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Flu season is here!
Parents: If your child is exhibiting any signs of flu/illness, please keep him/her home and protect the rest of the school from contagion. Germs spread quickly. Help us stay healthy.
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Dates to Remember
Light Shabbat candles at
4:24 p.m.;
Shabbat ends at 5:36 p.m.
Seussical Rehearsal
Sunday, Jan 17, 1-5 p.m.
Come meet Rabbi Kasten
(School Rabbi/Director of Jewish Life candidate)
Monday, Jan 18, 8:15-8:45 am
VTT Learning Commons
Pro-D/Collaborative Planning Day--NO SESSIONS
Wednesday, January 20
Seussical Rehearsal Wednesday, January 20, 10-3
PAC Meeting at Large--Everyone welcome! Thursday, January 21
7:00 p.m.
VTT Learning Commons
Come learn about Mindful Parenting with Dr. Jake Locke
RSVP to vttpac@gmail.com
Seussical Rehearsal Sunday, January 24, 1-5 p.m.
Tu B'Shevat (Israel's National Arbor Day) Monday, January 25
Yachad Assembly Monday, January 25, 10:30 am
Come to school dressed in green and brown (tree colours) for Tu B'Shevat
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Community Calendar
Omnitsky Kosher is hiring front counter staff.
Read the job details here
The JCC is having a membership sale! Jan 11-29 Great deals! Details here11th Annual Vancouver Raoul Wallenberg DayHonouring Chief Dr. Robert Joseph and following by the film, Carl Lutz - The Forgotten Hero Sunday, January 17, 1:30 p.m. JCC Wosk Auditorium International Holocaust Remembrance Day Film Screening: My Italian Secret: The Forgotten HeroesThursday, January 21, 7 p.m. JCC Rothstein Theatre SHABBAT 100 at UBCJoin 100 faculty, students, alumni and staff for a memorable Shabbat dinner Friday, January 22, 6 p.m. Fiddler on the Roof is coming to the Massey Theatre, starring VTT parent, Warren Kimmel. Sunday, April 10 is Family Day: buy two tickets, get two child tickets FREE!Call the box office at 604.521.5050 If you are aged 9-19 and love to sing, dance, act and perform, Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance is auditioning for its summer program (July & Aug) Deadline to apply: April 1 Details here
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DON'T FORGET TO RECORD YOUR PAC HOURS!
All families are required to complete 10 volunteer hours per academic year. New volunteer opportunities coming soon. Purim & Passover are big holidays for us with many jobs to fill! Curious to check your PAC hours to date?
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Support VTT through purchasing on Amazon.
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WITH SINCERE GRATITUDE
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We wanted to advise our VTT community that Ilana Shapira, VTT's Principal of Judaic Curriculum & Instruction, is no longer with our school. We sincerely thank her for her service to the school and wish her all the best as she pursues new endeavours.
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COME MEET RABBI MARC KASTEN
Rabbi Marc Kasten will be visiting Vancovuer Talmud Torah on January 18 & 19 as a candidate for the School Rabbi/Director of Jewish Life position at our school. Parents are welcome to come and meet him on Monday, January 18th between 8:15 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. in the learning commons. Stop by to say hello!
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HAVE YOU HEARD OF MINDFUL PARENTING?
The VTT PAC is excited to welcome Dr. Jake Locke to Vancouver Talmud Torah on Thursday, January 21st at 7:00 p.m. Dr. Locke is a UBC Clinical Professor on Active Staff at BC Children's Hospital for the past 20 years who specializes in Child Psychiatry. He is involved with mindfulness based research, teaches medical students and residents, works in the Outpatient Clinic at BCCH and provides outreach services to several smaller communities.
Dr. Locke is donating his time to address our parents at the VTT AGM. This is not to be missed!
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ANNUAL GRADE 2 SOCK, TOOTHBRUSH & TOOTHPASTE DRIVE
It is a Grade 2 annual tradition to collect NEW socks, toothbrushes and toothpaste to help those less fortunate than us. The collection will be given to Jewish Women International and the Jewish Food Bank to be distributed through these organizations.
The drive runs from now until Monday, February 1st.
Last year 300 NEW PAIRS of socks were collected. Help second graders exceed this goal this year!
