade projects
revolved around the theme of Judaic Studies, and were presented in a format of
the fine arts, as you will see described below by the students. The eighth grade
projects which will be presented next week revolve around Social Studies and
Science, and will be presented in some technology format.
Every year Jerusalem Day is different because Jerusalem itself grows and develops to new heights. We must appreciate all what our generation has today that previous generations couldn’t have even imagined. Jerusalem builds on the old and continually updates and expands. As any tourist who goes to Jerusalem discovers, new stores, restaurants, malls, sport centers, and roads appear every day. Many structures remain the same, but more things are continually added or moderated. One of the real amazing things about Jerusalem is that the original buildings that have been there for thousand of years still stand. You feel connected to your ancestors, knowing you’re touching a wall that the king of your ancestors touched. Jerusalem is a place every Jew should visit. To me Judaism is about having a Bar Mitzvah, and putting on Tefillin in the morning. Judaism isn’t complete without visiting Jerusalem and the Kotel, since it is the best place to go when you want to feel close to God or you want to ask God for good health. - By Shenhav Shoshani 8B
On Yom Yerushalayim the Tzofim came to our school. They came from Israel to entertain. Their performance was constructed of Israeli songs, mostly about Israel, that they sung and danced to. During the performance, some of the Tzofim came off the stage and pulled the students out from the crowd. They danced with them, and spun them around, then returned them to their seats. The Tzofim had many different costumes and changed with every song. At the end of the performance, everyone joined the Tzofim in singing the Israeli National Athem. Everyone enjoyed the Tzofim’s visit. - By Phoebe Rubinstein 5B On Jerusalem Day, the Israeli Tzofim came to our school to perform. While the Tzofim were perfornung for Pre-K through fourth grade, everyone in my classroom was whispering to each other about how we were going to see the performance in only 25 minutes. We looked at the clock continuously until we were called down. When we fmally came downstairs we sat down and waited for Mr. Mayerson to introduce the Tzofim. I noticed that a screen was being lowered, and a projector was being set up. As soon as Mr. Mayerson finished talking, the projector turned on and started playing a video. The video introduced the Tzofim individually. When the movie was finished, all of the Tzofim from the video came from the back of the stage, and they started singing and dancing. Everyone sang along and had fun watching the Tzofim dance, and many times, the Tzofim would come off the stage and pick someone to dance with them for a few seconds. We then jump back on stage and continued dancing with the group. After every song, either a girl or boy would come before the rest of the Tzofim did, and talk about the song coming up. Everybody really enjoyed watching the Tzofim. We all had a great time. I hope they come again next year. - By Ori Bitter 5A The Israeli Day Parade
The Israeli day Parade is celebrated every year. Lots of groups from different schools and synagogues attend the parade. This year there were a lot of groups. When we arrived from our bus ride we walked to a waiting area until we were called to step off to the parade. When we began marching, we were very happy. There were announcers along the path, and whenever we were called we were all cheering and getting all excited. - By Sherrie Feldman 5A Book of Memories Recently class 5A has been working on a project called Book of Memories. We wrote a series of chapters about our lives. We wrote about our heritage and our early life. We have also written about our recent life and our future hopes. We did many fun things while writing our Book of Memories. We are creating webs that state our future hopes and possible future challenges in words and pictures. For the final chapter we will add a mind map. A mind map, shows what you want in your life or what happened in your life. It’s a fascinating process and a lot fun. Writing this has been a great experience for us. We learned a lot about our heritage, and family history that we never knew. We also talked about all our wishes and hopes for the future. Some things we wrote in our Book of Memories we never thought of before. These Books of Memories will be cherished for the rest of our lives. When we grow up we can look at them and realize how much we’ve changed. They will be like gateways to our past. - By Michael Niamehr and Daniel Kopeloff, 5A
SOLOMON SCHECHTER SCHOOL OF QUEENS LITTLE LEAGUE & T-BALL Our Schechter Little League team wrapped up the regular season with an impressive 5 and 3 record. We won 2 and lost only one in our last three games. In the first of those three games, Jordan Brandwein led us to victory. He was the winning pitcher, allowing no earned runs, and getting four hits, including two doubles, scoring three times and driving in two runs. The Langer brothers also came through. Tomer drove in three runs with two hits and a bases-loaded walk. Guy drove in two runs and stopped a rally of the other team by making a magnificent diving catch of a short pop fly at first base In the second game, played in the rain, Arie Spiel once again dominated as starting pitcher, adding 8 more strikeouts to his season total of 41 and lowering his ERA to 2.79, on the way to shutting out the opposition. He was also impressive at the plate by lacing a bases-clearing triple for 3 rbis. Tsvi Weil added two more rbis in the first. And Jacob Wasserman drove in two runs with his second triple of the year. But the play of the game was the inning-ending, game-ending, first-of-the-season unassisted double play orchestrated by Rami Chazan. In our last game, we played the toughest team in the league, an undefeated Great Neck team. Arie held them to only one unearned run in four innings and we had the lead, at 2-1 after five. Brendon Colby and David Grodenchik scored those runs. But a bad call by the ump and an untimely walk allowed Great Neck to score 3 times in the top of the last inning. Our team battled back valiantly, but scored only one in the bottom of the frame. Highlights included Arie’s 10 Ks, for a season total 51 strikeouts in 23 ⅓ innings, Tsvi Weil’s seven-game hitting streak and Jacob Wasserman’s perfect 0.00 ERA in five games pitching in relief. Playoffs start June 15. Let’s root on our Schechter team and our coaches, Assa Langer, Alan Wasserman and Mayet Brandwein. Lag BaOmer Picnic By Isabel Bass and Emma Rubinstein, 7B
The Lag BaOmer picnic this year was extremely worthwhile and exciting! Many kids talked with each other, ate food, and played sports. We personally had an amazing day in the sun and the weather was great. We interviewed kids from various grades about the Lag BaOmer picnic and these were their responses:
Levi 5B: The minute we came to the park, we set up for the picnic and then we set up our own soccer court out
The Lag BaOmer picnic was so much fun! News from
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