Helfman Religious School - Curriculum

 

What makes our curriculum unique?
What makes our curriculum special?

The curriculum is goals and objectives oriented. Each grade level has general goals and objectives for the year which help us evaluate our successes and failures. Each grade level concentrates on a few specific themes each year, so the curriculum becomes more focused and streamlined.

Our curriculum is "child-centered," focused on issues from the child′s perspective and is designed to eliminate repetition of subject matter as much as possible. We will have "Holiday Happenings" on most Jewish holidays. We come together, either as a grade, several grades combined or as a whole school to celebrate and experience the Jewish holidays.

In addition, the holidays will continue to be experienced through the music curriculum, computers, storytelling, and art projects.

 










Pre-K:
God
Shabbat
Kindergarten:
Doing Mitzvot -
     God's
     Commandments:
     What are they?
Holidays and
      Mitzvot
1st Grade:
Jewish Symbols
The Synagogue
Rituals &
     Ritual Objects
Israel
2nd Grade:
Bible
3rd Grade:
Celebrating the      Holidays
4th Grade:
Jewish Life Cycles
Discovering and
   understanding God
5th Grade:
Jewish Heroes,
     Jewish Values
6th Grade:

Seeing the World
      through
     Jewish Eyes
Israel
Parashat Hashavua

7th Grade:
(3 mini-courses)
Why Be Different?
Holocaust
Jewish Texas
8th Grade:
Dor Chadash -
     Coming of Age
9th Grade:
(3 mini-courses)
My Generations
Modern Israel
Jewish Ethics
10th Grade:
Confirmation
Tzedakah &
     Social Justice
Comparative      Judaism
Holocaust and
     the Human
     Condition
11th Grade:
Comparative      Religions
Jewish Civics
12th Grade:
Jewish Life 201
Graduation

 

 

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