Third Grade Curriculum
Welcome to our third grade class at Beit Sefer Shalom! Your child will attend school on Sundays from 9:00am-12:00pm and Wednesday from 4:30pm-6:30pm. Like all of our classrooms, the third grade curriculum is customized for this age group and organized into the core areas of Jewish education listed below.
- Focus on Yom HaAtzma’ut and Shavuot
- Holiday blessings
- Holiday blessings
- Weekly prayer practice
- The Ten Commandments
- The Jewish family around the world
- Hebrew greetings and common phrases
- Reading readiness
- Simple vocabulary
- Blessings and Four Questions
- Holiday blessings
- The land of Israel
- The story of Ruth
- Daily life
- Geography
- Focus on Be’er Sheva
- History through the arts
- Expanded discussion of diversity of Jews around the world with Story of Ruth as an example of diversity
- Empathy with respect to refugees and immigrants
- Raising cultural awareness
