Throughout their Elementary School experience, David Posnack Hebrew Day School students meet and master new challenges in a comprehensive range of subjects, including reading, oral and written expression, spelling, social studies, math, science, Judaic Studies, Hebrew, prayer and physical education. Weekly co-curricular classes such as computer education, art, music, and media center, along with periodic visits to the science lab and demonstrative use of lab materials, add excitement and enrich the core curriculum.

General Studies
Responding to the students’ innate curiosity about their ever-widening world, opportunities are provided for investigation, inquiry, critical thinking and problem solving. Instruction occurs through a variety of strategies from teacher-directed lessons to cooperative learning experiences.

Recognizing that students differ in abilities, learning styles, interests and motivation, students are separated into levels for Hebrew and math classes beginning in second grade. Those students requiring additional help in reading are given small group or one-to-one instruction by a credentialed specialist.

Our enrichment programs reflect the view that the world is a classroom. Field trips take place as an enhancement of subject area studies and serve as a primary source for information and research. Use of community resources begins in kindergarten and continues throughout the DPHDS experience. Classes enliven their studies with trips to places such as the Anne Kolb Nature Center, Plaster Castle, Coral Springs City Center, Broward Theater for the Performing Arts, Kennedy Space Center, St. Augustine and Marine Lab. In addition, visiting rabbis conduct workshops on shofar and matzo making, and children explore science first-hand as the High Touch-High Tech program brings science enrichment into the classroom.

In addition to imparting a broad range of academic and creative knowledge and skill, DPHDS aims to help students acquire the moral, social, and interpersonal skills they need to thrive at school and in the world. Through teacher and peer modeling and direct practice, even our youngest students learn about, and are expected to, share and care for school and personal property, clean up for themselves, keep their personal spaces neat, use appropriate manners and courtesy at all times, work in cooperative groups, work toward resolving conflicts with one another, and work toward making appropriate right/wrong choices for themselves.

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Judaic Studies
At DPHDS, we believe that children should not only learn about Judaism; they should also experience it directly through prayer, Shabbat and holiday celebrations, and a set of behavioral expectations rooted in Torah and Jewish tradition. Living their Judaism has a great impact upon shaping children’s life-long beliefs, attitudes and values. It helps them develop a more complete, wholesome self-concept and identification with the family unit, their fellow students, the Jewish community, the American people, and the world at large.  

Throughout the course of their Elementary School Judaic studies experience, our students learn to listen, speak, read and write in modern Hebrew for classroom purposes and for the understanding and study of classical and modern Hebrew texts. To the extent practicable, Hebrew is the language used for instruction in Torah study. Selected practical conversational units are also an essential part of the Hebrew language program. 

Elementary School students study Hebrew language, prayer, holidays and traditions, history and culture of the modern State of Israel, and, beginning in Elementary School, students learn about the historical facts and humanitarian implications of the Holocaust, with increasingly detailed information being presented each year in an age-appropriate manner.

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