Ki Seitzei September 1, Hillel Hilights. Welcome Back to a Great Year!

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1 Ki Seitzei September 1, 2017 Hillel Hilights Welcome Back to a Great Year!

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3 Welcome to our New Families This year we welcome 10 new families to Hillel Academy, adding 15 new students to our classrooms from preschool to middle school. Please give a big welcome to our new families: Yehuda and Chana Aminov - Esther Bracha (K) Andrew and Miriam Baxt - Deborah (PS) Rabbi Michael and Sarah Bram - Devorah (6), Chaya 3),Elisheva (2) and Avigail (K) Rabbi Shmuel and Sara Halpern - Eliyahu Simcha (PS) Yair and Raizy Hines - Penina (K) Rabbi Yehoshua and Elisheva Hoffman - Ahuva Nava (PS) Rabbi Yanky and Esty Orloff - Yisroel (3) Binyamin (1) and Yosef Shalom (PS) Rabbi Yomin Postelnik - Yeshaya (5) Abo and Ktziya Simonov - Esther (K) Chaim Shmuel and Shifra Yehudis Stitzer - Esther Bracha (PS) Welcome to our new Faculty Members We are excited to welcome 10 new faculty members this year. In addition to classroom teachers and aides, we are delighted to be able to add the position of guidance counselor due to a generous grant from the MB Glassman Foundation. Mrs. Shoshana Ort, LSW, and Rabbi Shaya Greiniman will work with students, teachers and parents to help our students in a number of areas. Kindergarten GS- Ms Karine Drechsel 2nd Grade GS- Mrs. Kineret Abrams 3rd Grade Boys GS - Mr. David Rawson 4th Grade Girls Kodesh - Mrs. Hudis Chill 5th Grade Girls GS - Mrs. Sara Bram 6th Grade Language Arts/ Social Studies - Ms Jaime Pillette 7th Grade Language Arts - Ms Erica Catlett Guidance Counselors - Rabbi Yeshayahu Greiniman, Mrs. Shoshana Ort Classroom Aides - Chaya Devorah Schwab, Jennifer Ross From the Principal's Desk... Dear Parents, The first few days of school are all about students and teachers getting to know each other, the establishment of classroom and school wide routines and procedures, and nurturing the seeds of learning and friendship that will flourish over the school year into fruits of success. B H, all of these were evident on the first day of school and this morning as I made the rounds of the classrooms and met with groups of students at assemblies. At our teacher in-service sessions earlier this week, I challenged our teachers to cultivate and build upon the excitement and enthusiasm students display on the first day of school so that

4 these positive feelings are still apparent in the month of June. I also asked them to pay attention to those students who don t seem so excited about school and to think about how to provide these students with meaningful learning activities that are within their range of competency. It is my belief that when students are engaged in such activities, they feel good about themselves and what they are doing, look forward to coming to school and have no reason to act out. Another highlight of our in-service sessions was a workshop that explored Executive Functioning Disorder. This workshop was presented by Cyle Feingold, Founder and CEO of Results Learning. Mr. Feingold walked us through a deeper understanding of EFD and strategies to help students contend with this issue. While these strategies were specifically designed to help students with EFD, they are great for all students (and adults). The buzz generated by this workshop was extremely positive and many of our teachers will be implementing these strategies in their classroom as the year begins. One of the things I missed most during summer vacation was the sound of students in the building. B H, that sound is back in Hillel and I couldn t be happier. As I visit classrooms each day to blow the Shofar I am greeted by the eager, smiling faces of your children. This year I recognize the vast majority of those faces and I hope to soon recognize every one of them. My Bracha to you as we start the year is that each of our children maximize his/her own unique academic, social and emotional potential to its fullest throughout this year and beyond! I wish you a great school year and a wonderful Shabbos! Rabbi Yisroel Goldbaum Schedule Reminder Hillel Updates No school for boys, this Sunday, Sept. 3. Monday, Sept. 4 - All students dismissed at 12 noon Wednesday, Sept. 6 - Meet the Teacher Night, 7-9 pm. Mazel tov Rabbi Yisroel and Rochel Goldbaum on the marriage of their daughter Rabbi Avraham and Kineret Abrams on their marriage Rabbi Aver and Chavi Jacobs on the bar mitzvah of their son, Michoel Mordechai and Elana Hoffman on the bar mitzvah of their son, Yaakov Lazer and Shulamis Muller on the bar mitzvah of their son, Elazar Rabbi Tzvi and Bracha Steinberg on the engagement of their daughter Yankie and Debbie Werther on the engagement of their daughter, Nechama Rabbi Moshe and Yehudis Heyman on the birth of a son Shlomo and Raacheli Fried on the birth of a daughter Isaac and Tamar Kravitz on the birth of a son Rabbi Tuvia and Tehilah Negreann on the birth of a boy Chaim Shmuel and Shifra Yehudis Stitzer on the birth of a boy Rabbi Chaim Tzvi and Rochel Krausz on the birth of a daughter Rabbi Dovid and Faigy Gertz on the birth of a boy

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