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Reading Party Spelling White Boards

Sight Word Light Up Stick Spelling Sparkle Game
Spelling Jelly Machine Fishing For Sight Words

Reading Bookmarks Growing Car
Sight Word Races Mendy Manners

Spelling Song Solos Mendy Manners Loose-Leaf
Ice Cream Row Contest
Bell Work
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FIRST GRADE
student will miss... best memory...

Baruch Brull Spelling test His teacher
Simcha Edeltuch Recess Zoom class
Ice cream contest
Elisha Freed Spelling game Morah and rebbi
Chaim Pinchos Gershbaum Everything Our readers
Reading Doing fun activities
Yitzchok Goldshmidt Reading All reading books
Akiva Gonter Reading books Reading party
David Halevy Zoom pizza contest
Shua Maekitan Friends Ice cream contest
Raffi Miller Fishing for sight words
Morah made sure everyone got along!!
Shmuel Musayev Bell work
Shuly Rosenberg Mendy manners Mishloach manos
Mendy manners Learning
Boruch Scharf Mendy manners
Rafael Weiss

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M.K.- What are you doing next year when he came back he brought
living in this office? tzimmes along and gave him to Rabbi
Lieberman to keep me company.
s.t. - The Parrot Rebbi came to yeshiva
M.K.- What kind of funny
for Shabbos Shira. He showed the boys all names do you have?
sorts of cool birds and even let some fly s.t. - I have overheard Rabbi Lieberman
around the dining room. He brought me
along to raffle off. Rabbi Lieberman won explain that we are named after a pair of
the Raffle! So I moved similar birds he had in his dirah in Eretz
into his office. The Yisroel. Don’t ask.

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M.K.- Do you like it Here? WMaelmkinogryDLoawnne

s.t. - Yes!! It's great hearing the hustle and grade 4

bustle of the kids in yeshiva. We are right near Walking down memory lane
the preschool so we get to hear the singing and which seems so far back,
laughing of the kinderlach. We love to sing and there are quite a few points I recall
screech along. Of course we love when the copy
machine makes it's funny noise and we get to and take along as we pack.
chirp along. We played conductor most days
which was practice and so much fun.
M.K.- What happened in middle Our “Great Debate” on North vs. South
of the year? oh, how you fought till you won.
The news each week
s.t. - It was very scary. Things were really going
made our classroom alive
great. We saw Rabbi Lieberman finish all the with classroom discussion abuzz.
dinner preparations and then he was giving out Into little politicians we all turned,
those HUGE challos to everyone so we knew that As our opinions were discussed.
it was Purim time. There was music and singing in Last but not least,
the hallways. We heard the sounds of the Farmival we’ll forever remember,
from downstairs. Then it suddenly got very quiet. The the recess Brochos so loud and clear,
kinderlach stopped coming and only Rabbi Lieberman 21 mitzvohs each day we amassed
and Rabbi Goldberg were in the office. I knew it wasn’t all throughout the year!
the summer yet and we started getting nervous. Rabbi
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on the telephone until almost 12 midnight!! We heard him
talking about remote learning or something like that. Then
he stopped coming too and we were all alone for almost
two weeks!

M.K.- Oh No! what did you eat?
What happened then?

s.t. - We had plenty of food and water but it was very lonely.

After a while Rabbi Lieberman came back. We saw him pack
many things from his office into a box. Then he took our
whole cage and put it in a box too. We drove in his car until
we came to his House in Lakewood! I remembered it from
last year Pesach but Tzimmes was never there!

M.K.- Where are you living now?

s.t. - We are still living in Rabbi Liebermans house. His

kids love having us around and come visit us all the time.
At first, we got to see him daven and learn with his family.
It seems that his kinderlach also did not go to school and
the shuls were closed. We loved singing along when
they davened hallel on Yom Tov. Now they just come
play in the basement with us. I think they are back in
shul and school. We hope that soon we can go back
to Torah Temimah and hear all the excitement of the
kinderlach each day.

