The Heart and Soul of the CLC

For our last day before the winter break we decided to do something special. We volunteered at the Chai Lifeline, an amazing organization dedicated to helping families who have members with severe illness, רחמנה לצלן. We organized their whole toy room to make the toys more accessible. These toys are distributed thought Chanukah, and the year, to children who are not yet well. The people at chai lifeline were very thankful and more than impressed with our efforts. 

Great job everyone! 

To celebrate, we played a great game of bowling at the Newtonbrook Bowlerama.

Happy Chanukah

For our Chanukah celebration, we had a Chanukah fun day where we watched our Chanukah show, to be posted soon, played an intense game of Jewpardy and played a fun game of dreidel. Here are some pics from the dreidel game. 

Wood Burning

Here are some pictures of our wood burning craft. The students made challah boards and burned special messages into the wood.

Krias Shema

Today, Ezra built and designed a Sof Zman Krias Shema chart for our class. He is learning about different halacha times and we wanted to find some creative ways to express what we have learned. He burned to words into the wood, glued down the number holders and will regularly change the time we need to say Shema by.

This week is 9:51am

Dvar Torah for Parshas Vayeitzei

                                 

Parshas Vayeitzei

     

Today, while learning all about this weeks Parshah of Vayeitzei, we created beautiful 12 Shvatim stained glass windows. Inspired by Marc Chagall and Moshe Moscovitz (two Jewish artist who created stained glass expressions of the twelve tribes of Israel) we traced and coloured these designs onto glass panes and hope to display them in our sun room at school.

Good Shabbos

Parshah Toldos

In honour of this week's Parshah we commemorated Yaakov's purchase of Eisav's birthright. We couldn't believe that anyone would sell their birthright for a bowl of lentil soup, so we made lentil soup. Some of us liked it so much we could see why Eusav sold his birthright, others just couldn't understand it. To top it off, we ate oir lentil soup in a bread bowl. בתאבון!