Our Method
of Learning the Pesukim

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This diagram was constructed in class, together with the children!

How does it all work?

The children are in five groups.  Each group
is given a different focus for their daily Chumash review.

Here are the different tasks:

a)  Where are we?  ie what's just been happening in the story?
b)  Translating from the linear Chumash (Feldheim), phrase by phrase.
c)  Individual words.  This group focuses on meanings of individual
words, breaking down the phrase, even breaking the words into their
component parts.
d)  Own words.  Being able to explain the current pasuk/pesukim in
the pupil's own words - eg who is speaking?  What was said?  How many
separate points were made?
e)  Middot / lessons.  What can we learn form the pasuk, to take and
apply in our own lives?

Since any one child only has one of these tasks the homework does not
need to take long at all, but the cumulative effect is (I hope!) that
i)  In class we get a great variety of 'angles' on what we're learning,
ii)  Over a period of a couple of weeks all children get an
opportunity to work on all the tasks,
iii)  The movement between tasks keeps us all interested and busy!

...and by working on all of these tasks we apply ourselves to the different aspects of:

KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS
UNDERSTANDING
HASHKAFAH

...with Hashem's help!

Teachers:  See Teachers' Notes on the Tasks and Groups Method