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November 2, 2012 |
17 Cheshvan 5773
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Chadashot: What's New at BYDS? |
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Fifth Grade Students Visit Jones Hall for Symphony Program
Combining Art and Music
 Fifth Grade students soaked up some prime Houston culture this morning with a field trip to Jones Hall to take part in this year's Houston Symphony performance for the schools. The theme this year was "Music Inspiring Art; Art Inspiring Music." Associate Conductor Robert Franz conducted and emceed the program before a fully packed Jones Hall, with hundreds of yellow buses lining the streets outside. The program included works by Mussorgsky, with excerpts from "Pictures at an Exhibition," Prokiev's Fifth Symphony, Ravel's "Tobeau de Couperin," and pieces from Debussy.
A central part of the conductor's lecture included the connection between the three primary colors that produce visual art and the four "orchestral colors" that produce the symphony music: strings, winds, brass, and percussion.
Throughout the culminating piece from Mussorgsky, the video screens high above the Jones Hal stage displayed a dazzling slide show of artwork created by Houston area elementary students. The artwork displayed was part of a city-wide assignment the Houston Symphony made available by sending out CD's of the Mussorgsky music to hundreds of schools, and in turn the city's children sent in over 20,000 pieces of art inspired by the music. Conductor Franz facilitated a question and answer session with the students toward the end of the program. Here are two sample questions from the young audience: "Was the harp the first string instrument ever made??" The harpist answered this question: yes, it was the first string instrument in history. Another question: "If you uncoil a French Horn, how long would it be?" The French Horn player answered: About 18 to 22 feet long!
It was a fantastic experience for our entire Fifth Grade class and teacher team!
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BYDS 4th Grade Tours Texas |
BYDS Fourth Grade Students Take Virtual Tour Throughout Texas
--special report to the Express, by 4th Grade Teacher Kelli Sydow--
 BYDS 4th graders took a virtual bus tour of Texas in Ms. Sydow's writing class today. The bus departed BYDS and toured all 4 of the natural regions of Texas. The tour made one stop in each of the 4 regions.
In the Mountains and Basins region, students disembarked the bus in Big Bend National Park and participated in a Science lesson about the animals that live there, such as Falcon, Javelina, Horned Toad, Mountain Lion and Tarantula.
In the Coastal Plains Region, students stepped off the bus to tour NASA and engage in interactive educational games; one pop assignment on this stop included a persuasive letter convincing NASA which of our BYDS 4th graders should accompany the astronauts on their next space mission. We are excited to learn who was chosen!
Next up was the Texas Panhandle and stopping in Palo Duro Canyon State Park where hiking and mountain biking took place. Students studied the park's climate including temperature and precipitation.
Finally, with the class singing Texas Our Texas (The Texas State Song), the bus made its way into the Central Plains Region stopping in Fort Worth, also known as "Cowtown." Students visited The Stockyards, The National Cowgirl Museum, and The Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame. While there, students were treated to poetry and songs written by cowboys as a way to entertain themselves and get through the long lonely nights on the cattle trail.
Sad to leave the company of crooning cowboys, and barely able to drag their exhausted selves back onto the bus, our intrepid day trippers slept peacefully in their seats, sweet smiles lighting their angelic faces as the wheels on the bus turned round and round ... delivering them back home to you.
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BYDS Admissions Open House |
Family Open House:
BYDS to Host Admissions Event
Sunday, November 11, 4pm-6pm with Free Pizza!
The BYDS admissions outreach team, including members of our BYDS Parent Ambassadors, is enthusiastically planning for a big Family Open House event for all prospective parents. The admissions event will take on a new welcoming approach this year--the doors will open up on a Sunday afternoon, with pizza, refreshments, and a chance to tour throughout the school facility and meet teachers, parents, and staff.
We are expressly inviting all of our Early Childhood families who are looking ahead to elementary school for their children!
Current BYDS parents--would you like to help us at the Family Open House, and bring your kids, too? For more information, contact Julie Bortnick at 713-666-1884, or email her at jbortnick@bethyeshurun.org.
CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR EVENT ON FACEBOOK
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Meet your friends, bring playdates and families to support this easy and yummy fundraiser!
