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Krieger Schechter Day School
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January 8, 2017
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8th Grade "Aladdin" Rehearsals Begin
8th graders begin Aladdin rehearsals with a script "table read." The performances will take place on March 14 and 15.
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News and Announcements
Inclement Weather and Delayed Opening Information for KSDS
Look HERE for details.
Tomorrow is Spirit Wear Day!
Show your school spirit by wearing your Spirit Wear or other KSDS garments, such as 5K Race shirts.
 CALL FOR PRESENTERS!- Middle School Learning Festival
Tuesday, February 14 - Thursday, February 16th
Our annual Middle School Learning Festival will take place on February 14th through 16th. The Learning Festival is a three-day experience--a break from the regular curriculum--during which students and faculty immerse themselves in thematic and Project Based Learning (PBL) activities. One of the goals of the Middle School Learning Festival, is to connect KSDS students with their local community. We are in need of presenters (or people who could connect us to presenters) who are willing to speak from expertise and/or experience on a variety of topics related to this year's theme: "The Brain."
Students will spend three days studying the following topics through teacher- and community member-led learning sessions at school:
If you are interested in participating, please
click
HERE.
Please contact Karen Booth at
[email protected] if you have any questions!
 Make-Up Session for School Photos--THIS Tuesday, January 10
Photographer Jim Webber will be returning to KSDS next month! If you would like to have your child's school photo redone during his visit, please contact Miriam at [email protected].
 Be a Sponsor for the 2017 "Schechter on the Move" 5K Race!
Want to Promote Your Business, Company or Firm? Be a 2017 5K Race Sponsor!
Be a sponsor for our annual Schechter on the Move 5K Race and get your company's name on our race shirt and other race materials. All proceeds go to KSDS scholarships. Last year we had over 700 participants and raised over $50,000. With your help, we anticipate we will be even more successful this year! Click
HERE for 2017 sponsorship levels and
HERE for a fillable sponsorship form.
If you need more information, please contact our 5K Race corporate sponsorship chairs, Randi Turkel (
[email protected]) and Melanie Wilder (
[email protected]).
Weekend Backpack Program--Food Donations Needed
Donations Accepted Through Wednesday, January 18
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Again this year, KSDS will be participating in the Weekend Backpack Program. We will be packing food into backpacks to be sent to two city schools: Tench Tilghman Elementary/Middle School and Collington Square Elementary/Middle School. During the week, these schools feed the children--many of whom are homeless--a breakfast, hot lunch, healthy fruit, and a sandwich before they leave at the end of the day. But on the weekends, many of these children are hungry. With your help, these backpacks will be filled with enough food to last the child and his/her family the entire weekend. Click HERE
to see what foods each KSDS grade is being asked to donate. Thank you for helping KSDS make a difference in our community!
Hot Lunch:
February Lunch Order Period Closes on Friday, January 20
 We are continuing our partnership with
www.orderlunches.com to process all of the hot lunch orders this year. To view an information about ordering hot lunches, look
HERE.
Please remember the order periods--we are not able to accept late orders. Each order period will open on the 5th, and close on the 20th, of the month prior to the month for which you are ordering.
Information about Salad Bar for MS students can be found
HERE.
 The "Box Tops for Education" Collection Continues!
Please Help Us Reach Our 2016-17 Collection Goal of 6,000 BTFE Coupons!
Keep on sending in Box Tops For Education coupons with your child to give to his or her teacher! It is an easy way for us to earn cash for our school. We need you to help us reach our goal!
KSDS Student Exhibit
Sunday, January 15 in the Lobby of the Gordon Center
Banners, posters, and other items created by KSDS students about peace, tolerance, and Dr. Martin Luther King will be on exhibit in the Gordon Center lobby on January 15, in connection with the Maccabeats / Naturally 7 MLK concert (details about the concert can be found in the "In Our Community" section below).
 Mark Your Calendars--Middle School Coffee House Night!
Tuesday, January 17 at 7 pm in the Krieger Auditorium
All Middle School parents, students, teachers, friends, grandparents and siblings are invited to join us for the annual MS Coffee House on January 17 in the Krieger Auditorium. The evening will feature our students' great talent in the arts:
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Performances by the Middle School music ensemble bands
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Songs from the MS Choir
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Performances from MS Drama classes
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Refreshments and desserts prepared by MS Cooking classes
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Displays of our students' work in sewing, art, the STEAM elective, and woodshop
We can't wait to have the entire MS community join together for an evening of fun, food, and fantastic talent!
It's a WrAP!
During the week of January 23 in their Writing Workshop classes, our Grade 5 students will be taking the WrAP, a standardized writing assessment designed and scored by the ERB company. The WrAP provides an objective evaluation of students' writing skills, including mechanics, organization, clarity, coherence, sentence structure/variety, and word choice, among others. The results provide our teachers and administrators with valuable information which will enable us to continue pursuing excellence in our writing program.
