In Cheder Menachem of Los Angeles, students now start each day singing a song in Yiddish that states their intent to go learn “the Aibershter’s Torah, our holy mesorah…”
Fifth grade girls in Philadelphia play Rashi Jeopardy to grow accustomed to thinking in terms of Rashi’s question, not just answer. In Pittsburgh, passports, picture galleries, and “Shroggle” games have all become exciting tools for students to reinforce the Chumash skills of comprehension, summarizing, and more.
These schools are all part “Veshinantam,” the Menachem Education Foundation’s new program to bring Torah learning to life. While this year’s program covered these skills under the theme of “Chumash Explorer”, for the coming year, schools will focus on milim, trop and other aspects of the mesorah of Chumash as “Torah Architexts.”
“The custom materials were very creative in the way they integrated the lessons and themes in an exciting way,” says Mrs. Nami Friedman, assistant principal in Pittsburgh. “I felt that they were really there for us. Veshinantam has increased the rigor and organization in our instruction.”
A two day training in Pittsburgh on May 23-24 / 15-16 Iyar will be open to all educators who would like to learn more about this topic, while serving as an orientation for Veshinantam at the same time. The program aims to unite schools committed to increasing the success of their students in Chumash learning through focusing on another area each year, through training for teachers and inspiring activities for students.
Additional videos of the learning in action can be viewed at www.MyMef.org/Veshinantam. Spaces for the training are filling up fast, so interested schools should sign up today, or contact [email protected] / 718-773-6215 for more information.
What a beautiful program!
A great and fun way to teach Torah to kids. Hashem should give all those involved all the brachos!!
Beautiful videos and this program sounds wonderful! Yasher koach
DIVI you’re so cute
this program looks fantastic. Who made the videos?
wow nice beautiful thank you we Moshaich now
Learning should be fun – too often in schools it isn’t, or they’re having fun but not learning!
It takes effort and support for teachers to create lessons and curricula that are educationally sound and also exciting.
amazing!!
Learning should be fun – too often in schools it isn’t, or they’re having fun but not learning!
It takes effort and support for teachers to create lessons and curricula that are educationally sound and also exciting.