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“The idea of a real snow day has us all imagining roaring fireplaces and hot cocoa with marshmallows,” wrote Mrs. Kaminetsky and Mrs. Drebin in an email to SKAers explaining there would be no school, nor a regular day of online teaching, on Thursday, December 17.

HAFTR Middle School’s sixth and eighth grade girls begin their Chumash class every day by putting money in our specially made “Thank You, Hashem” tz’dakah box. As each girl puts in her tz’dakah, she states what she is “thanking Hashem for today.”

Photo Credit Maxine Lipshitz

On Motza’ei Shabbos, December 5, the Yeshiva of Central Queens had its third-grade virtual Intergenerational Melaveh Malkah. During the past few weeks leading up to the Melaveh Malkah, the third-grade students practiced and rehearsed their songs with their moros and music teacher, Morah Tali Spector, in order to perfect them for the presentation. Each of the four third-grade classes was pre-recorded singing one song, and all four songs were shown at the Melaveh Malkah on Zoom to YCQ administrators, faculty, and the families and friends of the third graders. One student in each class presented a d’var Torah about the song their class sang. Benjamin Niyazov introduced the song Shabbos is Going Away, the song Eliyahu HaNavi was introduced by Eliyahu Babaev, the third song (LaNer B’samim) was presented by Allie Daniel, and the fourth and final song (David Melech) was presented by Eliana Aulov. “My favorite part was singing the songs. I liked showing the songs to my family,” said Eliana Pleshtiyev, a third-grader. Suri Lalo said, “I liked when we saw the video at the Melaveh Malkah and when my mom saw the video.”