What's Happening at the JLL: 6/7th Grade Edition

November, 2023 | Cheshvan 5784

What's Happening

in the JLL

6/7th Grade Newsletter

This year the JLL is focused on building

community, relationships, learning and fun!

Strategies we are using to promote this goal include

Requiring students to "park" their cellphones for the duration of the evening
Keeping cohorts together with the same teacher for the year
Posting weekly updates and class happenings on Remini

7th Grade is in workshop cohorts based on BMitzvah dates for the study of trope, writing a D'var Torah or bemah skills (brushing up on prayers). These workshops meet from 5:15-5:45 for four weeks. At the beginning of each workshop rotation, watch for a Remini post with details for where your child will meet their cohort.

At 5:45, students head to their bateem (homerooms) to explore the curriculum for the current rotation. Through November, we are engaging with a curriculum created by our partners at Moving Traditions. This curriculum explores what it means to become a Jewish teenager examined through a lens of Jewish Values.

6th grade meets in their bateem 5:15-6:45. Through November, they are engaging with a curriculum created by our partners at Moving Traditions which explores what it means to become a Jewish teenager examined through a lens of Jewish Values.

For the first three weeks this JLL year, 6th and 7th Graders focused on activities connected to the themes of the Fall Holidays: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot, including