Religious School
Oseh Shalom offers Sunday School for preschool through Grade 7 from 9:30 am
to 11:30 am. Optional youth activities wrap around these hours.
For students in grades 3-6 midweek school is offered on Wednesdays afternoons.
Pre Bnei Mitzvah students, typically Grade 7, attend on Thursday evenings.
We also offer a comprehensive, easy to use, home school option for both midweek
and Sundays programs, although attending school is a better way to connect with
other Jewish children and enjoy the richness of our community.
Registration materials for 2007-08 in
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To reach
our Religious School Director Maryana Harouni, email
or call Maryana at 301-498-7004.
Mission
Statement
The mission of the Oseh
Shalom Religious School is to teach and promote living Judaism – from a
perspective of Reconstructionist thought and practice – as the way to create
personal, communal and ecological tikkun--healing. The School Renewal Task
Force established two organizational goals that complement the Mission. All
Religious School programs are designed to accomplish two goals:
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To foster Jewish
literacy, including the following components –
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Values & concepts
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Texts – Tanach
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History – Experience
of the Jewish People
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Hebrew (i.e.,
language)
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To engender an
appreciation for Jewish living, including the following aspects:
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Spirituality
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Rituals & their
meaning
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Ethics (Tikkun)
It is the actions
of home, synagogue, and community interacting with school that will be the
ultimate determinant of commitment.
Oseh Shalom Religious School
Oseh Shalom offers programs for preschoolers through college. We offer Sunday
School for preschool through Grade 7 from 9:30 am to 11:30 am. Several times a
year, optional youth activities follow Sunday school. For students in grades
3-6 midweek school is offered on Wednesdays afternoons from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm.
Seventh grade students attend on Thursday afternoons from 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm.
Our post-b’nei mitzvah students (grades 8-12) meet on Tuesday evenings from 7:15
pm – 9:00 pm. We also offer a comprehensive, easy to use, home school option for
both midweek and Sundays programs, although attending school is a better way to
connect with other Jewish children and enjoy the richness of our community.
Our Midweek Program for students in grades 3-6 is an interactive program
which incorporates the study of Jewish values through different chuggim
(clubs): art, drama, creative writing, music and movement, and cooking. Our
Seventh Grade Thursday program provides students with an opportunity to learn
the Shabbat morning service in depth – and to explore the meanings of prayers
through art and creative writing.
 Preschool
Sunday Program
Our preschool Sunday program is
held once a month during the school year for 3-5 year olds. Children creatively
explore Jewish holidays, traditions, and values through song, arts and crafts,
and stories. This class is taught by a nursery school teacher. We have both a
“Year A” and a “Year B” program, so that students enrolled in both programs
experience little duplication. Please see the school calendar for the exact
dates.
Home
Schooling Program
The Oseh Shalom Home Schooling
program is available for 3rd through 6th graders who are
unable to participate in our on-site Midweek Program. The Home School
Program (Midweek) follows the same topics and rotations as the Midweek
Program. Parents are required to work with students to complete the year’s
curriculum at home. Assignments are turned in on a weekly basis. Students will
receive material packets for each subject that includes a syllabus, assignments
and all reading materials. Our topics for study this year include
Peace at Home (Shalom bayit); Taking
Care of One’s Body (Shmirat ha-guf); The Jewish People Live! (Am
yisrael chai); Pursuing Peace (Rodef shalom); and Israel – Living on
a Kibbutz.
The clubs (chuggim)
segment of the curriculum has been broken down into topics on a six-week
rotation. Each topic packet will include a text study with questions and a
drama, cooking, art and writing assignment. Students will complete journal
worksheets to turn in each week.
Our
HomeSchool Program (7th Grade) parallels our on-site program
called “SiddurQuest.” Students work with the specific blessings of the Amidah,
discovering layers of meaning within the prayers, writing about the insights
they gain through their discovery, and expressing those insights artistically.
At the end of the year, their writings are incorporated into a booklet entitled
“Meditations on the Amidah.”
Finally,
our HomeSchool Program (Sunday option) provides grade-level materials for
students who are unable to join in our regularly scheduled Sunday
program.
An orientation meeting for all
Home Schooling families will be held in mid September
to introduce the program and distribute materials. Throughout the year our Home
School Coordinator and families stay in contact through e-mails and phone calls.
Progress reports will be sent out along with regular religious school mailings.
We are looking forward to a successful year. If you would like more information
about the Oseh Shalom Religious School Home Schooling program please contact the
school office.
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