Dear Grace,We really liked reading your blog!

We are the 5th grade Sharing Shabbat class at Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, New York.  Sharing Shabbat is a Hebrew and Jewish studies class that meets after school on Thursdays and for Shabbat Services and class on Saturdays until noon.

We thought we had a lot in common with you!  A ton of us liked One Direction and Good Luck, Charlie. (Genie got to go see One Direction in concert). We are big dog fans too and wonder what your favorite dog is. Do you have other favorite TV shows?

A lot of us also liked to swim and wondered what your favorite swim stroke is and how far you can swim

without getting tired. Some of us are on swim teams.  What songs do you sing in Chorus? We are in choruses too at our regular daytime schools.

Some of the songs we’ve sung in chorus are:
Penny Lane, Rainbow Connection, Keep a Song in Your Pocket, Down Calipso Wa.

We also wondered why you use the elevator at school and if it was fun to use. And we thought that it was cool that you were going to Homecoming and wondered what it was like.We wanted to tell you that we liked your name.

We made lists of the things we liked. Did you like anything on our lists?

Sports we Like:Skiing
Softball
tennis
Wakeboarding
Football
Hockey
Basketball
Paddle Tennis
Ping pong
Canoeing
Hiking
Baseball
Soccer

We are all in 5th grade but go to a lot of different regular schools.

Our favorite subjects are:  Writing / science / reading / PE / Social Studies / Math / Art / RECESSWe love cooking and eating A LOT.

Our favorite foods to cook and eat are:

Cookies
Chocolate cake
Spaghetti
Brownies
Scrambled eggs
Cereal
Egg with a hole in the middle (egg cooked in bread)
French toast
Pancakes
Waffles
Rainbow cookies

Here are some words we used to describe ourselves:

Energetic
“Bob O’Pedic”
athletic
talented
humorous
crazy
sophisticated
warm
happy

We had a good time writing you this long letter. There are a lot of us but only one of you. It is fine to write just one response to our whole class.

Thank you and we can’t wait to hear back from you!Sincerely,

Jordana, Eliza, Genie, Robert, Raphael, Danielle, Sam, Josh, Matthew, Jane, and Zac