The Charlotte Jewish News - March 2011 - Page 14
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8985 (06/09)
CjP is for Preschool
By Elka Bernstein, Person-in-
charge
abcdefghijklmnoP ... The let
ter P has heen a Prominent sound
running through the halls of the
Charlotte Jewish Presehool.
Clearly, P is for Presehool.
Children eome from all over our
eommunity in order to Play to
learn, Partake in edueational
aetivities. Prepare their minds and
bodies for growth, Partieipate in
enriehment elasses, allow their
imaginations to soar at the
Playground and for our families to
Plug into our rieh heritage.
However as winter eomes to a
elose and sPring quiekly
approaehes, the teaehers at the
Charlotte Jewish Presehool, find
that the letter P takes on a whole
new meaning.
The letter P started off the
month of February with a Dragon
Parade Prominently Put on by
the PreK elass. The whole sehool
watehed as the rieh eostumes,
daneers. Parasols, and dragons
floated through our hallways, as
PreK eelebrated their week long
study of China and the Chinese
New Year. The letter P did not
stoP at the Parade, but eontinued
the following week with Pajama
Day. Children, teaehers, sPeeialists
and staff showed uP for sehool
wearing their favorite PJs and
sliPPers. Parents helPed us
along as we Partieipated in a
sPeeial round robin and ate deli-
eious Paneakes. The letter P eon-
CJP celebrates Chinese New Year.
round out the month with lessons
for President’s Day. The
Presehool’s February mitzvah is
Tzar Ba’alei Chayim (Caring for
Animals). Our families donated
items to the animal reseue shelter
Paws in the Panhandle. The ehil-
dren were also visited by a sPeeial
theraPy dog named Bandit who
showed us how animals take eare
of People.
Mareh eomes in as a lion and
leaves like a lamb, but the leher
P is ever Present. CJP will wel-
eome sPring on Mareh 20. Mareh
will also bring exeiting, interae-
tive “P” aetivities. A sPeeial
Performanee by the Tarradiddle
Players will be enjoyed by all.
Dressed up for Pajama Day.
Purim Passes, Pesaeh learning
will Proeeed. Plagues, Pharoahs,
and Prineesses will Populate our
elassrooms.
As any reader ean tell, the let
ters of the alPhabet have a
Purposeful Plaee at the Charlotte
Jewish Presehool. The Charlotte
Jewish Presehool weleomes your
ehild to join the leher P at our
Perfeetly Postive enriehing
Presehool. You will diseover the
beauty of our CJP family, the
Professional quality of our teaeh
ers, magnifieent faeilities and a
seeular and Jewish edueation that
eonneets Presehoolers to the eom
munity and PrePares them for the
future. For more information
about enrolling your ehild
for the 2011/2012 sehool
year or the eurrent year.
Please eontaet Alyson Kalik,
CJP registrar, at 704-944-
6866 or akalik(@shalom
eharlohe.org.
(P.s. - see how many
“P”s your ehild ean find
after Perusing this artiele
and then, “like” the Charlotte
Jewish Presehool on
Faeebook. Tell us on
Faeebook how many Ps you
found. The first 50 “Likes”
will reeeive a CJP ear mag
net.) ^
tinned the fun by hosting a very
sPeeial visit from our grand-
Parents on February 18. Our
grandParents enjoyed their
Presehool morning learning with
their grandehildren and eelebrat-
ing Shabbat with our fabulous
Morah Beeea and Miss Patty. The
letter P even joined us on the
weekend to eelebrate CJP PTO’s
Green Garden Party Auetion.
Finally, the leher P helPed us
Our audienee of eager learners
will Partieipate with the
Performers as they aet out folk
tales. After the Performanee, our
students will foeus on the holiday
of Purim. The ehildren will
Pretend to live in Palaees, Parade
through the halls of Shalom Park
in eostumes, learn the story of
Purim and the mitzvah of Shalaeh
Minot. CJP will be Present at the
eommunity Purim eamival. When
$
Charlotte Jewish
Preschool
LEARN CROW ■ CONNECT
Financial Literacy at CJDS
(Continued from page 13)
three- or four-letter tieker symbols
for their seeurities? Students fol
low their investments using tieker
symbols they researeh on Yahoo
Finanee. Now, we are looking at
how our stoeks have performed
historieally. My 5th grade students
downloaded historieal data into
Exeel spreadsheets and made their
own stoek eharts. They graph high
and low priees, and they graph
volume (number of shares traded).
Their eharts rival any Wall Street
investor eharts beeause these 5th
grade students know how to for
mat eharts and ineorporate eorpo-
Charlotte
Jewish Day
School
rate logos in the ehart baekground.
So, do you see why I am so
lueky? I get to have intelligent,
mature finaneial diseussions with
my students, and use math and our
new laptops to play with money!
Also, when I read that ages 18-25
make up the largest growing age
group filing for bankruptey, I
know that our CJDS kids will
have the money skills they need to
avoid that filing. ^