First Grade Curriculum

Welcome to our first grade class at Beit Sefer Shalom! Your child will attend school on Sundays from 9:00am-12:00pm. Like all of our classrooms, the first grade curriculum is curriculum is customized for this age group and organized into the core areas of Jewish education listed below.

  • Focus on Chanukah and Tu B’Shevat
  • Jewish home and home symbols

  • God
  • Wonders of nature
  • The Sh’ma

  • Tzedakah

  • Simple Hebrew greetings
  • Singing in Hebrew
  • Holiday blessings
  • The Sh’ma
  • Four Questions

  • God and nature

  • Jerusalem
  • The Story of the Maccabees
  • Weekly Torah portion

  • Basic geography
  • Israeli childhood
  • Focus on Jerusalem

  • History through the arts

  • Characteristics and diversity of Jewish families
  • Religious tolerance taught with the Chanukah story
  • Mitzvot of Bikur Cholim, Gemilut Chesed, and B’tzelem Elohim

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