HLI2GI0GH2TH0S

• MRS. KRYKSMAN •

At the beginning of the year our We all worked hard on our multiplication tables
class wrote beautiful letters to and did many multiplication problems. Good job
President Trump. I was proud by all.
of how nicely these letters
were written. Last year we got Great Zoom Classes.
letters from President Trump
in response. We haven’t
gotten a response yet (not
surprising considering all that is going on) but we
hope to get a reply.
Another exciting thing we did was
growing a bean plant. Seeing the bean
sprout, grow roots, then stems and
leaves was very exciting to the boys.
We discussed the stages of growth,
collected data and charted
out our progress. Many boys
planted their plants in soil and
are enjoying their “creations.”

The boys also enjoyed
learning the “Song of the
States” using maps to sing
the song. This gave them a
sense of where on the map
to find various states.

Everybody enjoyed our
class’ “Library Day” where
boys had a chance to use our
class library to “sign out” to take
books home, as well as to quietly
read books of their choice during
our designated weekly library period.

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Wanhdaftonbodyms hemadotroiessaoyfaYbeosuhtivwa hToartathhTeeymmiimssah:

Aharon Fogel: I miss “projects from my teacher, Simcha Meir Moshe: I liked being in the classroom in

my teacher’s prizes, playing with friends at the play school better than Zoom. I miss playing with my friends.
deck, and going on trips.
Gavriel Musayev: I miss Cookie Day and Library
Chaim Shalom Halevy: I miss playing with my
Day in my teacher’s class. I miss gym, play deck and
friends, seeing all the cute little kids on the bus, Cookie
Day in Mrs. Kryksman’s class, going to Fun Station. Fun Station.

Emanuel Katanov: I miss learning torah, good Yitzchok Navon: I miss the canteen, the play deck

siyumim, going to Fun Station, playing basketball, and the gym.
and soccer, playing with my friends, lunches, Cookie
Day in Mrs. Kryksman’s class. Tzvi Nussbaum: I miss class before Mrs. Kryksman

Raphael Katanov: I miss playing basketball and soccer, was absent. I miss getting 100’s and 105’s on my

playing with my friend Gavriel, going to Fun Station. tests. I miss the play deck and Science Lab.

Moshe Katz: I miss gym, play deck and Fun Station. Yisroel Meir Rolnick: I miss playing football,
Abie Krieser: I miss playing with friends, playing in
basketball, and playing with my friends. I miss
the gym, and going to Fun Station.
drawing.
Menachem Lehrer: I miss hot lunches, singing in
Aharon Rudowsky: I miss the play deck.
the choir and Oneg Shabbos. I miss Science Labs, Yehuda Schapiro: I miss my friends, play deck,
and playing in the gym and on the play deck.
gym and Science Lab.
Nachi Lieberman: I miss playing with all my friends,
Ari Weiss: I miss the play deck, gym and Fun Station.
the play deck, going to Fun Station, our Chanuka Yoni Yoffe: I miss the play deck and Fun Station.
Party, getting prizes from my teacher, Science Lab, Netanel Yusupov: I liked when we finished the
and I liked growing my bean plant.
Parsha and went to Fun Station.
Don Yitzchok Mikhli: I liked our Chanukah Party,

getting all the nosh, and I miss playing on the play deck.

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My students’ best part
of 4th grade

• MRS. LERNER •

Yehudah Rambod I appreciate all the effort that my principles and teacher put in, all for a good education. I
personally enjoyed sports because everyone was included. It felt like one giant mishpacha. Also
Akiva Taub saying Amen to everyone’s brochos felt special, we were building a throne in the world above.
Aryeh Leib Krinsky
From all the things, I best enjoyed making brochos out loud and saying amen. 21 mitzvohs, each
Aharon Khavis day wow! We also learned to behave so nicely to each other during recess.
Eli Fleischman
Science with Mr. Ghoori, it was fun and cool. I liked history a lot it was very interesting.
Dovi Stern
Yehuda Pollack Math, to be a lawyer I will need to know math to figure out my savings and spendings. We
learned about the importance of respecting others, in return others will respect you.
Shabsi Weiss
Dovid Edeltuch Dear reader, persistence in reading and reading comprehension was great. I learned to enjoy
Moshe Deckelbaum what I read, I used the info in sentences, and I learned grammar too.

