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Dear Parents, Breaking News: Three Politz students travel to South Pole to find other Politz Bear friends! This is scientifically inaccurate – can you guess why? Honestly – they went to the South Pole! (It’s summer there – only -20 F!) We are eagerly awaiting their return so that they can share their scientific findings on the list of thirty questions we gave them to re- search. Yes – they had homework over their extended vacation! We are also studying the halachic parameters of how to keep Shabbat and daven in 24 hours of sunlight – a phenomenon that occurs in the South Pole amongst other geographic loca- tions. To help us find these answers, Rabbi Sinensky, of Kohelet Yeshiva High School, will be giving a class on this fascinating subject to our middle school students. This class is open to the public. (See the at- tached flyer for details.) As the school year transitions into its sec- ond half, we will be “checking in” with our parents to see how life at Politz is for your children. There will be a brief survey that will be sent to you via email in the next few weeks. Please take the time to answer this survey, so we can address any concerns you may have. The week of January 12th, we will be con- ducting a school wide homework data col- lection to compare and analyze the actual length of our daily homework regiment in both General and Judaic Studies. Some students will be asked to monitor their ac- tual time allotments they spend on home- work. These findings will be compared to The Politz Press Parsha : Shemot Candle Lighting Time: 4:34 PM January 9, 2015 How you can help our school, at no extra cost to you! ●Please send Box Tops for Ed ucation to the school office. ●Every family in the school has a $3000 scrip obligation. Stop by the school office to purchase before your next trip to Shop Rite! ●If you have a Target charge card, please make sure to credit it to Politz. ●Have Politz send your next Mazal Tov or condolence card for you for a $10 donation to the scholarship fund! Dates to Remember January 14 Guest Speaker - Rabbi Tzvi Sinensky, Rosh Beit Midrash of Kohelet Yeshiva HS January 19 Preschool Conferences No Preschool Classes K-8 Regular Schedule January 23 Progress Reports Sent Home January 31 Panoply & Gala Auction February 4 Tu B’Shevat Program February 13 No School - Teacher In-service February 16 No School - Presidents' Day the projected time it was supposed to take from the teacher’s estimations. We will also track the total number of minutes spent on homework from across the curric- ulum and amongst all the teachers of the particular grade. Politz won an award at a PEJE conference in 2010 for the use of data in the school setting. We will be reporting our findings to you, once the data is in. Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Avraham Glustein, Head of School Mrs. Marilyn Roth, General Studies Director Condolences to Mrs. Ilana Wieder on the untimely death of her brother. Parent Volunteer of the Week Rachel Garland for sewing book covers for the first grade Siddur party. To Mrs. Ellen Braffman on the birth of her grandson. Welcome to Mrs. Dina Klein, our new Gym & TAG Program teacher. Sorry to say good-bye to Coach Pat as we wish him well on his new career path. To View the Politz Press Online, visit www.politz.org
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Dear Parents,
Breaking News: ThreePolitz students travel toSouth Pole to find otherPolitz Bear friends!
This is scientifically inaccurate – can youguess why?
Honestly – they went to the South Pole!(It’s summer there – only -20 F!) We areeagerly awaiting their return so that theycan share their scientific findings on the listof thirty questions we gave them to re-search. Yes – they had homework overtheir extended vacation! We are alsostudying the halachic parameters of how tokeep Shabbat and daven in 24 hours ofsunlight – a phenomenon that occurs in theSouth Pole amongst other geographic loca-tions. To help us find these answers, RabbiSinensky, of Kohelet Yeshiva High School,will be giving a class on this fascinatingsubject to our middle school students. Thisclass is open to the public. (See the at-tached flyer for details.)
As the school year transitions into its sec-ond half, we will be “checking in” with ourparents to see how life at Politz is for yourchildren. There will be a brief survey thatwill be sent to you via email in the next fewweeks. Please take the time to answer thissurvey, so we can address any concernsyou may have.
The week of January 12th, we will be con-ducting a school wide homework data col-lection to compare and analyze the actuallength of our daily homework regiment inboth General and Judaic Studies. Somestudents will be asked to monitor their ac-tual time allotments they spend on home-work. These findings will be compared to
The Politz PressParsha : ShemotCandle Lighting Time: 4:34 PM January 9, 2015
How you can helpour school, at no extra cost
to you!●Please send Box Tops for Education to the school office.●Every family in the school hasa $3000 scrip obligation. Stop bythe school office to purchasebefore your next trip to ShopRite!●If you have a Target chargecard, please make sure to creditit to Politz.●Have Politz send your nextMazal Tov or condolence cardfor you for a $10 donation to
the scholarship fund!
