Dear

Mazal Tov on your hard work in the study of the Mitzvos and for being selected to represent your school at the Chidon HaMitzvos.

The Chidon weekend will be Shabbos Parshas Hachodesh - From Thursday 25 Adar 5767 - March 15 2007 - To Sunday 28 Adar 5767 - March 18 2007 - The Program begins Thursday @ 8:30am at the Jewish Children's Museum 792 Eastern Pkwy. You must be on time for the opening speech.

VIP Tickets
We will be making the best seats available for the parents and family members of the children. If you have family Members are friends that would like tickets, make sure to reserve as they are going very fast. Call 718.907.8897 or email: 613@tzivoshashem.org        

Arrival Information 
For those who are flying, you will be going to either JFK or LGA. We will pick you up, and take you back to the airport. 

Chidon Tests
At the Chidon they you be tested on the following material 

Day School 
Sefer Mada - Mitzvos 1- 75

Yeshiva School 
5th grade: Mada 1- 75 
6th grade: Mada 1- 75  & Shoftim  1- 75  
7th grade: Mada 1- 75  -  Shoftim  1- 75  & Kinyan 1 - 18 
8th grade: Mada 1- 75  -  Shoftim  1- 75 -   Kinyan 1 - 18  & Nezikin 1 -36
	
For all Talmidim in 6th – 8th grade There will be questions that cross Seforim. (part of the answer is in one Sefer & another part is in a different Sefer! i.e a multiple choice questions with 4 options that could all be correct:
a) A Mokor that’s found in Madah  
b) A Mitvzha that’s found in Shfotim
c) A Mossai Noheges that’s found in Kinyan
d) A Bmi Nohages that’s found in Nezikin
e) All of the above    

Pesukim
Darga Aleph (5th & 6th Grades) will not be tested on the pesukim.
Darga Beis (7th & 8th grades) will be tested on the pesukim.
However, the children do not have to memorize all the pesukim by heart; they have to be able to recognize a possuk in a question. 

Mitzvah Numbers 
The children will not be tested on the number of each mitzvah.

Wednesday 	
	All Talmidim should arrive Wednesday evening   	
Thursday 			
7:30am 	Shacharis 	770	
8:30am  	opening speech, Divide the teams	museum ball room   	
9:00am  	Busses Leave to the ohel	Outside Museum 	
10:45am   	Breakfast	Ohel 	
11:15am  	Busses leave Ohel 	Ohel 	
1:30pm  	Snow Tubing & Swimming        	Fernwood 	
5:30pm  	Busses Leave back to crown heights 		
8:15pm  	Supper	JCM	
10:00pm  	Return to Hosts 		
Friday	
8:00am  	Shachris	770 	
9:00am  	Breakfast	JCM Ballroom  	
10:00am  	The Grand Test	JCM Lower Level 	
1:00pm  	Roller Skating Trip & Lunch	Empire Blvd  - Bedford & Rogers 	
4:00pm  	Back to your hosts 		
6:45pm  	Hadlokas Neiros	Hosts 	
Shabbos			
7:45pm  	Kabolas Shabbos  	770	
8:30pm  	Seudas Shabbos 	Hosts	
Shabbos Day			
8:00am  	Mikvah		
8:15am 	Mezonos 	770	
8:30am  	Tehillim 	770	
10:30am 	Shachris	770	
1:00pm	Seudas Shabbos	OT	
3:00pm  	Play Practice	OT	
5:00pm 	Plays	OT	
6:30pm  	Mincha	770	
7:00pm 	Sader Niggunim 	770	
7:45pm 	Marriv	770	
Motzoei Shabbos			
8:00pm	Concert & Melava Malkah & Museum 	JCM	
10:30pm 	Return to Hosts  		
Sunday	
8:00am  	Shachris	770	
9:30am  	Breakfast 	JCM	
10:00am  	Chidon Practice	JCM	
12:00am  	Go to the Chidon       		
12:30am  	Lunch	George Wingate  	
1:00pm  	Chidon	George Wingate  	
4:00 	Back to JCM – 		
5:00 	Good bye party - Have a Wonderful Safe Trip Home – It was an amazing weekend!	JCM	

