Support Our Vision |
Application Form |
Contact Us
819 Sheppard Avenue West
Toronto, ON, M3H 2T3
Tel.: 416-635-1876 E-mail: info@torontoheschel.org
Blog
Follow Us!
Student Voice
My favorite part of going to school at Heschel is free play and outdoor exploration."
Grade Three Gardening
The Grade three class is responsible for three rectangular garden beds at the eastern side of the Heschel garden.
As a part of our SES unit on plants and soils, our students have been busy planting.
We took a survey of the students’ favourite vegetables to put in a salad.
We also integrated this project with our math unit and discussed how many seeds we could plant in each bed. We decided on 6 columns by 7 rows.
6 x 7 = 42
Animal Observations
The grade three students have been observing animals found in our communities.
We took a look in the Heschel field and here are some of the animals we saw:
Canada Geese
Ladybugs
Robins
Ants
Sparrow
Spider
Grade 6 Camp George Trip: Recap of a 3-Day Adventure!
From May 14-16, the Grade 6 students spent an incredible three days at Camp George. When we arrived on Monday, we were greeted by incredible weather, beautiful facilities, and an ecological playground in which to expand our knowledge of ecosystems, biodiversity, and our Jewish identity. Over the next two days, we went on ‘brachot’ scavenger hunts, ecological hikes, serene nature explorations, all while learning about the diverse landscapes of the Parry Sound region. The students conducted tefillah in nature, learned how to build a fire, sculpted nature scenes from clay, roasted marshmallows over a campfire, and participated in team-building activities at the ropes course. They also demonstrated their unique talents at an evening variety show. A fantastic time was had by all!
1955 pounds of recycling!
This Mitzvah Day, The Toronto Heschel School managed to collect nearly 2000 pounds of recyclable material! The mass of that amount of material is roughly the same as the mass of a Volkswagen Beetle! Thanks to everyone for bringing in your electronic recycling and thanks to our partner ThinkRecycle.
-”One generation goes and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever”
Kohelet 1:4
That's a lot of recycling!
Shavuot at Heschel
Shavuot is the holiday that Jews universally accept as the day when God gave the Jewish people the Torah following Moses’ descent from Mount Sinai. However, nowhere in the Torah is the holiday of Shavuot actually linked to Matan Torah, the giving of the Torah.
Instead, the Torah refers to Shavuot as an agricultural festival. It marked the transition between the barley harvest, which was brought to the priest in the Temple in Jerusalem on the sixteenth of Nisan and the start of the wheat-ripening season, which began the first week of Sivan.
The Torah refers to Shavuot as Hag ha-katzir, (Exodus 23:14-19) the feast of the harvest, as Hag Hashavuot, the festival of weeks, and as Yom ha-bikurim, (Leviticus 23:9-22) the day of first fruits, when farmers brought their produce to the Temple as an offering.
At Heschel this year, the school community gathered and made the journey to Yerushalyim to greet the Kohen HaGadol (The high Priest) with their fruit offerings. The celebration concluded with an inter-generational sharing among classes. Enjoy the following photographs and Chag Sameach!
Facebook
© Copyright 2011 The Toronto Heschel School. All Rights Reserved.