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Monday, May 30
Memorial Day, No School
Tuesday, May 31
Student Art Fair,
3:40 - 6:00 pm
Wednesday, June 1
Yom Yerushalayim
Friday, June 3
Senior Luncheon
Sunday, June 5
8th Grade Graduation
Young Israel Synagogue
7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, June 7
Erev Shavuot
NOON DISMISSAL FOR ALL STUDENTS
Wednesday June 8 - Thursday, June 9
Shavuot
NO SCHOOL
Friday, June 10
8:30 Start for All Students
Monday, June 13
Last Day of School for Tenoki, Nursery, Pre-K, and Kindergarten!
9:15 a.m.
Kindergarten Celebration
10:00 a.m.
Early Childhood & Kindergarten
Parade to Millenium Park
10:15 - 11:30 a.m.
End of Year Celebration
(at Millenium Park)
Tuesday, June 14
Last Day of School for
1st through 7th grades
NOON DISMISSAL
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PLACE YOUR AD IN THE DAF KESHER
Feature your personal and business advertisements in this space.
Please contact Debbie Friedman at (314) 373-7534
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MAZEL TOV
Mazel Tov to Batsheva and Nachi Winter on the birth of a son.
Mazel Tov to grand-parents, Rabbi Aaron and Chanie Winter.
Mazel Tov to Rabbi Levi Yitzchok and Rivka Landa on the birth of a daughter. Mazel Tov to grand-parents, Rabbi Yosef and Shiffy Landa.
Mazel Tov to Rabbi Dovid and Chayka Fromowitz on the birth of a daughter.
What an exciting week!
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Recent School Snaps:
To see our complete photogallery, including wonderful photos of Yom Ha'Atzmaut,
Mother's Day,
Pesach,
and much more, please click on the camera icon below:
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More Lag B'Omer
Yom Ha'Atzmeut
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Parshat Bemidbar פרשת במדבר
Candlelighting: 7:58p.m.
Shabbat ends: 8:58 p.m.
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 Epstein Hebrew Academy cordially invites the community to the 2011
8th Grade Graduation Exercises
at Young Israel of St. Louis
Sunday, June 5th @ 7:30 p.m.
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ANNUAL OPEN BOARD MEETING
Join us for the annual EHA election of officers and State of the School Address on Tuesday, June 21, 7:30 p.m. at the school. Please make every effort to attend this very important meeting.
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KIPPOT NEEDED!
Do you have any extra kippot at your house? We are running low on kippot here at EHA, and would appreciate it if parents who have kippot they can spare would bring them in, to provide to children who lose theirs. Thank you!
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LAG B'OMER PICNIC
A wonderful time was had by all at the Lag B'Omer p icnic on Monday. We didn't even let a little rainstorm stop us...the children had a wonderful time playing games in the gym and the bounce house!!
Special thanks to the 7th grade students, parents, and grandparents, and the EHA staff for all their help in shopping, cooking, serving and cleaning, before, during and after the picnic.
 
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 Teacher Appreciation
Week at Epstein!
It was the pleasure of FHA to coordinate a few expressions of appreciation for our teachers this week!
On Monday, the teachers were greeted with a colorful banner and nosh - special thanks to 'Owl'ga Kennon for her artistic assistance
On Tuesday, several parents sponsored a beautiful bagels, lox, and more breakfast in the teachers' lounge - special thanks to Izzy Yazdi, Angela Tannenbaum, Ruth Koshner, Tammy Friedman, Vicky Isakow, Sima Oberlander and Tara Klein. Also on Tuesday FHA sponsored 2 massage therapists to treat our faculty to incredible 5 minute chair massages!
On Th ursday, FHA sponsored a wonderful luncheon for faculty and staff - special thanks to Vicki Redler Chervitz, Adi Feen, Sara Greene, Angela Tannenbaum, Zvi Tannenbaum, and Sara Winkelman for setup and logistics
On Friday, FHA presented teachers with a small verse reminding them of their incredible role this year instilling knowledge in our children - special thanks to Rachel Kornblum for sharing her scrapbooking skills
The EHA faculty would like to thank the FHA and all the helpers/sponsors, for a terrific week!
