OUR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
PRE-K – 10th GRADE
As it states in our Parent Manual 2011-2012 Touro Synagogue Religious School offers a comprehensive program for grades Pre-K through 10 grade and beyond. The program in our school is based on the URJ Chai (Learning for Jewish Life) Curriculum and on our own spiral Holiday Curriculum.
JUDAIC STUDIES
Each grade level participates in a myriad of learning experiences integrating Bible/Torah, Being Jewish, the Hebrew language, Israel and Jewish Holidays. The students are challenged to think about the place of God, of the Synagogue, and of the Jewish community in their lives. They are presented with primary Jewish resources, become involved in action programs and develop the skills to question and think creatively. The Touro Synagogue Religious School Judaic Studies program prepares our students for lifelong Jewish learning.
HEBREW
Students are touched by Hebrew throughout their Religious School experience. This contact may be in the form of direct, formal Hebrew study, or it may be informal through music, worship, and the use of Hebrew words for concepts of Jewish religious experience. The main focus of the Hebrew program is designed to provide students with the ability to participate in a Synagogue setting. There is an emphasis on mechanical reading skills and vocabulary recognition as related to Tefillah and Tanach. The Hebrew language is seen as a central thread linking World Jewry, past, present, and future.
Parents ~
Below you will find our Religious School Curricula by grade level. If your child has been absent we hope you will view the missed material and engage in a learning experience at home. In this way your child can continue learning without interruption, and will fit right back into the swing of things next week.
While you cannot recreate the classroom experience, you can create your very own learning experience with your child. Maybe read a story about the subject of the lesson; perhaps sit together and look up information in books or on the internet. Your child might prefer to tell you the story as he or she remembers it, or draw a picture representing the character or event. And, maybe even better, the whole family can have a conversation at the dinner table, sharing what each one remembers about the topic at hand, and reinforcing the importance of Judaism in your family life.
Religious School Curricula
Pre-Kindergarten (parents) 2011-2012
Kindergarten (parents) 2011-2012
First Grade 2011-12
Second Grade 2011-12
Third Grade 2011-12
Fourth Grade 2011-12
Fifth Grade 2011-12
Sixth Grade 2011-12
7th & 8th Grades (Upper Division) overview of all three Trimesters, 2011-2012
7th & 8th Grades (Upper Division) Trimester I: Comparative Judaism
7th & 8th Grades (Upper Division) Trimester II: Comparative Religions
7th & 8th Grades (Upper Division) Trimester III – Magic, Mystics, and Monsters ~
Exploring Judaism’s Supernatural Tradition
Ninth grade 2011-12 (parent copy)
Tenth Grade curriculum outline 2011-12