Family Fun Night at KSDS!
Save the Date--Saturday, February 11th
Beginning at 7 pm in the Esterson and the Krieger
Join KSDS families for an evening of food and fun with separate entertainment and activities for parents and kids! There is no charge for this event. Children should be age 4 and up. Middle School students can receive
Chesed hours for volunteering. If you have any questions, contact Aviva Schwartz at
[email protected].
 KSDS Athletics Spirit Wear Sweatshirts Are Available!
The order form can be found HERE
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Be Sure to Check Out the KSDS Facebook Page Often!
We are continually posting lots of fabulous pictures of KSDS events and activities. Don't forget to "Like" Us!
KSDS is Back on Twitter!
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After-School Athletics (Middle School)
KSDS Athletics Spirit Wear Sweatshirts Are Available!
The order form can be found
HERE.
Spring Sports
The sports offered in the Spring are Baseball, Softball and Track for Middle School students.
Intramural Co-ed Lacrosse for Grades 4 - 8
Please email me at
[email protected] by tomorrow, January 9th, to let me know if your son/daughter would be interested in participating in an intramural lacrosse program. The program would meet a couple of times per week during the Spring Season, with a "clinic" type of focus, to introduce the game of lacrosse and develop the fundamental skills of the game.
Basketball
Monday, Jan 9
Boys A Home vs Jemicy 3:30
Boys B OFF
Girls A and B practice 5:00-6:30
Study Hall 3:30-5:00
Tuesday, Jan.10(
Boys A at Odyssey 4:45
(Schedule Change)
Boys B off
(Schedule Change)
Girls A Home vs Jemicy 3:30
Girls B at Odyssey 3:30
Wednesday, Jan. 11
Boys A off
Boys B Home vs Jemicy 3:30
Girls A and B practice 5:15-6:30
Thursday, Jan 12
Boys A and B OFF
Girls A home vs Park 3:45
Girls B home vs Park 4:45
The days that a team has a late practice there will be a study hall available for the students. They should bring a snack and remain in the study hall the entire time.
All updated information can be found HERE at ksds.edu under "Athletics."
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 Tzedakah
Our January 13 Tzedakah collection will benefit the Save a Child's Heart Foundation. Based in Israel, SACH provides heart surgery and follow-up care to children from developing countries who have congenital heart defects--with no political, cultural, religious, or racial preference whatsoever. The organization also trains medical personnel from developing countries and has a long-term goal of establishing centers around the world where local medical personnel will be able to provide these life-saving services themselves.
For more information look HERE.
Cash and checks (made out to Save a Child's Heart) are welcomed.
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Mazal Tov To . . .
Blanca Berger Sollod, on her Bat Mitzvah this Shabbat at Beth Am Synagogue
We are so proud of . . .
LS teacher Sally Grobani, who donated a kidney last month to Jay Pintzuk, husband of our art teacher Brina Pintzuk. See the article in
JMORE magazine
HERE.
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PA News
Spirit Day - TOMORROW, January 9th
We look forward to seeing everyone's KSDS spirit wear tomorrow. The weather is especially right for our newest item--the KSDS knit winter hat.
Bunches of Lunches and Beyond--Our Gemilut Hasidim Continues
Please join the KSDS PA as we work to combat hunger in our Baltimore community. Our Weekend Backpack Program collection is now on. Check HERE to see what your child's grade is contributing to the backpacks. Please send in contributions to the Berman Lobby by
Wednesday, January 18th
. Thank you for your caring and generosity.
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8th Grade--View From the KSDS "Top"
Daniel Stoller ('17)
I have been going to Krieger Schechter for 13 years so I'm an expert by now! I know every shortcut around the school, tons of faculty, all the Middle School students and a lot of Lower School students. What this school has given me over the past thirteen years is a sense of community, but not just any community. In this community, there is a strong sense of comfort and trust, which is what a true community is. Through activities like painting the mural, Learning Festival projects, building the playground together, and other huge group activities, I made new relationships and learned the power and the importance of teamwork. We would work together, all contribute to one big group project, and somehow finish something in a month or less that would take a year or more for one person to do.
One of the greatest things about having your school be your community is that you can see everyone every weekday. Every Monday through Friday, I build deeper relationships with people of all ages and that's why I have felt more of a sense of this incredible community the longer I have been at Krieger Schechter. I find it unbelievable that I have gotten the opportunity to make over a hundred friends, older and younger, and that is special to me.
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Mark Your Calendar
Monday, January 9
Tuesday, January 10
Wednesday, January 11
- MS Geography Bee, 8:35 - 9:36 am in the Krieger
Thursday, January 12
- Grades 6 and 7 Reading Buddy field trip, 9:30 - 11 am
Friday, January 13
- Grade 5 MLK program, 8:45 - 9:45 am
Monday, January 16
Tuesday, January 17
Wednesday, January 17
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In Our Community
 Tot Shabbat This Friday!