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SECOND GRADE CHUMASH
In the s pirit of the chesed of Avraham Avinu, Morah Chanie's 2nd graders "planted" an "eshel" (tamarisk) tree in the EHA front hall! Guests were invited to sit under the tree and partake of acheela (food) and shtiya (drink). Upon being thanked, the second graders taught their guests about Hashem, who owns the world! "Don't thank me, thank Hashem!" was the chant of the day. With Avraham and Sarah as role models, the second graders then did the mitzvah of levaya - escorting guests to their destination. yashar kochachem second graders...tizku l'mitzvot!
Morah Chanie Winter
FIFTH GRADE GENERAL STUDIES
In Math, we have been delving deeper into fractions and exploring exponential numbers.
In Science, we are working on a unit on weather. We have been data mining weather patterns over select time periods on http://weatherspark.com.
In Language Arts, we have been reading books such as Francine Fribble Proofreading Police, Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street, and A. Lincoln and Me. These books have helped us to develop effective writing strategies that include idea generation, organization, and the use of writing conventions. We are applying these strategies to write our own essays, including one about a famous person from American History and another based on observations of the (extra)ordinary staff at our school. Also, since we are studying the American Revolution in Social Studies, we wrote personal diaries about and letters to a person from that period.
Miss Erin Schaflein
 SCRATCH PROGRAMMING
This trimester, several grades have worked with "Scratch" to create custom animations. Scratch was developed by researchers at MIT to enable young people to learn programming skills while having fun. The program incorporates "drag and drop" with programming commands to teach students logic and mathematical concepts, while expressing themselves. Ask your student what he/she created! You may download Scratch at www.scratch.mit.edu to your home computer, free of charge, for your young techie to work on over the summer!
Mrs. Debbie Friedman
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AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
The EH A Chess Club will be holding an award ceremony on Wednesday, June 1 at 3:40 p.m. in the Beit Midrash. Guests are welcome to attend!
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TIP FOR BUYING SCRIP
SHOPPING EARNS MONEY
FOR THE SCHOOL!
Let's continue to make the Scrip program really earn dividends for EHA for the remainder of the year, in 3 easy ways.......
Schnucks' eScrip
Scan you Schnucks eScrip card every time you shop at Schnucks. The more often you use it, the more the school earns (upto 3% of the value of your purchase).
EHA Scrip
Use EHA scrip at Diamant's, Kohn's and the Loop Farmers Market. The school earns 5% of the value of your purchase! EHA scrip is available immediately, every day, from the office.
Gift Cards
Hundreds of national and local retailers participate in a scrip program called Great Lakes Scrip Center and the school earns a percentage of the cards face value. You can order from the school office, or online at www.shopwithscrip.com.
Order Now
Please phone, e-mail or send an online order form to the office by 10:00 am Monday mornings to receive your cards the same week, or order online for even quicker delivery. And you can order and immediately receive eCards from a growing number of retailers using ScriptNow! at www.shopwithscrip.com. For more details, see the EHA website, at http://www,eha.org/Scrip/html
Earn towards your 2011-2012 scrip deposit this summer, by ordering gift cards for all of your entertainment and travel needs!
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GET GREAT LABELS FOR CAMP!
Using Oliver’s Labels on all your kids’ stuff is a
great way to identify their belongings and help
keep them out of the “lost-and-never-found” pile. Beautiful products available include sticky, dishwasher-proof kosher labels, that go in the dishwasher, microwave, fridge, freezer and outdoors. Clothing labels are easy to apply and can be thrown into the washing machine and dryer. To obtain a 20% commission on your purchase for EHA, click here or on the logo, above!
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 Did you know that EHA Is an affiliate of Kosher Casual?
