The Charlotte Jewish News - October 2018 - Page 15
Learning and Reflection for All through the Holiday Season ^
By Emily Snyder
The Jewish month of Tishrei is
traditionally a month of new be
ginnings. We see it in our neigh
borhoods, as ehildren gather on
the eomer and hop on the big
yellow sehool bus. We see it as
we drive to work or sehool, and
notiee more ears on the road. We
see it at home during bedtime and
wake up — new routines and new
sehedules. We see it in our Jew
ish lives as we get ready to say,
L’Shana Tova to our family and
friends. We order a round ehallah
and shop for speeial yummy treats
that happen only at the beginning
of the year.
As we weleome all our fami
lies into the building, we see new
beginnings too. We have 64 new
families joining our eommunity,
we have 13 new staff members,
and we even have two additional
elassrooms. September is speeial
a month where our students get to
start fresh and eontinue their Jew
ish presehool journey.
At The Charlotte Jewish Pre
sehool, we look at all things
through Jewish values. The value
of limud, learning, is something
we foeus on all year, espeeially
during the days leading up to the
Jewish New Year. It is a time for
learning by refleeting on our past
year, and making goals for the
New Year. Our students, families,
and staff foeus on limud as they
too refleet and look forward.
Emily Snyder
Our students are given the
opportunity to praetiee limud
through provoeations set up in the
main lobby and in the elassrooms.
Provoeations provoke thoughts,
diseussions, questions, interests,
ereativity, and ideas. Over the past
year, we have been exploring open
ended aetivities that elieit ereativ
ity and individual thought, as well
as how to set up intentional prov-
oeations. Many of our staff mem
bers had the opportunity to attend
the Paradigm Projeet Conferenee
in Pennsylvania last spring, where
experts in the held of early ehild-
hood edueation lead workshops
that trained our teaehers to be
fluent in making the elassroom
environment and eenter aetivities
as meaningful as possible. If you
walk into our main lobby you will
see an invitation for our families
to learn about themselves and the
eoming year as they experienee
“Rosh Hashanah on a table.”
Last month, as we learned
about Rosh Hashanah and Yom
Kippur, we asked our students
to notiee their feelings, say “Lm
sorry” when we make mistakes,
refleet on the year we’ve had, and
make goals for the year ahead.
This year we are asking our staff
to do the same. This month at Col
laborative Team Planning, a time
when age-alike teams of teaehers
get together with the Currieulum
Coordinator to plan for the month
of instruetion, our staff members
took time to refleet on their year,
and think about what they would
like to ehange for the year ahead.
Using the Hillel International
“Ask Big Questions” guide, our
staff read a poem by Marge Pierey
and were asked to diseuss what
images the poem eonjured, what
resonated with them, and most
of all, what the world needs from
them this year.
At the end of the day, we as
adults are no different than ehil
dren when it eomes to identifying
our feelings and ehallenging our
selves to think about the future.
It is hard to look inside ourselves
and make big ehanges. While
we may be busy running around
elassrooms setting up eenters,
typing lesson plans and imputing
them into Himama, giving out
nutritious snaek and making sure
they don’t interfere with any al
lergies, and all the eountless tasks
presehool teaehers do throughout
the day, it is worth it to stop, think
about our personal and profes
sional lives, and make promises
to ourselves about the upeoming
year.sJs
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A New Year Begins at JPS
Our school year at JPS, which
has experienced 35% enrollment
growth, started off with a bang,
with many new children and staff
members to welcome to our ev
er-growing family. School has
been filled with the sounds of
children learning and playing and
we are so excited for what this
year has in store for them. With
Rosh HaShanah arriving the same
time as the new school year, we
spent the first week of school pre
paring by listening to the shofar,
baking sweet round ehallah, and
tasting apples and honey - yum!
We just know that this year will
be a sweet one.
From the JPS family to yours,
we wish you a sweet new year. ^
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Shout out to Paige
Rabinowitz, JPS alumnus,
who filmed and produced our
Orientation video! Check it
out atjpskids.org.
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