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Curriculum Overview

GRADE

STUDY CONTENT

PRAYERS
BLESSINGS

URJ’s CHAI CURRICULUM

HEBREW

“Parent & Me”

Parent & Child celebrate
Jewish Identity through Art, Music
& Holiday Celebrations

Motzi

 

Singing Hebrew Songs

Kindergarten & First

Hands on Exploration of Shabbat & Tzedakah, Bible Stories

Shema
Kiddush
Candle

 

AlefBet Intro
Singing Hebrew Songs & Blessings

Second

Jewish Identity

Shema
Motzi
Kiddush
Candle

CHAI Learning for Jewish Life
Level 2

Master Decoding AlefBet  
Singing Hebrew Songs

Third

Spirituality
Relationship with God, Fellow human beings & the world

Mastery of Shema , Kiddush, Candle
Motzi

CHAI Learning for Jewish Life
Level 3

Continue Decoding, learn core Vocabulary for selected prayers in service, The Four Questions
Begin formal Hebrew School Education

Fourth

Jewish American History

Mourner’s Kaddish
V’Ahavata, Avot
4 Questions

CHAI Learning for Jewish Life
Level 4

Temple Sinai Hebrew School  Vocabulary

Fifth

Life Cycle Events from Brit to Yahrzeit, Spirituality &
 Partnership with God

Full Kiddush, Kaddish, Aleinu, Avot & VAhavata

CHAI Learning for Jewish Life
Level 4

Temple Sinai Hebrew School, Vocabulary

Sixth

Mitzvot as an integral part of Judaism

Regular Reading in Shabbat Services

CHAI Learning for Jewish Life
Level 5

Bar/Bat Mitzvah Study Course With Rabbi
Parent & Student  5 week B’nai Mitzvot Class

Seventh

Torah Study & meaning as it relates to today’s world
Intro to Holocaust

Regular Reading in Shabbat Services

CHAI Learning for Jewish Life
Level 7

Selected prayer study in Siddur

Eighth

Study Shabbat service in it’s component parts and as a whole
Comparative Judaism, Holocaust

Regular Reading in Shabbat Services

CHAI Learning for Jewish Life
Level 6

Selected prayer study in Siddur

Ninth

Comparative Religion
Holocaust

Regular Reading in Shabbat Services

CHAI Learning for Jewish Life
Level 8

Selected prayer study in Siddur

Tenth
Confirmation

Understanding the world from a Jewish perspective and through Jewish texts, Common themes & Reform  interpretations in Jewish worship

Regular Reading in Shabbat Services

 

Selected prayer study in Siddur

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