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Message from Rabbi Yamin Levy

LIHA Rabbi

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High Holiday Shiur with Rabbi Levy:

In Great Neck Monday Evening

October 10th

In Queens Sunday October 9th

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It is hard to describe how wonderful it is

to be around LIHA everyday with our

amazing students, staff and every so often

parents who come and visit. There is an

amazing energy of learning and positive

spirit throughout the school.

One of the highlights is our Tefilah

program led by Rabbi Aziz, which is a

huge success. Parents please visit our

website at http://www.lihagn.org and have

the kids listen to the video of Rabbi Aziz

reciting the Shema Yisrael.

This week’s Perasha addresses a topic that

in almost all other areas of life we deem

obvious but when it comes to Torah and

Mitzvoth we raise our eyebrows as if it is

strange.

Moshe Rabbenu is clear when he speaks

about the consequences of observing

Hashem’s commandments and not

observing them. One choice leads to

blessing, while the other results in some

pretty horrible stuff.

Permit me to suggest that consequences in

life are positive and give meaning to our

every action.

Imagine for a moment I live without

regards to consequences and stay up all

night, every night, or spend money without

regard, or I betray relationships without

consideration and expect that nothing bad

will happen? This is foolish.

Do we really desire such an existence? An

existence in which our choices and

decisions make no difference to how our

lives turn out? Of course not! Life would

be empty and utterly meaningless.

The fact that our actions, and our choices

have consequence makes life meaningful

and worth living.

Sharyn Blaustein Volume 23

Principal Issue 2

September 23, 2016

Elul 20, 5776

Rabbi Yamin Levy

LIHA Rabbi

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THE VOICE OF OUR CHILDREN A WEEKLY PUBLICATION

Yoel Shakiban

Liat Partovi

Elizabeth Tehrani

Sara Keypour

Jonathan Bilgoray

Ariella Farahnik

Taylor Ebrahim-Hakkak

Rina Balakaneh

Orelle Zuri-Shaday

Shira Baybachaiov

Symone Yaakovzadeh

Take A Look At LIHA

Toddler

Hello Toddler Mommy’s! We had a great second week. This week we learned the color red. We painted red apples. We started working on our book for the holidays. Can’t wait for next week! Shabbat Shalom

Nursery

We are happy to say the children are adjusting and learning the class routine, making new friends and playing with lots of toys. The children are learning about the holiday of Rosh Hashana the apples we dip in honey and the sounds of Shofar. Some of our special books of the week were: “Apples and Honey”, “Who Took the Cookie from the Cookie Jar”, “Magic Art” and Snappy Colors”. Our Shabbat Ima & Abba were Aviva & Benjamin

Pre K

The focus of our week was the letter A for Apples Apples Apples! We tasted red, yellow and green apples and graphed our favorite ones. We cut apples in half and noticed the hidden star inside with seeds. We used the apples to stamp with paint and matched pompom apples on apple trees.. We learned the letter A in our notebooks and we are so proud of all the children who have been working so hard on their homework. We also focused on the first letter of our names and traced them with stickers. We cant wait to see what next week brings with the letter B and BZZ BZZ Bees. Shabbat Shalom

The following

parents have

donated a book

to the LIHA

Library in honor

of their

children’s

birthday…

Mr. & Mrs.

Marc Dorwitt

for Noach’s

birthday

Mr. & Mrs.

Ashir Pirouzian

for Yael’s

birthday

Mr. David

Soleimani & Ms.

Shula Ograd for

Jordana’s birthday

Kindergarten English

"We are So Proud," is a book about a class working together to prepare a float for a parade to celebrate our nation. We worked on the setting of a story which is where a story takes place. Clapping as we say different words help us know how many parts a word has (syllables). In math we are working on # 5. The computers in our classroom are working and as of Thursday almost everyone had the opportunity to work on the computer in Language Arts. Shabbat Shalom and have a nice weekend.

Kindergarten Hebrew

Shalom to everyone! The children are getting better at the "TEFILAH" that we do in the class room. Thank you for remembering to put on tzitzit and kippah on your sons!! This week we learned another letter: Bet ( ) and the words were:

Booba(doll ), Bayit (house ), and Bat (daughter ).

We continue our Rosh Hashana project, learned a new song, and did painting and coloring!! Our this week were Shira & Aviad

1st

Grade English

This week the first grade has been working very hard. In math, we learned how to make models to get the sum. We also learned that when you change the addends the sum stays the same. The students have also worked hard learning how to write sentences. They all are doing a great job!

1st Grade Hebrew – ‘

The kids heard the Shofar blown by rabbi Levy now that we are in the month of .

We are learning about the upcoming holiday of . How we greet each other in

Hebrew, the name of the special food we eat at the table in Hebrew, and making sentences using the new words we learned. We continue practicing reading sounds and letters together, and practiced in script the letters and . Shabbat Shalom

2nd

Grade English

This week the 2nd grade has learned how to use different science tools to find out information. In math they are almost done with unit 1 and will be taking a test next week. I am so proud of their hard work!

2nd

Grade Hebrew

We are getting to know each other and learning to write together. We are also learning about the upcoming holiday, Rosh Hashana. Shabbat Shalom!

3rd

Grade English

This week the third grade learned how to use many different strategies to answer 2 and 3 digit addition number sentences in math. We reviewed long and short vowels as well as nouns in reading. We also began our social studies book. We learned 4 new vocabulary words that we added to our personal dictionaries. We had a great week!

3rd

Grade Hebrew

This week we finished learning about Rosh Hashana and started learning about the next holiday Yom Kipour. In the “Hacham L’Chumash we finished studying Zacher (male) and Nekeva (female) and about yachid (singular) and rabin (plural). Next week we are starting to learn Shorashim (the roots of Hebrew words). I am so proud to see how fast the children are learning and enjoying themselves as I do teaching them. Shabbat Shalom Morah Simcha

4th

Grade English

The 4th grade has had a great week. We’ve been reviewing place, value and rounding in math and we’ve read a realistic fictional story called, “Because of Winn Dixie”. They also just had their first test as fourth graders.

4th

Grade Hebrew

The class is ready for Rosh Hashana. They learned all the food Brachot and the prayer for Rosh Hashana. We also learned the dinim for the holidays. We started Parashat Miketz in Chumash.

5th

Grade English

The 5th grade has begun to learn about the 3 different branches of government. They are enjoying learning about how the laws are decided and how our government works. We also are reviewing multiplication in math and behan a novel called, “Number the Stars”.

5th

Grade Hebrew

5th grade had an excellent week this week! We furthered our work in mastering Taamim as well as continuing our learning in Elul and Rosh Hashana. Our Talmidat Hashavua was Sara Keypour.

Shabbat Shalom,

Rabbi Aziz