Ganon Aleph Celebrates Yom Yerushalayim

To celebrate Yom Yerushalayim on Wednesday, the children in Ganon Aleph enjoyed a barbecue along with the rest of the school.  Due to the inclement weather, the barbecue was held indoors.  Back in our classroom, we enjoyed a delicious cake for dessert in the shape of the Israeli flag.  We added Hallel to our tefillah, sang some songs about Yerushalayim with Morah Roberta, and talked a little about the history of Yerushalayim.  The children learned that after the Beit Hamikdash was destroyed, we lost Yerushalayim for a very long time, until we won her back on the 28th of Iyar in 1967.  This is the date we celebrate Yom Yerushalayim because we are so happy to have her back!  After learning that the Kotel is the only remainder of all the walls which surrounded the Beit Hamikdash, we created a Kotel for our classroom towards which the children face every day when we daven.  They also made their own "Mizrach" pictures to hang at home as a reminder of which direction to face when they daven!

Tefillah Continued

We are in the process of making our Siddurim. We are using many different materials to enhance our Siddur. This makes the tefillot more meaningful and come to life when we daven to HaShem each day. We have learned the Aleph Bet and practice reading Hebrew words each day.The children are eager to use their Siddur and say the Brachot with extra kavanah. They are also excited to work on each new page and sing the songs of the davening. The children are looking forward to completing their Siddur and using it for the rest of the year.

Ganon Aleph's Celebration of Chesed

Ganon Aleph has a chesed jar into which the children put jelly beans every time they do a mitzvah or an act of chesed.  When the jar is filled halfway, the children are rewarded with a popcorn party.  When the jar is filled to the top, we have an ice cream party.  (Nothing beats  some tasty motivation to encourage positive behavior!)  After reaching the top last week, we celebrated with an ice cream party this morning.  Kol hakavod to the children of Ganon Aleph for all of the chesed, mitzvot, good davening, and great clean-ups they have 
been doing!

Ganon Aleph tefilla

Dynamite Davening !!!

Tefilla is an integral part of our daily routine in each class at Yavneh Academy.

If you would like, please use this special video to daven with your Ganon Aleph child.

http://youtu.be/BwESA_8HPzc

Yerushalayim Shel Zahav

After learning that Yerushalayim is called the "City of Gold", the children painted golden bricks for the model of the Kotel we now have in our classroom. They took turns inserting "kvitlach" between the bricks with special thoughts they wanted to share with Hashem. Now when we daven, we face East towards our Kotel and Yerushalayim!