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December 11, 2009
Volume 2, Issue 43
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In this issue ...
- Scientist in School returns.
- Grade 5 learns about a Sofer's job.
- Mitzvah Day.
- Award Winners.
- We are looking for...
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Coming Up ...
- Chanukah Around the World, Wed. Dec 16, 7 pm.
- Late arrival allowed Thurs. Dec 17, 10 am.
- ADK PJ day, Thurs. Dec 17.
- December early dismissal is 2 pm.
- 1st candle, Friday, Dec. 11.
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From the Administration
We have been looking back over the year so far, and we want you to know that we have been completely overwhelmed and amazed at the generosity of the Hillel and YRHS community and the ingenuity of our students.
So far, we have gathered over 700 socks, raised money and awareness for the Terry Fox Run, Birthday Angels, Guide Dogs, and the JFS Ezra Fund and Streetsmarts Program. We have piles of winter clothing to go to the Snowsuit Fund. Our 4th graders instituted a school-wide recycling program. We are selling beautiful kippot to support Mayan women and collected hundreds of books to be shipped to a school in Nunavut. Our older students raised $2000 for 4 different charities at the Volleyball-a-thon.
The list, as you see, goes on and on. We are very proud of the enthusiasm our students have shown and we appreciate the support they have received from their parents and community.
Tonight is Erev Chanukah, and as part of the holiday fun, it is our turn to give something to you. Our students and teachers have been working hard (and having lots of fun!) putting together our first school-wide Chanukah production and we can't wait to show it to you.
Chag sameach, and we will see you Wednesday evening!
- Donna Palmer-Dodds and Wendy Waxman
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Important Notes
- Our Chanukah play is Wednesday, December 16, at 7 pm. Please remember to leave your cameras behind, as Howard Sandler Photography will be filming and photographing our play. Also remember to send your children dressed in the colours for their grade.
- The day after our Chanukah play, Thursday, December 17, students are not expected in until 10 am, although the school will be open as normal.
- Thursday, December 17 is also ADK Pajama Day.
- Re-registatration for Friday Aftercare is ongoing. Please contact Gail Lieff at the SJCC to register and pay.
- Keep selling those cookbooks! The class that sells the most cookbooks will win a
lunchtime pizza party and the 2nd and 3rd highest will get a
cupcake party. Extra order forms can be downloaded from the website.
- The deadline to order Hot Lunches for January is Thursday, December 17. You can find the order form on the website.
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The students in ADK perform a dreidel song for the residents of Hillel Lodge.
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The Scientists Return
The very popular Scientists in School program has returned to Hillel. The grade 5 students learned a remarkable amount about chemistry on Thursday. Different types of matter, molecules and atoms, the elemental table and chemical reactions were all covered before the students got to try out some experiments themselves.
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Above, Haley and Elizabeth watch as a chemical reaction they created in a bottle inflates a balloon.
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Dani multi-tasks, helping both Kyra and Michaela with two steps of an experiment at the same time. For more photos, check out our photo gallery.
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Learning About Being a Sofer 
Sofer Rabbi Elie Benzaquen visited 5K on Thursday to teach them about creating all kinds of kosher parchment. He showed the how class tefillin is made and explained the details of what makes the writing on the parchment kosher. He also showed the students how he writes the letters.
Right, Talia tries out writing with the feather pen on parchment, as Eliana waits her turn. Rabbi Benzaquen also wrote each student's name on a piece of parchment for them. Below, Morah Kugler and her students try out fashioning letters as the sofer demonstrated.
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The Best Kind of Fundraiser!
Hillel has arranged to sell "Loblaws Money" cards in denominations of $100 or $250. The cost to you is nothing, but we receive 5% of every card sold. The money we receive will go to the Special Education Department and to buying new equipment for the gym. The cards will be in next week, and you can buy them with cash or a cheque from Tal Gilboa or Pearl Beausoleil.
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 Gabi proudly displays her certificate for reading 100 books in grade 1.
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A Book Review - by Library Squad member Joseph, grade 6
This wonderful book called Zorgamazoo
It'll keep your eyes reading like a paper on glue.
For you see, it's in rhyme, every word, every page.
This review is a sample that rhyming's the rage.
This book is about young Katrina Katrell.
And Monty the Zorgle who walks parallel.
They meet in an alley, then have an adventure
And don't you worry, it's been cleared to a censure.
If you can eat and digest a really good book
Mr. Robert Paul Westn is a very fine cook
It's a Silver Birch book, so don't you now worry,
In the world of books, Silver Birch is a curry.
If you're between nine and a hundred and twenty
You'll find it has fun, and fun it has plenty.
Now we're in the end so I'll give you a warning:
Once you read this book, you'll rhyme morning to morning.
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Grade 5 has a turn decorating the windows for Chanukah.
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PTA Cookbook Contest
The Cookbook contest is almost over! The class that sells the most cookbooks will win a
lunchtime pizza party and the 2nd and 3rd highest will get a
cupcake party. Extra order forms can be downloaded from the website.
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Catherine, Yael and Nava perform the play Ariot and the Dreidels in grade 1.
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Marvelous Mitzvot
 We here at Hillel are very proud of Sarina, from grade 7. Sarina cut off her hair to donate to Locks of Love at Mitzvah Day. She donated 10 inches. But what is really amazing is that this is the second time that Sarina has donated her hair. Two years ago, she donated 12 inches.
Hillel Academy had several events to coincide with Mitzvah Day, including the Volleyball-a-thon that raised over $2000 for 4 charities, and collecting books to send to a school in Nunavut. To our delight, a woman in the Ottawa community read about Hillel and Charles H. Hulse's book project in the Ottawa Citizen, and called our school to donate several boxes of high-quality educational books that she had been wanting to send up north.
As well as all the mitzvot organized at Hillel, students (such as Joseph from ADK, below) also attended Mitzvah Day itself, and performed activities such as making pet toys for the Humane Society and ?.
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Morah Ruthie helps Justin and Noah put the final touches on their decorations for the Chanukah play next Wednesday.
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We Are Looking For
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Winter Clothing
We are collecting both adult's and children's clothing for the Snowsuit Fund and the JFS Streetsmarts program. Look for the coat rack in the front hall and please add what you have to it.
Items from the 1930s
Brighton Beach Memoirs, YRHS's school play (also starring grade 8's Mirren and Racheli!), is set in the 1930s. They will
need to furnish a set with a couch and chair, a dining room table and chairs,
an old sewing machine, a china cabinet, and an old radio. They will also need
single beds, china and décor of the era. If you anything you can lend, please contact Lynda at YRHS.
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