Dates toRemember
January 14Guest Speaker - Rabbi TzviSinensky, Rosh BeitMidrash of Kohelet YeshivaHS
January 19Preschool ConferencesNo Preschool ClassesK-8 Regular Schedule
January 23Progress Reports SentHome
January 31Panoply & Gala Auction
February 4Tu B’Shevat Program
February 13No School -Teacher In-service
February 16No School -
Presidents' Day
the projected time it was supposed to takefrom the teacher’s estimations. We willalso track the total number of minutesspent on homework from across the curric-ulum and amongst all the teachers of theparticular grade. Politz won an award at aPEJE conference in 2010 for the use of datain the school setting. We will be reportingour findings to you, once the data is in.
Shabbat Shalom,Rabbi Avraham Glustein, Head of School
Mrs. Marilyn Roth, General Studies Director
Condolences to Mrs. Ilana Wiederon the untimely death of her brother.
Parent Volunteer ofthe Week
Rachel Garland for sewingbook covers for the first
grade Siddur party.
To Mrs. Ellen Braffman onthe birth of her grandson.
Welcome to Mrs. DinaKlein, our new Gym &TAG Program teacher.
Sorry to say good-byeto Coach Pat as wewish him well on hisnew career path.
To View the Politz Press Online, visit www.politz.org
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Our past week in photos
Middle School Language Arts
In all middle school language arts classes, students havebeen using their Ipads to compose their first draft of a fiveparagraph essay based on the classic novel taught inclass. After feedback from Ms. Ray, students revised andsent additional revisions, as needed, until the final draftwas honed.
Eighth graders enjoyed reading The Ad-ventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twainand were amazed that the book waswritten 142 years ago. Students wrotetheir essays on the theme of maturationand growth of the main character, TomSawyer.
Seventh graders read The Secret Gardenby Burnett and wrote essays based onone of the themes, the necessity of hu-man companionship.
After reading the book Tuck Everlastingby Babbitt, which explores the theme ofimmortality, sixth graders completedtheir first five-paragraph essay on one ofthe main characters in the book.
Literallyspeaking,
it’s been an impressive timein middle school languagearts.
Galit Brody is 4th Grade’s Judaic Student of the Week 2 year nursery learns about baby Moshefloating in the Nile.
Fourth Grade
K ITAH DALED IS popping with excitement!We are so glad to be back in school after ourwinter break. Congratulations to those ofyou who received prizes for filling out your check lists.
WE ALL ENJOYED our Hatchalat Naviparty. Thank you to those who broughtspecial treats.WE ARE ELATED to learn, and have alreadyfinished half a Perek. Some of us filled insquares on our Navi charts. We can chantmany shealot uteshuvot from the pesukim by heart!
OUR MIDDOT AND maturity are beautiful, too.Every week we have - middot "mentchen". Anytime anyone sees someone practicingnice middot, they fill out a middot mail card. We can'twait to reach 250 for a party. We already have over70 just from a few weeks!
GRADE 5 SAFAIn Grade 5 Safa, the students learn stories to which theycan relate. These stories are about having positivefriendships and the right way to treat your friends. In thestories they learn something new about our everyday lifeand these stories include quotes from the Gemara andour sages.
The children learn grammar, new vocabulary and theyhave a large list of verbs that help them to communicatein modern Hebrew language (safa). After the childrenhave read each story, the children are then able to telltheir own story in Hebrew, using the vocabulary they justacquired. They also script plays and present them totheir classmates.
The class enjoys learning Hebrew together and soonparents will be able to see their children speaking He-brew on our website!
Aliza Kraftmann leads the 2 year class inthe Pledge of Allegiance.
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Thank you to our Politz Parentswho have already made their
All In for Politz Parent Campaign pledge!
41% of our parents arealready All In for PolitzAdd YOUR name to ourlist so that we can reachour goal of 100% parent
participation!
