FIFTH GRADE SOCIAL ACTION PROJECT

Dear families of Temple Beth Am,
The 5^th grade religious school class has decided to collect donations for Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary and Hospital for our Animal Social Action Project. We need your help!

Below is the list of items Safe Harbor needs. (You can click the Safe Harbor logo above to visit their website). Please bring them to our Light up Shabbat Service on February 10^th. Our class is planning a visit by Safe Harbor after the donations are in, so they can collect them. They will also come to talk with us, bring an adopted dog for us to see and collect the items. The list below tells you specifically what they need. So please help us out and have your family collect a few items from family and friends and bring to services on February 10^th. Looking forward to seeing you at our upcoming “Light up Shabbat” with your collected items,

- The fifth grade class of Temple Beth Am

Collection items:
Rolls Paper Towels
1 gallon bottles of bleach
96oz or larger HE( high efficiency) laundry detergent
56oz or larger bottles of Fabuloso, scrub brush and sponges
30lb or larger bag of Tidy Cats Clay Cat Litter ( no clumping please)
12 pack cans of Friskies wet cat food ( classic pate, no shredded please)
13 gal drawstring kitchen garbage bags 100 Count
30 gal drawstring garbage bags 100 count
Cans of Pedigree wet dog food
Lg or XL Kongs ( natural rubber, puncture resistant and chewer friendly)
25 lb or Larger bag of Purina Dog Chow
Cotton Rugs
Bath and Beach Towels
Used Cotton Blankets or Comforters (No fitted sheets, please)
Used cell phones
Used ink jet cartridges
Empty Laser Cartridges

TU B'SHEVAT PROGRAM

Welcome to our fabulous Temple Beth Am Religious School.  
Please download the Religious School Registration Packet for
Grades K-7, and return completed forms to the Temple office.
There is an additional Shalom Chai packet for Seventh Graders only.
Thank you and have a great summer!

To learn more about our program click curriculum/overview .

February, 2012
Shalom!

By now you should have received your children’s progress reports (AKA report cards.) I am pleased to share that there is a lot of high-energy learning going on in our classrooms. The teachers report that there is a good deal of participation, with lots of questions being asked (always a good sign when students want to learn more…)

The teachers and I need your help to keep this momentum going. Over the next few months, there will be the usual tendency to think that the school year is (almost) over – but it isn’t! PLEASE, do what you can to continue to bring your children to all their classes, both Sundays and Tuesdays, so that they will get the most out of their lessons. Please also be sure to read the weekly email that your children’s teachers send home, and visit our TBA website and Facebook pages… often! These are great ways to keep up with the pulse of the classroom and other TBA goings on.

Here are a few highlights for this month’s calendar of Religious School events:

*February 10^th: Camp Shabbat & Light Up Shabbat / Friday Night Live with Sheldon Low!

*February 12^th: Celebrate the Birthday of the Trees - a Tu B’Shevat Learning Program for

Religious School Families (9:30 – noon @ Jonathan Dickinson State Park)

*February 19^th: NO CLASSES, Presidents’ Day weekend

*February 19^th: 12:30 – 2:30 ~ Meet Sylvia Rouss, author of Sammy the Spider (meet Sammy too!) Targeted for families with children pre-school – 2^nd grade, but all are welcome!)

*February 26^th: 6^th Grade trip to Miami Jewish Museum and Holocaust Memorial

*March 3^rd: Purim Celebration (see details elsewhere in this Scribe)

*March 4^th: NO CLASSES (we’ll all be pooped out from partying at the Purim celebration!)

As always, please contact me with any questions, concerns, or compliments about the Religious School – we really do take your feedback into consideration. Also, if you would like to be more involved in the goings on in the Religious School, please give me a call and we can find ways of you sharing your talents & passions about Jewish Education and our children.

L’Shalom,   David