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BYDS Donates to Houston Food Bank |
 Between the 567 pounds of food that the kids brought to school that week AND the donation from The Market ($1,800), we purchased 5,880 meals for Houston Food Bank recipients. Everyone should be proud.
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Dear BYDS Families and Friends,
Many thanks to all of our Annual Giving Participants--see current list below.
Very soon you will be receiving the official invitation for this year's Annual Gala, and we are offering a means to handle both your annual gift and your Gala tickets by way of one of our combo packages. You may pledge online through My Backpack, mail/drop off your gift, or click into this Annual Giving Fund site to see the package support levels for Annual Giving and Gala:
Remember that all BYDS Annual Giving participants will receive an auto "BYDS" magnet--see pic below:
Click Here to Donate Now and Get a Car Magnet.
Please contact Marci Gilbert for more information or with questions.
Thanks again to our supporters who have already made their annual gift!
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NOVEMBER
Friday, 2nd - 5th Grade Field Trip, Dress Uniform
Sunday, 4th - Daylight Savings Time Fall Back One Hour
Monday, 5th - Staff Development, NO BYDS
Tuesday, 6th - $ Free Dress, 5th Grade to Beren Academy 9:30am
Wednesday, 7th - EC/ES Dad's Breakfast Pulaski Rauch from 7:30 to 7:45 a.m.
Thursday, 8th - Parent Education #2 at 9 am
Sunday, 11th - Prospective Parent Open House 4pm - 6pm
Tuesday, 20th - Thanksgiving Program: ES 9am, EC 10:30, Dismissal Following Program, No EDC/ASA
Wednesday 21st thru Friday, 23rd - Thanksgiving Holiday, No BYDS
Friday, 30th - ES 2nd Grade Shabbat Service and Dinner 6 pm
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| Welcome- Directory Addition |
We have a new child in Ms.Hayley and Ms. Elaine's 3's class:
Child: Ananya Bhamre
Parents: Bipeenchandra & Smita Bhamre
Tel: 281-460-4471
Email: bipeenchandra@yahoo.com |
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Yasher Koach to all students who led the Tfillot this past two week:
Chazzanim/Chazzaniot: Misha Berry, Taya Kol, Claire Frankfort, Eli Cowan, Eliana Haas, Joshua Kaminsky, Brett Bazarsky, Daniel Malev, Alex Lavine, Cassidy Rubenstein, Jack Greenberg
Torah readers: Josh Erani, Peter Berry
Aliyot: Aaron Berry, Jack Greenberg, Eli Cowan
Gabbaim : Brett Bazarsky, Daniel Malev
Yasher Koach to our Kabbalat Shabbat leaders last Friday:
Koby Sheldon, Sophie Sorkin, Noa Strauss, Micah Guttman, Hayden Deutsch
*To follow our services schedule and assigned leaders please go to http://byds.org/academics/jewish-community-highlights/judaic-studies
- Mensch of the Week
- We started our character education program which includes a monthly value that will be discussed during the school day and during services. Our November theme is Kehilah (community) and we emphasize the importance hospitality, friendship and living in a community.
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Number of the students presented high values of kindness and entered the Mensch Box (which is located in the Administartion lobby):
Sammy Berman - 2nd grade - getting 2 of his friends backpacks at service.
Aria Jochnau - 3rd - copying 2 friends home assignments for them when they left for a doctor appointment. Such a mitzvah!
Ryan Diamond - 2nd - helping put everyone's work in their Hebrew folder.
Willa Berry - 2nd - showing a friend how to take an AR test.
Maya Friedberg - 2nd - helping put everyone's work in their Hebrew folder.
Riley Levine - 1st - Letting a friend go first on a ride during our field trip.
Hannah Swartz - 1st - moving to sit with a friend who was sitting all alone on the school bus.
Jake Levy - 1st - moving to another table so his friend would not be sitting by himself.
Tzedakah
Thanks for the wonderful participation this past week. 100% Tzedakah was collected by all classes grades K-5!
Thanks to Sam Rosen and Harvey Gibbs for coordinating this weeks' project. We continue to collect coins every week and we are very excited to see such an overwhelming participation. The students will decide be the end of the semester where these monies should go to.
Because of a few Fridays off, we will update the schedule for the Kufsat Shabbat. Please contact your child's teacher if you need more information about the Shabbat box schedule. |
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