Rafael Josowitz I enjoyed recess and history. Recess because it’s good to move around after you sit for a while,
Yaakov Jofen and history because I learned a lot of new things that I didn’t know.

Avraham Edelstien I enjoyed the news and playing the conductor math game. The news made me understand and
Zev Brun read about what’s going on, and the math game was good practice and fun.
Fali Donut
The 2 things I enjoyed most are the news- knowing what’s going on in the world. Also the
Zusha Rabinowitsch Great Debate- it was fun.
Daniel Majer
I looked out for our recess break and enjoyed math because it makes me smart.
Avrom Shia Rubin
Levi Goodstien I’m impressed the most with the math we covered during Corona, we really learned so much
and it was not such simple stuff. We also covered history from beginning to end, it was really so
Tzvi Aryeh Miller good for us.

It was a year of accomplishment. I found the newspaper so interesting. I loved the spelling bees
it sharpened our minds.

I liked recess and reading- we learned a lot about the world.

Of all things I enjoyed most was science- learning about Hashem’s creation. I also enjoyed
American history; it taught me so much about our country.

We learned to respect others and they’ll respect you. Saying brochos and amen out loud, we
got so many extra mitzvahs.

I enjoyed reading, it makes me smart, and I liked the news- it tells me what’s going on in the
world.

Brochos which got us lots of mitzvahs. The news helped us to understand what’s going on; it
helped with reading and writing too.

I will always remember to make brochos out loud, and I learned how easy it is to make people
happy. As a result, you make yourself a happy person.

Brochos, a most important mitzvah we did before recess. I enjoyed current events where you
get to know about the world, I found that so interesting.

The 2 lasting things of this year for me are making brochos and saying amen out loud. Also,
being nice to all the boys during recess.

From all the things I can think of, it’s recess and the news that I really enjoyed. Recess is all
about making good friends and the news teaches us so much about the world.

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Five questions for

Rabbi Fievy Lieberman

Executive Director

5x5 by: our8thgrade
Is there really coffee in those huge with Rav Moshe Pruzansky which later became known as

cups you hold? the Dirshu Chaburah.

RFL: Yes! I live in Lakewood and typically spend two When did you begin working in
yeshiva administration? How did
hours on the road each morning driving to yeshiva. that happen?
I daven at 6:00 am and then listen to a Daf Yomi in the
RFL: I spent six years in the daf chaburah I mentioned.
car. Coffee is a very integral part of maintaining that
routine! I usually start with a 24oz coffee I get at After some time I began helping the rosh chaburah
the gas station and then I have one or two more organize some of the chaburah projects. In 2004 he
16oz coffees from the machine in my office. The introduced me to Rabbi Yissochor Rothschild zt”l who was
trip home is shorter and I drink seltzer or water. looking for someone to assist him in running the mesivta
he had founded. At that time it was called Yeshivas Me’or
Is it really worth driving Hatorah. Shortly after I joined, he was tragically niftar and
all that way to work in for the next 8 years I was the administrator of the yeshiva
Torah Temimah? which we renamed Yeshivas Ohr Yissochor, in his memory.
In 2012 I became the Executive Director of Tashbar, a boys
RFL: Absolutely. I myself went to elementary school. From 2012 – 2018 the yeshiva grew
from 350 students to 675 students and we were able to
Torah Temimah as a student and it build a magnificent campus that had been planned for
is so special to now be part of the many years. I still feel pride when I drive by and see the
administration. It is very rewarding beautiful building that I helped build. Then, in 2018, I was
to see firsthand the results of all approached by the newly installed board of Yeshiva Torah
of the hard work of the Board Temimah and asked to join my Alma Matter and help it
and administration as our yeshiva grow. BH in the 2 and a half years since then the yeshiva
has truly thrived and we keep on shteiging.
continues to grow. Besides, there is
always something exciting to look
forward to when I arrive.

