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The goal in educating the youngest members of the Temple is to help foster a sense of “ownership” of the temple, the temple community, and being Jewish. Tot Shabbats engage the whole family to look at the world through Jewish eyes. Your child will enjoy learning through eating and cooking, arts and crafts, music, dance, stories, and creative drama.
Grades 1-9 use the CHAI curriculum developed by the Union for Reform Judaism. Jewish sages taught us that the world stands on three things:
Torah, Avodah, and G’milut Chasadim Study,Worship, and Acts of loving kindness
Each grade level contains lessons in those three stands to ensure that student learning will go beyond the specific classroom activities.
Students gain a deeper, enduring understanding of Judaism. Additional curriculums supplement the CHAI study to round out each student’s day.
Each grade level contains lessons in those three stands to ensure that student learning will go beyond the specific classroom activities.
Students gain a deeper, enduring understanding of Judaism. Additional curriculums supplement the CHAI study to round out each student’s day
Curriculum Overview :Download a prinable version [pdf]
GRADE STUDY CONTENT PRAYERS URJ'S CHAI CURRICULUM HEBREW
BLESSINGS CURRICULUM
Parent&Me Families celebrate TOTShabbat Holidays through MOTZI Interactive Singing Jewish
Art, Music & Hands-On KIDDUSH Songs
Celebration Kindergarten Hands-on exploration SHEMA CHAI Learning Gemilut Chasadim Intro Alef Bet & First of Shabbat, Holidays, Kiddush For Jewish Tzedakah Singing Jewish
Bible Stories Candles Life Level 1 Avodah Songs & Blessings
ART & MUSIC
Torah chorus & cooking Second Jewish Identity Shema CHAI Learning Gemilut
Motzi, Kiddush For Jewish Chasadim Decoding Alef Bet
ART & MUSIC Candles Life Level 2 Avodah
Torah chorus & cooking Third Spirituality Master Shema CHAI Learning Gemilut
Relationship w/G-D, Motzi For Jewish Chasadim Enroll In & Begin
Fellow human beings Kiddush Life Level 3 Avodah Formal Hebrew
& the World
chorus & cooking School Education
ART & MUSIC Candle
Torah Fourth Jewish American Mourner's CHAI Learning Gemilut Temple Sinai
History Kaddish, For Jewish Chasadim Hebrew School
Jewish contributions to Ve'Ahavata Life Level 4 Avodah Vocabulary
Politics
chorus & cooking chorus & cooking
ART & MUSIC 4 Questions
Torah text decoding Fifth Life Cycle from B'rit to full Kiddush CHAI Learning Gemilut Temple Sinai
Yahrzeit Avot For Jewish Chasadim Hebrew School
Spirituality & partners Ve'Ahavata Life Level 5 Avodah Vocabulary
w/G-D, Bullying Aleinu
Torah text decoding
ART & MUSIC
chorus & cooking chorus & cooking Sixth Mitzvot as an Regular Service CHAI Learning Gemilut Mini Family Course
integral part of Judaism For Jewish Chasadim for B'nai Mitzvot
Bullying/Jewish Heros Participation Life Level 6 Avodah Preparation
ART & MUSIC
Torah chorus & cooking text decoding Seventh Torah Study as it CHAI Learning Gemilut Selected Prayer
relates to Today's Regular Service For Jewish Chasadim Study in Siddur
World ,Modern Israel Life Level 7 Avodah & Texts
Holocaust Participation
Torah
ART & MUSIC
TIKKUN OLAM chorus & cooking Eighth CHAI Learning Gemilut Selected Prayer
ComparativeJudaism Regular Service For Jewish Chasadim Study in Siddur
Modern Israel Life Level 8 Avodah & Texts
Holocaust Participation
TIKKUN OLAM
ART & MUSIC chorus & cooking Ninth Comparative Regular Service SOCIAL ACTION Selected Prayer
Religion Study in Siddur
Social Action Participation & Texts
Holocaust chorus & cooking Tenth Understanding Confirmation the world from a Selected Prayer
Jewish perspective & Regular Service Moral, Ethical Study in Siddur
through Jewish texts, & Personal & Texts Common themes & Participation Jewish Reform interpretations understanding in Jewish Study The following objectives are integral part of our curriculum in all our classes, every year:
1. A sense of identification with all Jews and with Jewish history, purpose, and destiny.
2. A feeling of obligation to support the State of Israel, Jews everywhere who are in need, and all worthy Jewish institutions.
3. Respect for and acceptance of differences among Jews as part of an appreciation of community.
4. An awareness of the need to resist anti-Semitism everywhere.
5. A belief that God’s covenant with Israel requires a sense of social justice and compassion for all human beings.
6. Awareness that the basic Jewish value is life itself, and that each individual is as significant as the entire universe.
7. The realization that modern Judaism has evolved through continuing reinterpretation and reform, in response to both external pressures and inner change.
8. The basic harmony between reason and faith, science and religion. Reform Judaism requires a rational, inquiring attitude toward the world within and without.
9. That Judaism is best demonstrated by high moral and ethical standards. Torah teaches that the reward for good is the deed itself.
10. The importance of religious observance in the home and Temple is helping us find beauty and purpose in our everyday life.
11. A feeling of optimism in an incomplete universe. We are God’s partners in making this a better world.
Curriculum Overview
