Such a busy day! We were so lucky to have Rabbi Victor Mirelman join us today to help the students find the bible story they each want to research and reflect on. We talked about stories dealing with sibling rivalry, dreams and visions, heroes, heroic flaws, spies, deceit, wisdom and so much more! Each of the students chose a story they wanted to learn more about and use for their Bible Study. In the next couple months, I will be presenting each story to the class (as well as some of my personal favorites) and helping the students research and understand the commentary on their story. Ask your child what story or theme they chose and why they picked the one they did. Everyone made a great choice!

Most of our day was spent discussing Bible stories and making the difficult decision of what to focus on. After our bagel break, however, we just barely squeezed in enough time to get our individual blogs started. On the right side of this blog's screen, you can see the beginning of each student's first blog post. If you click on their post, it will take you directly to their blog. We rushed today to get the blogs started, but in the coming weeks we'll be adding pictures, personal profiles and much much more content and reflection. Students can feel free to add to their blog during the week. In fact, if any student did not get to finish his/her blog post today, they should finish it before next Sunday.

Here are the links to each student's blog. Feel free to click on the link and check out what each student has to say about their family roots so far.

Auggie
Callie
Lucas

We didn't have time today to put together our class binders. I will put them together tonight and bring them to the Rosh Hashanah service tomorrow morning. So anyone who is at the service can get their binder tomorrow. I can hold onto any other binders for next time.

Unfortunately, I will not be in class next Sunday but David will be here and he will be presenting on the Spanish Inquisition. Students should bring in their packet that David gave them last week. Don't worry, once we get the binders to  you, all this paperwork will be much easier to keep track of.

Have a great rest of your Sunday and a wonderful new year! I look forward to everything we are going to accomplish this year.

Becca

*Cross your fingers for the last 4 minutes of this Colts game. Go Colts!