You were a Talmid here What is the hardest part of your job?
for Mesivta and Bais
Medrash. Which yeshiva RFL: Well, its certainly difficult to make sure that there
were you in before
that? Where did you is enough money to pay for everything in the yeshiva.
go after TT? Ultimately, that is one of the more important parts of my
job but that is not what I would call the hardest. Baruch
RFL: I went toYeshiva Karlin Stolin Hashem, we have a very dedicated group of friends and
supporters and I am never left facing a financial challenge
in Boro Park for elementary school. alone. I would say that the hardest part of my job is not
After Torah Temimah I joined Yeshiva being able to do something that someone may want.
Mir Yerushalayim. I spent three years As the director, sometimes I need to make a decision
learning by Reb Elya Baruch Finkel that not everyone likes and it bothers me. I chose this
zt"l, and enjoyed a close relationship profession in order to help Rabbeim and talmidim be
with the Rosh Yeshiva Horav Nosson able to learn in the most secure and comfortable setting.
Tzvi Finkel zt"l. After that I went to BMG When I need to make a choice that some people don’t
in Lakewood where I got married and still like it is hard, but I have the support and guidance of
live. I joined the original Blatt chaburah many wonderful people who make those choices easier.

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EXPLORING THE SUCCESS OF OUR S.A.G.E. INITIATIVE

t is only natural for parents to be

‫באג‬ 40 preoccupied with the educational

200 HOURS OF READING Isuccess of their children. This is
ASSESSMENTS & particularly so when your child is a talmid
BOYS ASSESSED in a Yeshiva known for its lofty standards.
BY RABBI READING SUPPORT Every parent wants their son to excel in
FOR STUDENTS his limudei kodesh, limudei chol, social
GREENFIELD and behavioral development, and so
FOR KRIAH do we. Chinuch is a tremendous responsibility.
At Torah Temimah, we adhere to standards of
78 1000+ excellence, while assessing and guiding each
talmid to reach that goal. This does not come
O.T. SKILLS OCCUPATIONAL easily, and there is no cookie-cutter method
MASTERED THERAPY  that works for every individual. People are
SESSIONS different and must be guided as individuals.
200+
60
SKILLS BOYS IN
IN SETTS SPEECH Torah Temimah wants each talmid to fulfill his
MASTERED THERAPY potential. Our S.A.G.E. (Student Advocacy for

65 Growth and Enrichment) program is designed

STUDENTS STARTED to help each talmid do just that. S.A.G.E.
THIS YEAR IN IEP
is a systematic assessment and
CLASSES 4 STUDENT
MAINSTREAMED intervention program, overseen

145 S.A.G.E. 196 by Chinuch and educational
STUDENT ADVOCACY FOR professionals, to ensure that
HOURS OF GROWTH & ENRICHMENT SKILLS IN SPEECH all appropriate resources are
COUNSELING LANGUAGE & available to promote and support
AWARENESS
MASTERED each boy’s growth in Yeshiva.

Torah Temimah’s S.A.G.E. program is

under the expert guidance of Rabbi Yosef

Chaim Fogel, and uses a methodical system

to foster success from the ground up. The

process includes: (1) Identify: The Program

$35,000+ Director works proactively to interface
with rabbeim, teachers, menahelim,
RAISED TO ASSIST principals, and of course parents, to
gather information and identify potential
IN TUTORING

27 areas of intervention, working together with

HOURS OF COACHING therapists and other education professionals as
& CURRICULUM
needed. (2) Collaborate: Create a “student-centered”
DEVELOPMENT WITH
MRS. ROTHSTEIN 24 group of stakeholders to monitor the talmid,
MSED track developments and craft action plans. (3)
MEMBERS OF Intervention: The committee will implement the
SAGE STAFF

action plan, while synthesizing the classroom, the

Yeshiva and home, to ensure that all stakeholders

are on the “same page” and to account for resources

being provided and implemented. (4) Follow up: The

S.A.G.E. committee will regularly follow up on development in

the classroom and at home, liaising with stakeholders, the student himself and State

and City Agencies to ensure that the action plan is yielding measurable outcomes and

subsequently adjust the action-plan as needed.

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