What to Bring List

_______ Chitas

_______ Sefer Hamitzvos

_______ Clothes for Thursday

_______ Clothes for Friday

_______ Shabbos Clothes

_______ Clothes for Sunday

_______ Clothes for Monday (If you are staying) 

_______ Night Clothes

_______ Pens, Pencils, Writing Paper

_______ Weekday Shoes and Shabbos Shoes

_______ Bathing Suite 

_______ Towel

_______ Toiletries (Toothbrush, Toothpaste, Shampoo etc.)

_______ Any Medication, along with a note from parent describing amount of dosage and any other information needed

_______ Medical Card

_______ Food for trip to New York - Your first meal being provided is Thursday morning breakfast!

How will the Chidon Work? 

On Friday, you will take a written test similar to the ones that you have taken until now. They will consist of multiple-choice & true or false. There will be many more questions than the ones that you have taken. The test could take between 1.5 and 2 hours, if need be. 

This test will determine the final winners.

The rest of the program on Thursday, Friday, Shabbos and Sunday will be with teams made up from the different schools. 

There will be six teams of 20 children. 

On Shabbos we will be doing several things with the teams, like making skits, and have several rounds of questions, so that the get the hang of the way the chidon will work! By the Chidon itself you will be sitting on stage in teams.

It will not be for individual points! 

Team Competition

In addition to the individual competition which will take place on Friday, there will be team competition. All the contestants from all the schools will be divided into six groups. Each group will be given a name based on six of the Rambam’s Seforim: Moreh Nevuchim, Sefer Hamitzvos, Yad Hachazokoh, Pirush Hmishnayus, Shalos Utshuvos, Egeres Horambam.

On Shabbos each of the teams will be asked to perform a five minute skit in which they will attempt to incorporate as many of the mitzvos from Sefer Mishpotim & Sefer Kinyan The skits will be judged for creativity, presentation and the number of mitzvos the teams were able to include in the skit. 

On Sunday at the Chidon the teams will participate in the Sefer Hamitzvos Game Show and Trivia.

There will be two separate rounds for Darga 1 and Darga 2. Each team will have a Counselor and one boy on each team will be selected as a reporter. 

All Darga 1 members of the team will be called up to the stage. They will sit with their teammates and a counselor. 

First there will be the game show which will run as follows: On the screen will be projected a table with 12 options from which to choose. 

There will be 4 questions (2 easy and 2 difficult) 

Each of the teams will get a chance to choose which question they want to answer. For example:

Team Moreh Nevuchim will select a 200 point question from column 2.

They will have the first opportunity to answer the question. There will be a time limit for them to answer the question. 

For the 100 point questions, 15 seconds
For the 200 point questions, 30 seconds
For the 400 point questions, 60 seconds

In the meantime the other teams will try to figure out the answer. The first team that knows the answer will push the buzzer.

Once the buzzer is sounded, Moreh Nevuchim is required to answer the question immediately. If they are not able to answer the question the do not loose or gain any points, however if they get the answer wrong they will lose the points.

If they don’t know the answer the opportunity will be given to the team that pushed the buzzer first to answer the question and get the points. If they know the answer they receive the points, if they don’t know the answer they lose the points.

We will then move on to the next team and then the next team until six questions are chosen. 

The next stage of the competition will be a skit! A skit will be performed on stage including some of the Mitzvos.  Two minutes will be given for each team work out how many Mitzvos were included in the Skit. Every boy on every team will write down as many answers as he comes up with.

Another minute will be given for the teams to compile one list. One of the teams will be asked to read the answers on their sheet. 

If other teams have the same answer, the reporter for the team (and no one else) will say “I have that answer.” Two hundred points will be given for every answer that only one team has.

All talmidim from Darga 1 will leave the stage. On the way down from the stage they will receive a certificate and a sefer.

After the intermission, Darga 2 will go on to the stage and go through the same thing as Darga 1. The points will be added up and one of the teams will be declared the winner.