NEMJDS SchoolNews

October 17, 2013 13 cheshvan 5774

In This Issue

- Exciting upcoming week

- Rosh Chodesh Ruach

- Youth Philanthropy Breakfast

Upcoming at the Day School...

October 23 - 30

NEMJDS Book Fair

October 24, 5:30pm

Family Fried Chicken Dinner

October 27, 11 - 2pm

Green Day

November 1

Individual Pictures

November 5

Rosh Chodesh Kislev -

wear your purple

Rosh Chodesh shirts!

November 5, 7-8am

Youth Philanthropy Breakfast

November 8

Veteran's Day (3rd grade)

Early Kabbalat Shabbat begins - 11:00am

Early Friday dismissal begins - 2:30pm

Links You Can Use

Our Website

Box Tops Bring Cash

PTA@nemjds.org

Feedback Welcome!

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Now baking kosher Challahs each week!

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AN INCREDIBLE WEEK IN OCTOBER ....

Family Fried Chicken Dinner - Oct. 24th, 5:30

Click here for the form.

Go Green Family Fair -

Sunday, Oct. 27th

11 - 2pm

Join our school community and pre-school friends for a celebration of the environment with crafts, treats and games. Swing by the LJCC to enjoy the 11th annual Friedman Family Foundation LJCC Jewish Food Festival.

NEMJDS Book Fair -

Oct. 23 - 30

We're excited to be hosting the Scholastic Book Fair at the N.E. Miles Jewish Day School this year. Reading is an essential life skill for work and play and is an important part of lifelong learning. We are proud to have students who are passionate about reading.

BEHIND THE SCENES AT ASFA

NEMJDS Upper School students were treated to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to visit ASFA and see the behind the scenes working of a life size horse puppet who will be starring in the upcoming Broadway in Birmingham's production of War Horse. The puppet was created in South Africa by Handspring Puppet Company and took 7 months to create. It is manipulated by three actors who also produce very believable sound effects for the horse. "It was amazing that the actors controlling the puppet seemed to disappear as we concentrated on the horse puppet. It felt very real!", said Adison Berger, 6th grade.

Upper School visits ASFA

'Joey' the star of War Horse.

SAVE THE DATE ....

Please mark your calendars and save the date for our

Youth Philanthropy Breakfast

Tuesday, November 5th, 7 - 8am

Kyra Berger and Emma Peller at pancake breakfast

Kyra Berger and Emma Peller enjoying pancakes at breakfast last year.

*Proceeds go toward the Upper School Abroms Youth Philanthropy Initiative.

PTA FUNDRAISER ENDS MONDAY ....

We're wrapping up our PTA Wrapping Paper Sale!

Please be sure to get your orders finalized and input on the Innisbrook website before Monday, October 21st.

If you are not up for selling, please consider making a donation to the NEMJDS PTA (checks can be dropped off at the front office). Either way, you are supporting our incredible school and the important work that is done by our PTA (teacher gifts, teacher appreciation, Green Day).

If you have questions, contact our PTA co-presidents, Jenifer Thornton and Rebecca White, at pta@nemjds.org

And the gifts just keep coming from our school Amazon Wish Lists .....

Thank you to our generous parents for our Lummi Sticks music teaching CD! Second Grade can't wait to start learning!

Keep checking in on Amazon to see what your children's class needs. It's easy to help out the school ....

1. Click on the Amazon logo below.

2. Move your mouse over the 'Wish List' tab at the top.

3. Click 'Find a Wish List'

4. Type in N.E. Miles Jewish Day School

5. Click on any of the wishlists to see what teachers need for their classrooms!

Thanks in advance for your generosity and support of the school!

KABBALAT SHABBAT

Please join us for

Kabbalat Shabbat, next Friday

at 11:25 am.

Avot: Yoav Yammer, Noah Hagedorn

Imahot: Hannah Gorelick

Kabbalat Shabbat is sponsored by David Gorelick and Naomi Feldman, in honor of their grand daughter, Hannah Gorelick.

If you would like to sponsor a Kabbalat Shabbat in honor of your child or a special event, click here for the on-line form.

SHABBAT TABLE TALK - Vayera

Learn about this week's Parsha ..... Click here.

A gift for our children today, tomorrow and forever;

create a legacy through the

N.E. Miles Jewish Day School Endowment

Call Lynn Raviv, Development Director at 879-1068 or

Sally Friedman, Birmingham Jewish Foundation at 803-1519

Click here for more information