Ely Cole (Class of '01) on the birth of a son and to grandparents Stuart

   and Marilyn Cole and great grandmother, Leonore Zusman

Emily Sobol (Class of '10) on her marriage to Noam Polster

Nathan Lever (8th Grade Class of '98) and Rebecca (Lever) Ribakow (8th

   Grade Class of '00) on the marriage of their sister Kayla Lever to Yehuda

   Schugerman

Rabbi Ben Mellman (8th Grade Class of '76) on the birth of two

   granddaughters, Sarah, daughter of Zalman and Chaya Frager, and

   Adina, daughter of Esti and Shlomo Bechhofer

The CTA Varsity Boys' Basketball team is headed to the Maimondes School in Brookline, Massachusetts over this coming weekend of January 22-25, for a tournament which includes athletes from five other Jewish day schools.  Games will be streaming on Youtube and Facebook at the following links:  

https://www.facebook.com/maimohoops or https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS5jrCWmUqB6aVRQxpbR1wQ/feed?view_as=public

CTA is scheduled to play at the following game times:

Thursday, January 22 at 4 pm vs. Maimonides School

Friday, January 23 at 9:30 am vs. Kohelet Yeshiva

Saturday, January 24 at 8 pm vs. Beren Academy

Championship Games will be held on Sunday

Try to watch the games and support our team:  David Polster, Ioni Wolfson, David Wolfson, Harry Bernzweig, Josh Needleman, Avi Kahn, Zach Sukienik!  Go Lions!

Everyone's buzzing with excitement!   On February 3 CTA's Lower School will meet and greet children's book illustrators Jeanette and Christopher Canyon!  Native to Ohio and longtime residents of German Village, the Canyons are both successful artists.  By sharing how their illustrations develop from ideas to the pages of picture books, Christopher and Jeanette Canyon hope to inspire children to bring their own stories to life through their words and pictures.  We look forward to their visit!

Christopher has illustrated many books and also teaches Children's Book Illustration at the Columbus College of Art & Design, which is where the couple met more than 20 years ago.  He uses various artistic styles to reflect the tone of the book.   Jeanette entered the world of children's literature after many years as an art educator at Columbus School for Girls.  She tells stories through her illustrations using her love of color and sculpting.  

The children were first introduced to the illustrators and their books during Library.  We discussed how the words and pictures work together to tell a story and provide information. They really enjoyed Christopher's playful pictures in his books illustrating two John Denver songs, Take Me Home Country Roads and Grandma's Feather Beds.  They saw how the pictures in Stickeen: John Muir & the Brave Little Dog tell a true, suspense-filled adventure.

Now the children and their teachers are using the literature to support learning in the classroom.  Teachers are using them as resources to enhance their curriculum and motivate students.  We're even integrating the books across the curriculum with their natural connection to Music and Art!

Children will have the opportunity to purchase autographed books by Christopher and Jeanette Canyon.  Look for more information about ordering in next week's Dateline.   To learn more about the illustrators go to www.jeanetteandchristophercanyon.com.

• davening every other week, Tefillah B'yachad  together with the 3rd and 5th grades.
• studying from a beautiful color workbook which teaches us about the prayers we say every morning.
• using a rainstick during the month of Cheshvan to remind us to add mashiv haruach and veten tal u'matar which asks Hashem to give Israel the right amount of rain. They also created a bulletin board telling why water is so important and what it means to us.
• creating a movie where the students themselves are explaining theBirchat HaShachar, the 16 brachot that thank Hashem for, among other things, giving us eyes that see and bodies that can stand upright and move.

Sometimes the fourth grade takes davening "on the road." During Sukkot, they davened in the succah. They have davened in the gym to emphasize how wonderful are the bodies Hashem has made for us. They want to daven outside to better appreciate the world that Hashem has created, but that's going to have to wait until the weather is warmer. And, several times a month, they daven in the computer lab. Yes, the computer lab. Morah Sharon has created a PowerPoint of shacharit and another one that explains the various brachot of the amidah. The pictures and special effects not only make davening more fun and interesting, they also remind us what the words we are saying mean. It is so much easier to daven with feeling when we understand who we are talking to and what we are asking Him for.

It has been a time-honored Jewish tradition to give tzedakah in recognition of important events. Todah Rabah to the following for their donation to:

To the Scholarship Fund:

Andrew and Tricia Rosenstein in memory of David Myers, in memory

   of Stuart Shapiro's mother, and refuah shlaima to Bob Lane

Gary Liebesman and Stacy Leeman in honor of Bob Lane

Alan, Sara, and Aaron Shatz; Jeff and Tonia Levison and Sophia, Meira,

   and Reuven in honor of Patty Sapp, for all you've done, for all you do!

Robert and Amy Book in honor of Jay Schottenstein and Joey

   Schottenstein

Colin McGuire in honor of Jonathan Schottenstein

To the Annual Giving Fund:

Ben Mango in honor of the Bernard Ruben Family

To the March of the Living Fund:

Paul and Karan Tanenbaum in memory of Miriam Paine, Gleb Simakovsky, Anne Fisher, David Myers, and Smadar Import's grandmother

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