KosherCasual offers high-quality, modern yet modest school clothing basics for girls, teens, and women and it is all made in Israel. To earn a 5% commission for EHA, type EHA in the textbox for the ‘School or Organization who referred you’ during check-out, at www.koshercasual.com.
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Please donate gently-used household, toys, sports and clothing items to FHA for a rummage sale to benefit Epstein Hebrew Academy. We plan to hold the sale no later than June 5th and really need items NOW!
We can make arrangement to receive goods on a Sunday if you call ahead: Angela Tannenbaum at 802-7710 or the office, 994-7856. Receipts for tax purposes available.
THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!!!!!
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RECYCLING FUNDRAISERS
On top of being fundraisers, these projects are good for the environment.
Epstein receives $2 to spend at Office Depot for each used toner cartridge we return. Bring in all your used toner cartridges, and drop them off in the box in the front hall, and we will exchange them for office/classroom supplies!
We are also collecting other types of USED ELECTRONICS, such as cell phones, iPods, computers, etc. which we will turn in to raise fund to buy new technology products from http://www.digitalwish.com/.
Epstein also collects paper to recycle for a fundraiser, through Abitibi.com. Our bright yellow and green paper bin is located in the parking lot, in front of Block Yeshiva Girls High School. Abitibi accepts office paper, junk mail, magazines, and posters, but not cardboard of any kind. Instead of throwing it in the trash or giving it away for free, bring in your paper to us! In May, we received a check for $17 for over 800 lbs. of recycling, saving 1.31 cubic yards in landfill space!
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Multiply your Box Tops contribution!
Remember to continue looking for Box Tops and turn them in to the school office. Ask your friends and relatives to collect for us, too - EHA receives 10 cents for each one. We sent in a submission for $217.60 today! Thanks to all of our supporters, we have submitted $741 in Box Tops this year, exceeding our goal by almost 20%!!!
We collected 130 Box Tops so far in May - that's $13! Congrats to Gavin Kornblum, the May Box Tops raffle winner! Click here for a Box Top "turn-in" sheet.
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MAY 27-29 RABBI SHLOMO RISKIN
Torah MiTzion Kollel and Young Israel will be hosting Scholar-In-Residence Rabbi Shlomo Riskin of Efrat and Ohr Torah Stone Institutions. Rabbi Riskin will be speaking at the following events:
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Oneg Shabbat at the Fendelman home @ 9:45 p.m.
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Young Israel Shabbat morning drasha (services begin at 9:00 a.m.) and pre-mincha shiur at 6:45 p.m.
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Melave Malka at the Koshner home, @ 9:45 p.m. on "Is Israel Still Jewish? What Can We Do About the Greatest Menace Facing Israel?"
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Community Lecture on Sunday, May 29th, 7:30 p.m. at Young Israel on "Modern Orthodoxy and Religious Zionism: Challenges and Opportunities," followed by a panel discussion with the shlichim from the Ohr Torah Stone's Straus Amiel Institute.
FREE BIKE HELMETS
University City residents may take their children to get a free bike helmets or helmet check by calling 314-505-8612 and making an appointment at Centennial Commons, 7210 Olive Blvd. You will need to bring proof of residency. For more information, click here.
TOMCHEI SHABBOS FUND
 RSVP required by 6/1, to 314.726.2163 ~OR~ TomcheiShabbosSTL@gmail.com (please include no. persons attending ~ children welcome).
The Barbara Mendelson Tomchei Shabbos Fund is always accepting donations of non-perishable items such as tuna fish, soup & soup mixes, grape juice, canned vegetables, peanut butter, jelly, cereal, pareve cake mixes, etc. A bin is available in the school lobby. Cash donations can be left in the office in a sealed envelope or mailed to: Tomchei Shabbos/Vaad Hoeir of St. Louis, 4 Millstone Campus Drive, Saint Louis, MO 63146-5776. For more information, click here.
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