Letter 3 from The Jewish Day Primary School

Here is the latest letter from The Jewish Day Primary School. 

I want our reply letter to be finished in 10 days inshaAllah, so please read and tell me what you want to say!

 April 2, 2014

Dear fourth graders in Dakar,

We are happy to answer some of your questions. The colour of our school is red and brown and made of bricks. We pray at our school every day( every morning, and for fifth and sixth graders mornings and  afternoon.) We pray for a half hour on every day except for Thursdays. On Thursdays, we pray for forty-five minutes.  On Friday we don’t pray in the morning, but we all gather together for the early beginning of the Sabbath. Sometimes we pray standing up, and sometimes sitting down. Our school is not very big. It only has two floors. We have two campuses, one for little kids, and one for older kids. We have fun and interesting field trips. We are currently learning about religions, so our trips right now are usually to different places of worship. So far we have been to a mosque and a church. We enjoy this because it is interesting to learn about different religions besides ours.

A lot of us have pets.  They are:

Gabriel: Two cats

Rachel: Two guinea pigs

Naomi: One dog

Shira: One dog

Evan: One bird

Rochelle: Two guinea pigs

Jacob: One dog

Only seven out of seven-teen of us have pets. Most of us love using toys. We like to use Legos, Playmobile, blocks, and some of the girls have these popular dolls called American Girl Dolls. Most of the kids have iPods or iTouches.

Some of our names have meanings:

Dalia: flower

Tamar: date (the food)

Ezra: help

Shira: song

Naomi: pleasant

Hanina ( our teacher): forgiveness, mercy, and grace

Rochelle and Rachel: motherly

Anya: favor\grace

Yona: dove and peaceful

Evan: stone

Joseph ( Joey):  adding

Nava: beautiful

Josie: god will give

Jacob: heel ( of a foot)

Matan: gift

We have questions for you.

What do your names mean? Do any of you have siblings? Do any of you have pets?

Sincerely,

4th grade Trailblazers