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Final Newsletter for 5769

19-Jul-09

B"H we have merited completing our thirteenth year of Magen Avos. The year has been so filled with activity that it flew by. This newsletter will give you a taste of all the action in the past two months

End of the year Events

The school was humming with activity as the classes prepared for a myriad of end of the year events.

The science exhibition, run by Morah Miri Korach gave all the students in grades 4-8 the opportunity to explore topics related to the material they had learned this year and exhibit it to their mothers.
The Personal project exhibition gave the mothers a glimpse into the varied topics that the students have worked on throughout the year in their Ivrit classes. The topics ranged from the seven days of creation, to great Rabbanim, to countries around the world, to "roots"… Along with new knowledge about their topics, the girls learned how to gather information, summarize, ask questions about their topics,, write a bibliography, and many other reading comprehension and expressive writing skills.
Grades 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 ended the year with mother/daughter evenings complete with music, drama, dance and good food.

GRADUATION

The 8^th grade put in hours upon hours of practice for a most inspiring and professional play entitled "HIONESTY" for their graduation celebration. The most wonderful part of this memorable evening was that it was totally a Magen Avos production- from the play written by Morah Dorit Erlich, to the direction by Morah Miriam Tuito, the musical scenes and beautiful choir arranged by Morah Chani Stern, the lively dances choreographed by Morah Dena Lipman and Eva Topf and the props and stage set by the students. There were speeches by the Menahelet Simon, Morah Bella Weintraub, Mrs. Karosenti as representative of the mothers and Efrat Golovetzis as representative of the students. Diplomas were awarded to each student.

On the last day of school, the 8^th graders received their yearbooks. The 8^th grade yearbook is filled with pictures, articles, letters from administration and staff, ads and best wishes from family. This class deserves to be very proud of themselves for the time, effort and skills they put into production of their yearbook. The theme was not to judge by the cover, but to look inside. Inspite of this, both the cover and the inside of their yearbook was a quality job.

Day Camp

This year, the day camp coordinators will be Chana Aidel Ginsberg and Avigail Simon. They are already hard at work preparing a fun filled program for the 1^st through 6^th graders and have come to school to give the girls a preview of what is in store.

The school camp will begin on Sunday, the 5th of July and continue through Tuesday the 28^th of July. Sun. through Thurs. the camp is from 9:00 AM-2:00PM and Fridays from 9:00 AM-12:00 PM. (5^th and 6^th grades not all Fridays according to schedule sent home). The ganim camp is 8:30-1:30. Fri.-12:00PM.

School bus service

will pick up from the regular stops 10 minutes later then during the school year. For the way home, the ganim will be picked up at 1:30 PM and the school camp at 2:00 PM.

Hashavas Aveida

Over the year many articles of clothing have been left in the school. As the school year ends, we have gathered all of the items together and put them in the caravan to the right of the school. They will be left there until the end of the first week of camp. After this time, everything will be given to a G"mach

NEW SCHOOL YEAR

We begin the new school year I"YH on Tuesday –Sept 1^st. On Tuesday school will be from 8:30-12:00PM and on Wednesday-Sept.2nd from 8:30-1:30PM. There will be no bus service.
On Thursday Sept 3^nd bus service and yom limudim aroch will begin. There will be a school bus for the children dismissed at 1:30 PM and for those in the Yom Limud Aroch program and in the older grades who are dismissed at 3:10PM.

FIRST GRADE

Mothers and daughters of the first grade are invited to a "Shalom Kita Alef" on Monday August 31^st at 4:00PM together with their Morahs in order to get acquainted in a fun and personal way before the rush of the first day of school. The children should come dressed in their school uniforms but without briefcases to the first grade classrooms in the main building.

Uniforms

School uniforms (skirts and blouses) will be sold in the Birkat HaRama store on #5 Rabbi Yehuda haNassi st. in Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet, tel. 9997751. The store is open from 9:00AM-9:00PM. There is a g'mach for Magen Avos uniforms at the home of the Sterns. You may call to set up a time to go 9994369.

School Books

Booklists for the upcoming school year are attached to this newsletter. In addition the booklists and all the information in this newsletter will be posted on the school website magenavos.org. School books may be purchased at the Dushinsky book store on Nahar Ha Yarden st. #34 or in Nachala Umenucha on Chazon Ish st. #17 tel. 9990851. You may order by fax #9915657 with a credit card and the books will be delivered to your door. Purchasing books in this store qualifies the school to receive free books for the school library

The summer is a time for the girls to actualize all they have learned; davening, behaving with yiras shamayim and making a Kiddush Hashem wherever they go. As usual, we end with a special reminder that standards for tznius in dress and comportment are the same in the summer months as during the year; in school and out of school. Students may not have any access to the internet or email. (grandparents may be emailed only with a parent present)