GECEC Music Room from 9:15 to 10am
Bring your little ones (ages 0-3) to an interactive Tot
Shabbat. Join Melissa Berman (Chizuk's Young Families Coordinator) for songs, puppets stories and more!
Camp Ramah in the Poconos Lunch Get-Together
THIS Tuesday, January 10th
During the students' regular lunch time, KSDS students who attend Camp Ramah are invited to have lunch with camp representatives. Note to parents of Lower School students: If your child is not a current camper, and you would like your child to attend this lunch to learn more about how they can build lifelong Jewish connections, please email your child's homeroom teacher to grant permission for your child to attend. Click
HERE to learn more about Camp Ramah in the Poconos.
 Free Breakfast/Workshop to Honor the Birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sunday, January 15 from 10 am - Noon at Chizuk Amuno Congregation
Join us at the breakfast and the "Talking to Family and Friends About Racism" workshop to learn and practice tools to assist us in interrupting racism and other "isms" in our lives. Take home resources to continue your learning. This program will be facilitated by Molly Amster, Baltimore Director for Jews United for Justice and Facilitator for Baltimore Racial Justice Action. Look HERE to see the flyer.
Reservations are required
. Go HERE for more information or to RSVP online, or call
410-486-6400
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 Lunch and Learn With Rabbi Debi Wechsler
Thursday, January 19 at Noon at the University of Maryland Medical System
Kosher Bag Lunch Provided
KSDS Parents at Johns Hopkins Hospital or University of Maryland Medical System--
why let your children have all the fun of Jewish learning? Join our downtown lunch and learn groups led by Rabbi Wechsler. This year at our downtown lunch and learn series we continue to explore conflict through the lens of Jewish texts. RSVP to [email protected].
This program is supported by the Stanley and Lillian Wilen Fund for Adult Jewish Education. We are grateful to them for their generosity.
 Help the Sisterhood Bake ALL of Chizuk Amuno's Hamantaschen!
Baking Sessions Begin On January 20. Look
HERE for a Detailed Schedule of Preparation Sessions and Contact Andrea Polsky at
[email protected] to Sign Up.
Based on the wonderful response we got from last year's successful Hamantaschen Bake Sale, Chizuk Amuno has asked the Sisterhood to bake all of the Shul's hamantaschen this year--that's an extra 2,200 cookies! The profits help our schools, so we need our school parents and grandparents to help make, sell, and of course buy these Purim treats. For safety reasons, we are only taking volunteers who are 11 years and older; all children must also be accompanied by an adult. Students can earn
mitzvah
hours for participating in making the cookies and selling them.
Please let Andrea Polsky (
[email protected]
) know which dates you would like to help. We need LOTS of volunteers but due to space constraints in the kitchen, we can't have too many at once. All dough making and baking will be done in the Krieger Kitchen this year. The dough we use is delicious and the fun we have baking together is fabulous! Please join us!
 Sisterhood Mah Jongg Cards Available Now
Please order no later than Wednesday, January 25
Look HERE for information and an order form.
MLK CELEBRATION CONCERT @ THE GORDON CENTER
Featuring The Maccabeats and Naturally 7
Sunday, January 15 (use code KSDSMLK and get $5 off each ticket)
The second show at 5:30 p.m. is
almost sold out (the first show is
completely sold out)
Doors open an hour before each show.
In advance - $18 per child (up to age 15); $26 per adult
At the door - $23 per childe (up to age 15); $31 per adult
BONUS: KSDS Grade K-8 student posters, banners, and other items on the topics of peace, tolerance, and Dr. Martin Luther King will be displayed in a student showcase in the lobby prior to the shows!
 CAC Sisterhood Presentation: Women Planting The Seeds of Change
Tuesday, February 7 at 7 pm
Rabbi Wechsler will lead us in a
Tu B'Shevat Seder as we focus on how women of our Chizuk Amuno family are making positive changes in our local community and the world at large. Krieger Schechter Day School alumna Celia Neustadt ('04), Director of The Inner Harbor Project, will discuss her role in making positive changes in Baltimore City and how she hopes to impact the city in the future.
Open to ALL WOMEN and ALL AGES. Light dinner will be served.
$18/ Sisterhood Member $24/Non-Member (make checks payable to CAC Sisterhood)
Chizuk Amuno Families--Applications for 2019-2020 B'nei Mitzvah Dates Are Now Being Accepted
Look HERE for more details.
KSDS 6th Grader Starts YouTube Channel
David Polsky has created a YouTube channel called King David. It includes videos of him interviewing and playing games with six Baltimore Ravens players (Dennis Pitta, Justin Tucker, Marshal Yanda, Zach Orr, Brandon Williams and Hall of Famer Jonathan Ogden) and also a behind-the-scenes look at their Under Armour practice facility. The King David channel also features a video of David interviewing Olympic Gold Medalist Skier Tommy Moe. The channel can be found HERE.
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