Teacher
Morah Sally Hendelman
 

Curriculum:
Judaica:

• Introduction to Jewish History; primary text: Understanding Jewish History
• Continued examination of Torah text and its lessons and Jewish values; secondary text: A Torah Commentary for Our Times
   

Tephillot:
Shema- V’Ahavta, Va Yomer, Mi Chamocha for Maariv; Mi Chamocha for Shacharit; Barchu for Erev Shabbat; Barchu for Shabbat Morning; Tallit; Tefillin; Birkot Ha-shachar; Amidah 1st 2 Brachot; Sim Shalom; Aleinu; Torah blessings
 

Hebrew:
Hebrew will be taught using the Sarah and David Hebrew Language curriculum. This program utilizes visual, auditory, and kinesthetic activities to help students learn the Hebrew letters and vowels, master letter and vowel decoding, develop fluent reading skills, and learn basic vocabulary. The older grades will develop mastery in prayer chanting and understanding. The curriculum uses textbooks, workbooks, posters, a cd, and on-line materials.
 

In Kitah Hay, students will review letter recognition. Students will practice reading Hebrew by putting together the letter and vowel sounds, and concentrate on increasing reading fluency. Games and a multi-sensory approach are stressed. Simple vocabulary words are introduced and the children will learn to write the letters in script.
Each student will use the Read Hebrew Primer for letter and vowel review, decoding practice, script writing and reading fluency mastery.
In addition, students will learn prayers from the Shabbat morning service. They will use the Shabbat Morning Book to practice reading, singing and gain simple understanding of the prayers. This will reinforce the lessons experienced in Tephilla with Fredda Cohen.

More about Morah Sally:

Sally Hendelman joined the staff at Bet Am Shalom as a third grade teacher in 2004. She moved to the states from Israel after teaching for few years in Rishon Le Tzion, the “winery city”, just few kilometers south of Tel Aviv.

She spent 20 months in the Israeli Army as a communication instructor in Tzerifin Army Base near Rishon Le Zion. After she got married she went back to school and earned her teaching degree from Beit Berl Teacher's College.

Sally enjoys keeping up with her family in Pennsylvania, Florida, and Israel, as well as walking, reading, and traveling. She is a mother of two boys and one ninth grade granddaughter and 9 month baby granddaughter.

Sally also teaches at Solomon Schechter, and has been there since 1989, currently teaching the 7th and 8th grade. Sally is a certified Neta Mentor, supporting and working with new and less experienced Hebrew teachers.

She is now teaching the Hay class at Bet Am Shalom. This year, the Hay students will explore Torah through the lens of traditional and contemporary scholar commentators. They will learn tephillot (prayers)- both the meaning and practice reading fluency. Kitah Hay students will study early Jewish History through multi-sensory methods, including writing in diaries. An additional technique, is for the children to pose as “photographers” who will capture the life of our ancestors in Canaan.

In Sally’s class the students will learn that the most important goals of Jewish life is to be a Mensch, and be a caring and active participant member of the Bet Am Shalom and the greater Jewish community.