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Friday Letter Friday Letter Archive | Friday Letter Alerts
Friday, September 3, 2010
24 Elul 5770
B’ruchim HaBa’im! Welcome to a New School Year!
Shana Tova U’Metuka – May it be a Sweet New Year!
Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech
| Candle lighting on Friday, 7:04 PM.
| Havdalah on Shabbat, 8:08 PM
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Calendar at a Glance:
Tues. Sept. 7 First Day of School, K-12
Gan Parents – Open Circle @ 11:00 AM
Gan Students – Noon Dismissal, followed by PA
sponsored Pizza Party and Stay and Play
Tues. Sept. 7 PA Evening Social – @ 7:30 PM at the home of
Carolyn and Alan Landes. RSVP today to
ssdspa@gmail.com. All parents welcome!
Wed. Sept. 8 Erev Rosh Hashana – NO SCHOOL. Candle Lighting
@ 6:56 PM
Thurs. Sept. 8 Rosh Hashana – NO SCHOOL. Candle Lighting after
8:00 PM
Fri. Sept. 9 Rosh Hashana – NO SCHOOL. Candle Lighting @
6:53 PM
Mon. Sept. 13 Return to School, regular dismissal time for all
grades, K-5
Catered Lunch Program Begins. Click Here for
Menu and Registration Form.
Tues. Sept. 14 4th Grade Field Trip to Project Adventure
Wed. Sept. 15 Meet the Teacher Night @ 6:30 – 7:55 for grades
K-2, 7:35 – 9:00 for grades 3-5. For details, click
Here. Wed. Sept. 15 Lulav and Etrog Ordering Deadline. Click Here for
order form. Thurs. Sept. 16 ASK (After School for Kids) first semester begins.
3:15 – 4:30. See below for brochure and
registration form.
Fri. Sept. 17 Erev Yom Kippur – NO SCHOOL. Candle Lighting
@ 6:42 PM.
Sun. Sept. 19 Opening Day for Solomon Strikers Soccer League.
For registration information, see below. PA Sponsored Family Fun Day. 12:00 – 3:00 PM
@ Jericho Campus. Click Here for flyer.
Tues. Sept. 21. Lulavim and Etrogim distributed to students who
have pre-ordered.
Wed. Sept. 22 Erev Sukkot – NO SCHOOL. Candle Lighting time @
6:30 PM.
Thurs. Sept. 23 Sukkot – NO SCHOOL. Candle Lighting time after
7:33 PM.
Fri. Sept. 24 Sukkot – NO SCHOOL. Candle Lighting for Shabbat
@ 6:30 PM.
Sept. 25-28 Hol HaMoed Sukkot. Sept. 27 – 29 Send Lulavim and Etrogim to school for Chol HaMoed
Sukkot.
Tues. Sept. 28 PA Sponsored Sukkah Dinner
Wed. Sept. 29 Hoshana Rabbah – 1:30 Dismissal
Thurs. Sept. 30 Shmini Atzeret – NO SCHOOL
Fri. Oct. 1 Simchat Torah – NO SCHOOL
Mon. Oct. 4 After-School-Band Program Begins. Open to
Students in 3rd – 5th grades.
Fri. Oct. 8 Kabbalat Shabbat Program Begins. Fridays @
8:15 – 8:50. Parents and friends always welcome.
JCC @ Schechter Friday Fun After-School
Program Begins. 1:30 – 2:45. See below for
registration information. For further information,
please contact Rachel Barshak, Youth Director at
the JCC at 516-484-1545 ext. 179 or
rbarshak@sjjcc.org. Mon. Oct. 11 Columbus Day – SCHOOL IS OPEN. Your district
may not be offering bus transportation on
Columbus Day, so check to be sure with your
district transportation office.
PLEASE NOTE:
Arrival to School – By now you should have been contacted by your bus driver and notified of the time for pickup. Things are always a little slow during the first couple of days until routines are established. Our first priority is children’s safety and no busses will leave at the end of the day until we are 100% sure that all children are on the correct busses. On the first day of school, children will go straight to their classrooms. Beginning on Monday, Sept. 13th, students will first gather in the auditorium for morning assembly, Monday through Thursday. On Fridays, children will begin their day in their classrooms. If you drive your children to school, please do not pull into the semi-circle, as your car will interfere with bus transportation. Park, walk your child in, and kiss goodbye in the lobby. Pick Up – If you are picking up your child, you are welcome to wait for your child in the front lobby. Again, you may not bring your car into the semi-circle, which is reserved for busses only. If you are picking up your child, please send a note in the morning. If your plans change over the course of the day and you need your child’s dismissal information updated, please do so NOT LATER THAN 2:30 PM, Monday through Thursday, or NO LATER THAN 12:45 on Fridays. No changes can be made after that time. Registration for After-School and Sunday Activities – In your summer mailing, there were some time-sensitive items for after-school and weekend activities, which require separate registration and payment. For your convenience, at the end of this Friday Letter, you will find attachments for the following enrichment programs:
· ASK – After School for Kids (registration for Monday and Thursday after-school clubs)
· Solomon Strikers (registration for parent-run Sunday morning Soccer Program)
· Sid Jacobson JCC (information about Friday Fun After School programs @ SSDS, and bus transportation from SSDS to After-Care @ Sid Jacobson JCC at Camp Robinhood for Monday through Friday)
· Mid Island JCC (information about bus transportation to After-Care, Monday through Friday)
Registration for the school’s After-School-Band Program, run by Paul Effman Music for students in 3rd through 5th grade, will be coming home soon.
