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Dates to Remember
Light Shabbat candles at
3:57 p.m.; Shabbat ends 5:10 p.m.
Last Day of School Before Winter Break
Friday, Dec 18
Report Cards Go Online Friday, Dec 18
parents.talmudtorah.com
Classes Resume After Winter Break Monday, Jan 4
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Community Calendar
King David High School
New Student Applications Open for 2016-2017
New Student applications are completed online and are due by January 11, 2016. Click here for more information and to apply.
New JCC Self Defense for Youth program starting in January.It is a specially designed kids class (8-14yr) specializing in Israeli Krav Maga self defense with 2 instructors (female/male). This is the first season for kids being held at the JCC, but it is sold out everywhere else. Register early to avoid disappointment. Tuesdays Jan 5 to March 8 More details here
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KOL HA'KAVOD KUDOS KORNER
Thank you to all the kindergarten parents who have been coming into the classrooms to share their professions with the students. All the presentations have been engaging and interesting. Students have learned the art of umbrella-making, eyeglass-making, and have had the opportunity to touch preserved human and animal organs.
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Support VTT through purchasing on Amazon.
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MAD SCIENCE & LEGO ROBOTICS: Winter Registration Open NOW!
Grade K-4 Wednesdays (10 sessions): 3:30-4:30 Jan 27 - Apr 6, 2016 Lego WeDo Introductory Robotics
Grade K-2
Tuesdays: 3:30-4:45
Jan 5 - Mar 1, 2016
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Grade 3-7
Tuesdays: 3:30-4:45
Jan 5 - Mar 1, 2016
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ORDER YOUR PAC SHABBAT CHALLAH FOR TERM II
New session begins Friday, January 15, 2016 for a total of 12 pick ups. Deadline to order: Friday, January 8th Visit talmudtorah.com/challah
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We have a new Facebook group.
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At yesterday's Yachad assembly, our Grade 4 & 7 Chesed Clubs announced a BOLD initiative! They are trying to raise $10K to help the Abuyadaya Jewish community in Uganda purchase a school bus for their interfaith school (Jewish, Christian and Muslim). With a school bus, the students will eliminate their daily 10KM walk to school and will be better able to learn and thrive. If VTT raises $10K, a donor will come forward with another $10K to purchase the bus! Many students have already forfeited Hanukkah gifts and birthday presents to support this cause. Imagine if there's a school bus transporting students in Uganda, thanks to the efforts of the entire VTT community?
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STEM Wraps Up for Grade 3
Third grade students had their last STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) class with facilitators from Daedalos Academy this week. Next term, fifth grade students will be given the opportunity to explore this medium of learning. Registration for our after school LEGO Robotics programs (on Tuesdays) is now open. Wrote one parent, "My daughter took a summer program run by Daedalos academy and we were thrilled to see the same programming offered at VTT. She comes home "charged" and excited about the things she learned and programs they created. She is so curious to learn more and can't wait to build the next creation - pretty impressive considering she already had a full day of learning beforehand." Register at robocamps.ca
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Experiential learning at its finest!
As part of Kindergarten's unit on learning about their parents' jobs and professions, K3 students had the opportunity to see and touch a preserved pig's and human's heart, thanks to VTT parent Dr. Jonathon Leipsic (with help from VTT parent Dr. Andrew Merkur). Donning purple latex gloves, students gently touched and prodded the organs for a hand-on biology class. One particularly touching question from Carrie was "Does the heart pump blood when it's in love?" What do you think?
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Mazal Tov to Isabel Wiseman
Seventh grade student, Isabel Wiseman, celebrated her Bat Mitzvah at the Schara Tzedeck last Friday. Mazal tov to her parents, Natalie & Sam Wiseman. Believe it or not, today is the darkest day of the year! If we lived 500 years ago we would might be going to sleep right now because it would be totally dark, and tonight it is even an 'old moon', which means the moon is just a sliver. Being winter in Vancouver, on most nights there is so much cloud cover and rain, that we usually can't even see the moon. All this adds up to a lot of darkness. This is similar to life because there is a lot of darkness out there in the world.
Read Isabel's entire Torah commentary here
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When isn't a cute dog the star of the show?
Grade 4 students saw the live theatre production of The Wizard of Oz at Richmond's Gateway Theatre on Wednesday. They are learning the play in Hebrew so this was a great way for them to connect to the material. Toto, of course, was a highlight for all!
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Using typical classroom items to create complex machines
Grade 5 students have been learning about simple machines this term. This week, they had an opportunity to create a Rube Goldberg machine to demonstrate their knowledge.
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Grade 7 students explore photos from the Lodz Ghetto
Special thanks to docents (and VTT parents) Belinda Gutman and Cathy Paperny who guided our seventh grade students through the latest "Photos from the Lodz Ghetto" at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.
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Vancouver Talmud Torah is a traditional Jewish community day school dedicated to excellence in an engaging and respectful learning environment in which Jewish children can become proud, caring, responsible, and dedicated members of the Jewish people and Canadian society.
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Vancouver Talmud Torah gratefully acknowledges the ongoing support of the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver.
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ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH YACHAD, VTT's social responsibility initiative?
This month's theme is BRIYUT: HEALTHY LIVING
You can read more here
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