Join us for the 3rd annualPolitz Panoply
Saturday, Jan. 31, 20158:00 PM at the Katz JCC
1301 Springdale Rd, Cherry Hill, NJ
This multimedia, multi-sensory, interactive trivia gamehas taken South Jersey by storm. Don’t miss out on
this exciting evening of fun and games.
Enjoy our Gala Auction on the same night and enterto win great prizes.
BYOB & food make the night complete!
Want to be at Panoply but not play?We need volunteers to:
Tabulate ScoresRegister
Assist with FoodSet up / Clean up
Gala Auction Assistance
Be part of the fun!
For more information or to volunteer,call Sabrina at 856-667-3166.
Isaac & Amy HalickmanRabbi Chaim & Tzipora Juni
Rabbi Yitzchak & Baily KahanEric & Rachel Klein
Yitzchok & Karen KraftmanJudith Krupnick
Morris Levin & Rachel GarlandAvi & Biana Lifschitz
Ari & Sarah MillerHarvey & Suzie MindelKen & Alise Panitch
Michael & Barbara RosenbloomHooshang & Lea SadikyAaron & Sabrina Spector
Nachum & Dvasha StollmanShealtiel & Sabra Weinberg
Avraham & Daniela Ziskind
Jack & Alisha AbboudiVladislav & Irina Alksnis
Marne AltbaumShawn & Shira Baratz
Rabbi Jonathan & Sara BienenfeldRabbi Yaakov & Molly Bindell
Zumi & Caryn BrodyAvi & Dawn Cohen
Rabbi Yisrael & Yael DavidowitzMatt & Dawne EichenDan & Rory Eisenstein
Elon & Neely ElishaRabbi Ephraim & Debbie Epstein
Rabbi Rodney & Raisie FeinermanRabbi Yehoshua Dov & Chaya Glatt
Aaron & Elyse Greenberg
Take advantage of our Gala Auction Early Bird Special!Get in on the fun & make the most out of your dollar!
Great prizes, including a trip to Israel, $1,000 bank cashcard, vacation in Cancun, KitchenAid mixer, gift cards,shopping sprees, event tickets, laptop, movie & sportstickets, jewelry, bikes and so much more! You canparticipate from the comfort of your home or office bybuying raffle tickets online at www.politzauction.org.Click on the Grand Prize and Split the Pot site topurchase tickets for those items separately, or go to:http://grandprize.politzauction.org
You can also mail in your order form, email us [email protected], fax to 856 667-2010 or phone
in your order to 667-1013.A great way to support our school AND enjoy some amazing
prizes! A mitzvah with benefits!
In the case of inclement weather: We will try to send you anemail to let you know if there is school or not. The decision isusually made by 6:00 AM and an email will go out shortlythereafter. Additionally, our information scrolls on the bottom
of ABC and CBS. We usual-ly follow the Cherry Hillpublic school system, butnot always since we havemany staff who travel a longdistance and students whocome from afar, as well.
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This thorny, halachic realThis thorny, halachic realThis thorny, halachic real---life problem is in life problem is in life problem is in
dire need of a resolution to help three of dire need of a resolution to help three of dire need of a resolution to help three of
our middle school students chart their our middle school students chart their our middle school students chart their
midmidmid---winter travel plans to the Antarctica.winter travel plans to the Antarctica.winter travel plans to the Antarctica.
Join as our guest lecturer, Join as our guest lecturer, Join as our guest lecturer,
Rabbi Tzvi Sinensky, Rosh Beit Rabbi Tzvi Sinensky, Rosh Beit Rabbi Tzvi Sinensky, Rosh Beit
Midrash of Kohelet Yeshiva Midrash of Kohelet Yeshiva Midrash of Kohelet Yeshiva
HS, explores this issue with HS, explores this issue with HS, explores this issue with
our middle school students.our middle school students.our middle school students.
Wednesday, January 14Wednesday, January 14Wednesday, January 14ththth
9:30AM9:30AM9:30AM---10:15AM10:15AM10:15AM
Politz Beit MidrashPolitz Beit MidrashPolitz Beit Midrash
Lecture is open to the public.Lecture is open to the public.Lecture is open to the public.
Can our Politz Students Can our Politz Students Can our Politz Students
keep Shabbat in the Landkeep Shabbat in the Landkeep Shabbat in the Land
of the Midnight Sun?of the Midnight Sun?of the Midnight Sun?
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