The Charlotte Jewish News - April 2013 - Page 12
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Celebrate the Week of the Young Child at
the Jewish Preschool on Sardis
The giggle of a little one ean be
eontagious. Witnessing a little one
reeite the braeha in dramatie play
before their pretend meal is heart
warming. Observing a little one
master elimbing the rope on the
playground is inspiring. It is the lit
tle moments eolleetively added
together that make up early ehild-
hood. Nothing reminds us more to
honor these milestones than the
National Assoeiation for the Edu-
eation of Young Children’s Week
of the Young Child.
The Week of the Young Child™
is an annual eelebration sponsored
by the National Assoeiation for the
Edueation of Young Children
(NAEYC). The purpose of the
Week of the Young Child™ is to
foeus publie attention on the needs
of young ehildren and their fami
lies and to reeognize the early
ehildhood programs and serviees
that meet those needs. The 2013
Week of the Young Child™ is April
14-20 and the theme is Early
Years Are Learning Years®.
(www.naeye.org)
In addition to the programs and
serviees, we also bring publie at
tention to those that make it hap
pen: parents, teaehers, the ehildren
themselves. Parents are the baek-
bone of early learning. IPS wit
nesses this dedieation on a daily
basis. Parents take the time to eome
in and eonverse with teaehers at the
beginning or end of the day. Par
ents volunteer for in and out of
sehool projeets to support IPS and
eommunity efforts that matter to
their family. Parents support the
basie need to find the best eare for
their ehildren simply by enrolling
their ehild at IPS, attending
Mommy & Me elasses and partie-
ipating in enriehment elasses.
The Jewish Presehool on Sardis
staff is eontinually going above and
beyond to find ways to improve
her eraft and evolve into the best
teaeher she ean be. That may be in
the form of reading artieles or eon-
dueting researeh to help a ehild
overeome an obstaele. It may be in
the form of registering for a elass
or program to take their formal ed
ueation to the next level or it may
be simply getting down on a ehild’s
level to hear their perspeetive and
respeet their voiee. To honor Week
of the Young Child, JPS will host a
staff training to learn more praeti-
eal applieations to use in the elass-
room.
And most importantly, Week of
the Young Child honors ehildren.
The first 300 weeks of life are the
most eritieal for brain development
and sets them on the eourse for
positive soeial and edueational de
velopment. The Jewish Presehool
on Sardis strives to honor that daily
with loving eare, appropriately
ehallenges to meet and exeeed eaeh
need a ehild has and to allow them
for sueeess. The eulmination of the
week will end with our 3rd Annual
Kids on the Run held at JPS. Chil
dren will exereise their ability on
the traek and eelebrate all they are
and all they will beeome.
If you would like more informa
tion about Kids on the Run or any
programs the Jewish Presehool on
Sardis offers, please eall our offiee
at 704-364-8395 or visit www.jp-
sonsardis.org. ^
At JPS we have a blast celebrating Purim. We started with a costume
parade followed by a carnival, we gave our friends
Purim Baskets, Rabbi
Weiss read the megillah
and of course we at
delicious hamentashen.
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It’s Always Sunny for the “Raneys”
By Jason Stoogenke
Jaekson “Jaek” Raney is a man
... a little man that is ... of few
words.
He ean talk up a storm, but he
prefers to ehoose his words
wisely. Carefully. When he says
something, you know it’s well
thought out.
Ask him what he likes best
about CJP or the 3s, he smiles.
It isn’t until his friend, Owen,
says, “The dinosaurs!” that Jaek’s
big, dark eyes grow wide and he
pipes up, “Yeah!”
“Yeah!”
That word says it all.
His older brother, Nathan, a
distinguished CJP alum, puts it
differently.
Even though Nathan’s in first
grade - and that means he’s been
out of CJP for a whole two years -
he ean still remember what he
liked best.
Playing was “pretty fun.”
He just wishes CJP had the
new, “eool” playground when he
was a student there.
Now, when he goes to piek up
Jaek, he finds himself drawn to the
swings and enjoys “all the babies
trying to get me.”
(And like so many students past
and present this author has inter
viewed over the months, Nathan
seems to have a real faseination
with the elevator.) But when
Mom, Gen, and Dad, Bev, look at
Nathan, they praise CJP for
preparing him for elementary
sehool.
Nathan started CJP mid-year.
The other ehildren knew eaeh
other already.
But Gen says the teaehers were
very “weleoming” and “shaped
him,” that there was no “singling
out.”
They say Nathan ehanged “a lot
for the better” in just months.
“Ah, just wonderful,” Bev
ehimes in. “A loving environment
... no way he would have been
prepared the way he was.”
And he’s not just talking about
reading, knowing the alphabet for
kindergarten, going “gangbusters”
on letters as Bev ealls it.
Teaehers nurtured Nathan’s
eonfidenee, behavior, and listen
ing skills.
He walked right into elemen
tary sehool after that
“knowing what’s
what,” Bev says.
They also like how
Nathan and Jaek, who
are not Jewish, are
learning another lan
guage and traditions.
They find it endear
ing to hear Hebrew in
the house.
“It’s good for them to be aware
of different eultures,” they agree.
Then, there’s the praetieal side
of presehool they love about CJP.
The bottom line is they both work.
They need full day sehool.
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“There’s a reason we have them,”
Gen boils it down, like her gumbo,
being the Louisiana native she is.
And they are glad CJP’s “got it
under eontrol.”
“I don’t have to worry that I’m
going to get a phone eall about
every little thing,” Gen says.
“Oh, yes!” Bev jumps in, as if
Gen took the words out of his
mouth. “That’s huge!” Not every
sehool is like that.
They say CJP only ealls if there
is a real reason. A health issue or
something equally serious. That
CJP ealls “when you’d expeet [it]
to.”
That gives them peaee of mind
Jaek is in good hands.
Speaking of Jaek, he hears
Mom and Dad talking about his
sehool. He throws in a smile here
and there. Maybe a shrug if they
ask him if he agrees.
Then, he throws out an-
earefully ehosen
Charlottie Jewish
Preschod
other
word.
“Playground!”
Older brother Nathan
would agree.
Let the sun shine on your
ehild. For more information
about having your ehild
Learn, Grow, and Conneet with
us, please eontaet Alyson Kalik,
CJP registrar, at 704-944-6776 or
akalik@shalomeharlotte.org. Half
day enrollment for the 2013/2014
sehool year for ehildren ages 1 to
5 is eurrently underway. ^