My goal was to complete one hour of schoolwork or academic studies each night after school. I have been able to create a stable schedule from 4:00 to 4:45 every night when I get home to do work, either by myself or with my mom. This has allowed me to be a better student at school by completing all my work on time. Overall, this year has been my best year at OJCS. Starting middle school has been a huge change with different expectations for public speaking, and the amazing amount of projects from Mr. Wash this year has been very different from all the grades before. Although this challenges this year has been an amazing experience for me and I have learn so much from my peers and teachers. I am excited for grade 7 for what surprises are coming up!

Hi, we just finished our Bar/Bat Mitzvah unit. Here’s what I learned! When a boy reaches the age of bar mitzvah, he enters adulthood and gains responsibility in the Jewish community. For a girl, it is the same but it takes place at age 12. The tiffilin and tallit are physical reminders of one’s religious obligations. The dye they use in talit is very cool because it’s made of snail blood. One question I have is where they get the snails. That is what I learned and what I wonder thanks for reading!

This innovation my partner Nate and I made a round pinball game with a buzzer. This was difficult but something that helped me was taking breaks every 25 minutes. This helps space out the work and makes things seem less big. One thing for next time is to plan out everything before building. We started to build before planning which made it harder to work. We had to restart of game because of that. Me and him work a lot and I was way more happy with it than before. I think I did a good job but I think I could improve my presenting skills. I was not that confident during the presentation, so I think I should practice more next time. In all, I think Nate and I did a good job even though there were some things we could improve on I am happy with how it went.

לֹ֖א תִּגְנֹ֑בוּ וְלֹֽא־תְכַֽחֲשׁ֥וּ וְלֹֽא־תְשַׁקְּר֖וּ אִ֥ישׁ בַּֽעֲמִיתֽוֹ

(Lev. 19:11) tells us about truth kindness respect for other and not steal from people. It says that we shall not steal personal property from others. Being a Jewish person means that everyone is equal and gets equal rights but stealing is taking away from that. You should treat others how you want to be treated. This teaching show not to steal and promote peace. 

וְשֶׂ֣רֶט לָנֶ֗פֶשׁ לֹ֤א תִתְּנוּ֙ בִּבְשַׂרְכֶ֔ם וּכְתֹ֣בֶת קַֽעֲקַ֔ע לֹ֥א תִתְּנ֖וּ בָּכֶ֑ם אֲנִ֖י יְהֹוָֽה

348. Not to tattoo the body like the idolaters (Lev. 19:28)

These mitzvot tell us not to tattoo our bodies like the people who lost faith in god did. This means a lot because it differentiates us from everyone else like our own special club. It is keeping our oath to god and not breaking the rules. This is important because it is just making the world a better place by keeping our skin clean and holy.

1. hat those engaged in warfare shall not fear their enemies nor be panic-stricken by them during battle (Deut. 3:22, 7:21, 20:3) (

לֹ֖א תִּֽירָא֑וּם כִּ֚י יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם ה֖וּא הַנִּלְחָ֥ם לָכֶֽם׃ {ס }     

This mitzvot tells us not to fear our enemies and be courageous during battle. this makes Israelites courageous and fight with honor it also can help strike fear in our enemies by not fearing them. 

My goal was to do one hour of academic study every day. I have made very good progress, doing it almost every day. By the end of February, I will be able to complete my goal. One thing I could improve on is not getting distracted. If I practice more I can do one hour of uninterrupted work a day.

my hebrew goal is to learn vocabulary and speak well in hebrew. I am doing well in this and by the end of the year I think I will be able to speak ok in hebrew.

Me

Jeremy

Other hockey players

My dad

Chloe!

                                                            A hockey day!

It was a peaceful day in Ottawa. Josh was heading to the ODR with the most beautiful dog in the whole wide world, Chloe. We walked and walked, and finally, we got to the rink. I saw my friend, Jeremy, and we started to skate around. We were shooting and passing Then we saw people playing hockey, and we went! I had just gotten a pass so I skated up the ice but i saw 2 people coming to me so i passed it. I sent it to Jeremy and he passed it back and before I knew I had scored a slapshot!

Climax: scoring a goal!!!!!!

SONG: The slapshot

Shooting a shot in hockey!

SONG: J+J team!

Me and Jeremy being a team!

SONG: Skater dawg

My dog is a pro skater!!

WINNER!!!!! – THE SLAPSHOT!!!

I chose this song because my goal was a slapshot!!

                                                                Lyrics!!

 Skating up the ice, 

 Ya deaked you twice.

 i’m cooking you up like I’m making some rice. 

 I’m almost at the net, 

 Bout to put you in debt.

 Skating so fast like I’m a private jet. 

 Then I shoot,

 They try to pursue,

 But nothing is stopping me,

 From getting that loot!!! 

 I skate back up to take a slapshot.

 I have the perfect scoring spot, 

 I shoot,

 No one is mute.

 I’m a shredder,

 It goes up and hits top cheddar! 

 I celebrate, 

 I accelerate,

 I’m about to levitate!!!

     YCC ‘24

L’ été dernier, je suis allé au YCC.  Je suis allé avec mes amies.  J’étais dans la cabine numéro 8 avec Nathan, Oren et Ari. je suis allé faire du  water ski.  Les repas et la nourriture a YCC était très bon. Mon repas préféré est le sandwich au fromage grillé. Mon activité préférée 

était  le ski d’eau. J’ai aussi aimé jouer au lac. Pour Theme Day à YCC, mon equipe etait blanc .Le theme de la couler etait Madagascar. J’était sur l’équipe Melman,   notre équipe a fini en deuxième place.  Mon  programme préféré de la soirée était Kangaroo Court. Nous avons fait tremper un conseiller dans de l’avoine. 

ENGLISH

Last summer I went to the YCC.  I went with my friends.  I was in booth 8 with Nathan, Oren and Ari. I went water skiing.  The meals and food at YCC was very good. My favorite meal is grilled cheese sandwich. My favourite activity 

was water skiing. I also liked playing on the lake. For Theme Day at YCC, my team was white. The theme of the flow was Madagascar. I was on Team Melman,   our team finished in second place.  My favourite show of the evening was Kangaroo Court. We soaked a counsellor in oats. 

Mishpacha Project Blog Post

This project is meant to help us learn about our family history and discover things about our family that I never knew! For this project, I interviewed my mom and dad. This project was very interesting because I learned many things. For example, I learned that my great-grandmother lived in Hungary Russia, and Ukraine. another interesting thing is that my great-grandfather lived in Poland and was in a concentration camp but escaped! His father escaped to Paris and lived there till he passed away. Next time I would try to go even farther back in my family heritage and see what my great-great-great grandfather was up to!

Mishpacha Project by Joshua.Slatkoff

This year i think i have learned a lot About Hebrew and improved my vocabulary. I  have learned About so many different subjects like fall store and more. This year we did a lot of blogging and stuff but personlliy i dont like blogging AT ALL (IDK why im doing it rn) but it sometimes is good but over all its meh. for next year students i would say to lisen in class and do work so ya dont homwork 🙂