Community Events:
UJA Connect to Care Upcoming Events:
LinkedIn II
This workshop will cover all basic aspects of using LinkedIn including invitations, inbox messages, profile searches, and editing and managing your profile. You must have a profile or have attended LinkedIn I in order to attend. Limited space, pre-registration required.
¨Monday 9/13 10:00am-12:00pm
Sid Jacobson JCC, 300 Forest Dr, East Hills
Networking for College Grads
Did you know that 80% of job openings are not advertised? Learn how to network to find hidden job opportunities and to build new relationships for your job search.
¨Thursday 9/16 10:00am-12:00pm
Friedberg JCC, 15 Neil Court, Oceanside
Winning Resumes
Learn to write a resume that highlights your accomplishments and markets you as a results-oriented professional.
¨Monday 9/27 10:00am-12:00pm
Mid-island Y JCC, 45 Manetto Hill Road,
Plainview
Connect to Care events are all FREE. PLEASE BE PROMPT Register online at www.sjjcc.org/connect-to-care. For more information click Here or to register by phone, call Lori at Connect to Care, Nassau County Hub at Sid Jacobson JCC 516.484.1545, ext. 212
Friday Letter from the Principal:
Dear Parents and Friends of the Solomon Schechter Elementary School,
It is with great excitement that we await the arrival of your children to school on Tuesday, September 7th! We have been hard at work getting ready for their arrival and can’t wait to see their smiling faces as they get off the busses and enter the school house. Todah Rabbah, thank you for entrusting us with your child’s education. We will go above and beyond to cultivate your child’s mind, hands, heart, and soul.
The Elementary School Friday Letter, for which you hopefully received an email alert, and which resides on the school’s website for easy access, is a “must read” each and every week. The first part, the “Calendar at a Glance,” is the school’s prime vehicle to communicate what is coming up.
The second part, “Community Events” is the place where we share news from our partners in the Jewish community – synagogues, JCC’s, the Jewish Theological Seminary, UJA, and so on. If you know of a community event that might be of interest to our parents, pass that information on to me at cdolgin@ssdsnassau.org or to Mrs. Sokoler, our computer teacher and Friday Letter editor to ssokoler@ssdsnassau.org.
The third part, the “Friday Letter from the Principal” is where I share reflections on events that have passed and on topics that I hope will be of interest to you. Often in the Friday Letter, you will also find a Devar Torah, words of wisdom about the Weekly Torah Portion. However, on weeks that “Kol Schechter” the school’s monthly K-12 newsletter, is published by Rabbi Herrnson, Head of School, the Devar Torah will instead appear in Kol Schechter. You see, the elementary school Friday Letter is just one of the many important avenues through which the school communicates with parents and friends in the community. If you have not yet done so, you should also subscribe to receive alerts for the other Friday Letters, including Kol Schechter, the Parent Association and Strikers and Sluggers, our Sunday Sports League. To do so, follow this link: http://www.ssdsnassau.org/schools/elementary/alerts.php
Another crucial form of communication is to view your children’s teachers’ websites. Every teacher has a website. TO ENTER THE TEACHER WEBSITES, USE THE USERNAME school AND THE PASSWORD school.
It has been a very exciting couple of weeks getting ready for a new school year, and there are lots of details shared in Kol Schechter, which is being published today. So please read about the Gan Orientation, Teacher In-Service, the New Gruss Computer Labs, and lots of other tidbits in today’s edition of Kol Schechter.
Before Labor Day Weekend and Rosh Hashana, I would like to share one reflection. In the Mahzor Lev Shalem, just published by the Conservative movement, there are several t’hinnot on the margins of some pages.
“T’hinnot are prayers, mostly from the European Yiddish tradition, written by or for women as introductions to rituals and statutory prayers” (p.30). I want to share one of them with you as a kavvanah for the coming year, which the elementary teachers studied together at our In-Service this past week:
“Please, a new year, fresh, a clean slate, a true beginning. A year of health and strength, work which brings sustenance and meaning, permission to rest and savor, abundant love, laughter, joy. The same and more for my beloved family, my cherished friends. Cessation of the horrors, the throbbing of war, violence, cruelty. Peace for us, the human family, and for our home, Your world.” Malka Aliza bat Leiba
Wishing you a Shana Tova U’Metuka,
Dr. Cindy Dolgin, Elementary School Principal
PDF files
ASK Brochure and Registration
Solomon Strikers Information
After-School Program at Schechter
After-Care @ Sid Jacobson JCC at Camp Robinhood
Mid-Island JCC After-care
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