GAN ALIYA
Gan Aliya is a child-centered learning environment led by nationally renowned educator Rabbi Jonathan Rietti. Students receive customized lesson plans that track their respective abilities and leverage their strengths. Our Montessoritrained teachers lovingly facilitate each child s active engagement with developmentally appropriate challenges. Gan Aliya students develop a deep connection with Hashem through our integrated curriculum, which includes English, Math, Science, Social Skills, Daily Living Skills and Music as well as Hebrew, Chumash, Character Refinement, Taryag Mitzvos, Prayer, and Jewish History. Our warm and innovative approach builds self-confidence, strong Jewish identity, and a tremendous love of learning.
Sequencing the Jewish History Timeline Good Shabbos! Seven Days of Creation
Dramatizing the Parsha Avraham Waits for Visitors at His Tent Avraham Tends to His Guests Rivka Draws Water for Eliezer and His Camels Gan Aliya takes a unique approach to early Jewish education in which children deeply experience the reality of Hashem and the truth and beauty of the Torah. Our co-founder and curriculum director, Rabbi Jonathan Rietti, has developed hundreds of Judaic and Hebrew learning materials designed to facilitate self-paced learning and access multiple learning pathways. The Torah curriculum includes dramatizing the weekly Torah portion, practicing Middos Tovos (good character traits) and Ahavas Yisrael (Love for all Jews), expressing our prayers and appreciation to Hashem, learning the 613 Mitzvos of the Torah, visualizing the timeline of Jewish History, and internally experiencing Emuna Chushis (genuinely feeling Hashem s love for the child and His plan for the world).
Children at Gan Aliya develop literacy in Hebrew and English. Children learn at their own pace, using a variety of visual, tactile and auditory stimuli to master both alphabets, develop phonetic awareness, hone listening skills, improve vocabulary and begin reading and writing. Becoming proficient in these areas enables them to communicate confidently through writing and speech. Phonetic Rhyming
Math activities at Gan Aliya span counting, arithmetic, working memory, graphing and geometry. Using a wide range of concrete materials, children practice number formation, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Each child learns at his own developmentally appropriate pace. + =
This category encompasses many aspects of the world that surrounds us, including Science, Geography, Social Studies, Art and Music. Discovering plants and animals broadens children s knowledge and appreciation of our environment. Immersion in art and music develops their creative side, while enhancing cognitive and emotional skills. Through these subjects, children learn about their own culture as well as the cultures of other people.
What could be more practical than learning the skills one needs for daily life? In this section of the classroom, children learn basic movements (such as pouring, folding and cutting); self-care and cleanliness (such as handwashing and sweeping); gracefulness and courtesy in social interactions; and control of self-movement. These activities help foster coordination, concentration, and self-confidence. They prepare the children s minds and bodies for future learning.
Each sensorial activity isolates one specific quality for the children to experience through their senses. Using targeted manipulatives, the children learn to differentiate various textures, sizes, weights, temperatures, sounds, and smells.
GAN ALIYA In partnership with Congregation Ohab Zedek Upper West Side Location @ Congregation Ohav Sholom 270 West 84th Street, Second Floor, NY, NY 10024 mailing address: 126 East 56th Street, Floor 32, New York, NY 10022 tel: 310-922-1745 I fax: 212-644-9097 admissions@ganaliya.com I www.ganaliya.com