Special thanks to VTT parent and dentist, Dr. Sherri Wise and her daughter Eden, for getting us started with a substantial donation of dental hygiene products.
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We have a new Facebook group.
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PRAYERS FOR HEALING NEEDED
Yesterday afternoon, our beloved Gregoria, one of the kitchen helpers for Jewcy Cuisine for the last several years, had a serious medical emergency. She is not out of the woods yet; please include Gregoria in your misheberach (healing) prayers over Shabbat. We extend our support to her dear friend (and fellow kitchen helper), Rosie. These two women give so much to VTT. Everyone's prayers are needed!
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Grade 7 Chesed Club Initiatives for 2016
Two initiatives of the Grade 7 Chesed Club are as follows:
1) Welcome to Canada Family Baskets through the Immigrant Services Society of BC
Help welcome refugees to BC by donating to the family basket initiative. The baskets contain basic toiletries, household items and food, which will be delivered to our new neighbours when they arrive.
Please bring the following items in paper or plastic gift bags with handles:
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Grocery store voucher card
Calling card
Conditioner
Shampoo
Dates
Dishrags
Facial Tissue
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Tea bags
Sugar
Laundry detergent
Olive Oil
Rice (Basmati Brown)
Cookies
Honey
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Instant Coffee
Toilet bowl cleaner
Toilet paper
Toothbrush
Toothpaste
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2) Eversafe Ranch Outreach Society
This organization provides support to families who due to unforeseen circumstances have to start again from scratch. They are either living in a shelter, transitioning from a shelter to secondary housing, or making that final leap to a new place of their own. In most cases the families they serve have nothing but the clothes on their backs.
- Donations can be brought in small boxes or bags:
- Small appliances such as: microwaves, toasters, and coffee makers
- Housewares such as: pots and pans, utensils, dishes, glasses and mugs
- Towels and linens
- New cleaning supplies and tools (brooms, dustpan, etc.)
- Toys, puzzles, and games for children
- Gas, grocery, or entertainment gift-cards
**Grade 7 Chesed Club students will be accepting donations in the parkade and front foyer of the school next week on Mon, Tues, and Thursday (January 18, 19 & 21) at both morning and afternoon drop offs. Donations will also be accepted at Wednesday's Seussical Rehearsal.
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Expanding our perspective and embracing a positive attitude
As able bodied people, it is easy to take the world around us for granted. Yesterday, 23-year old motivational speaker Jessica Kruger visited our Grade 7 students to share her very personal story of losing the ability to freely move about when an accident left her a quadriplegic at age 15. Despite many trials and tribulations--as well as some serious health complications--Jessica graduated from SFU with a major in English, is the only female player on BC's provincial wheelchair rugby team, was the first "disable d" model for cosmetics giant, Lise Watier, runs a cake decorating business (http://alittlesomethingsweet.ca), has travelled all over the world, and is a speaker for the Rick Hansen Foundation. She also works for BC Wheelchair Sports and tutors English, when she has spare time. Her current goal? To make Canada's national wheelchair rugby team!
And what was Jessica's opinion of our students? She was impressed by their excellent questions--thoughtful, inquisitive, sensitive--more so than any other organization she has visited. Kol Ha'Kavod! (And if you're curious about the challenges of flying, traveling, and eating out in restaurants in a wheelchair, our Grade 7s have some of the answers.)
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Roots & Wings Havdallah Evening--A VTT First!
Every year our students create outstanding family history projects, otherwise known as Roots & Wings. For the first time ever, we gave families the opportunity to see ALL the projects, not just those of their children. Last Saturday night, over 200 people crowded into the old gym to mark the separation between Shabbat and the rest of the week (havdallah) and to hear excerpts from students' projects. A special thank you to Morah Lisa and Morah Ellen for facilitating the prayers and songs. Click on the collage above to see more photos.
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Reinforcing the Concepts
As part of their science unit, students recreated the digestive system on t-shirts--a sure way to remember the material!
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STEM studies launch in Grade 5
Thursday was the first Lego Robotics Mindstorm class in Grade 5, facilitated by Daedalos Academy. The lessons will get progressively more challenging with time.
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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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