The Charlotte Jewish News - January 2014 - Page 11
Reflections
By Jenny Tucker
The Charlotte Jewish Pre-
sehool will begin registration for
the 2014-2015 sehool year at our
Open House on Friday, January
10. We weleome families to visit
our sehool eommunity to diseover
the speeial plaee we eall CJP. CJP
will give your ehild all the tools
to learn and your family a plaee to
grow and eonneet. Eaeh year, we
ask families to write thoughts
about their experienee, so you ean
see our sehool through their eyes.
When we first started our jour
ney at CJP four years ago, we
weren’t very involved in the Jew
ish eommunity. Being an inter
faith eouple, we had not really
done mueh exploring or partiei-
pating in eommunity events.
Sometimes having ehildren ean
ehange your perspeetive on things
and the day we went to the Open
House at CJP, we knew that it was
the plaee for Lia. Right away we
felt at home at the sehool and had
a sense that CJP was the earing
and nurturing environment that
we were hoping to find for our
daughter. We found that and so
mueh more ... through Lia’s
friendships that started at CJP, we
have found our “Charlotte Jewish
family” that we eontinue to eele-
brate milestones and holidays
with, even though our ehildren
are in different sehools now.
We eannot say enough about
Schools
how earing and supportive the
staff has been at CJP. Our family
reeeived exeiting and shoeking
news around this time three years
ago. We found out that we were
having twins. As exeited and
thrilled with the news as we were,
we were also eoneemed about
what this would mean for Lia and
how she would adjust to getting a
brother and a sister at the same
time. The support and nurturing
that Lia reeeived from her teaeh-
ers and our family reeeived as
whole from the staff was ineredi-
ble. The foundation of relation
ships that Lia had with her friends
and teaehers and her eomfort
level at CJP really helped with her
adjustment to our new family dy-
namie. We really feel that the eon-
sistent and nurturing eare that she
reeeived at CJP really helped her
transition to role of being a big
sister times two.
CJP is sueh a family friendly
sehool. It just feels natural to want
to partieipate in the PTO and vol
unteer. Big or small, every eontri-
bution or effort is appreeiated.
Graduation last year was bitter
sweet as it was time for Lia to
move on to kindergarten. CJP pre
pared her well for kindergarten
and her transition has been seam
less. However, it was harder on
this momma than I thought it
would be. I was used to knowing
all of her friends and their fami
lies and being part of a small,
elose knit eommunity. Eventually
I followed her lead and I am
happy to say that I have adjusted
to kindergarten.
Thank goodness it was time for
the twins to start presehool and
we did not have to say goodbye to
CJP yet. Jake and Sydney started
presehool this year and we are
happy to say that their first sehool
experienee has been just as won
derful as Lia’s experienee. Jake
and Sydney were already eom-
fortable at CJP before they even
started sehool beeause of the
warm and weleoming staff. We
are so glad that we still have a few
years left on our CJP journey.
Please visit us experienee for
yourself our sehool and eommu
nity that the Tueker Family have
enjoyed. We are happy to give
you a tour at your eonvenienee or
plan on attending our Open House
on Friday, January 10 beginning
at 9:30 AM. For more information
or to sehedule a tour, please eon-
taet Alyson Kalik at akalik@
shalomeharlotte.org or 704-944-
6776. We look forward to meet
ing you.
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Through the Eyes of a JPS Student
It’s time for Mom to drop
me off at JPS for sehool. We
pull into the parking lot and
I wave to the grownups wait
ing for me at earpool. Onee I
give Mommy hugs and
kisses, I get out of the ear and
high five teaehers that take
me to my elassroom. Before
I get to elass, I wave to some
of the little kids going to the
little kids’ elassroom and
their Moms and Dads. When
I was little, that was my
me up. She sat and read stories to
me while I waited. After we get
baek to my elassroom, it’s time
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Levi and Hard selling ice cream on the play
ground.
was little, that was
elassroom but now I’m a big kid.
I see my teaeher at the door, wait
ing to give me my morning hug.
I love being able to take out my
luneh and put away my baekpaek
and wash my hands all by myself.
As I walk over the rug, I see my
teaehers have hung up my pieture
on the bulletin board. I love look
ing at all the art my friends and I
Mussi, Meir, Ms. Chaya, and Rivka walking
starting their school day
make at sehool; it’s just like being
in a museum. When the day starts
at eirele time, I get to say good
morning to my friends who are at
sehool today. Cirele time is fun
and I get my job for the day. My
teaehers know I ean do lots of
jobs; today I’m the mitzvah
helper.
After eirele, it’s time to play. I
get to ehoose any plaee in the
elassroom but today I ehoose to
build a hotel with my friends in
the bloek area first. Next, I think I
will go help my friends paint the
seulpture our whole elass made
last week. Or maybe I will go to
the listening eenter to hear a
story. I ean’t wait to go out
side to play after ehoiee time
inside. We are going to piek
vegetables from our garden.
I hope I get to piek an egg
plant. My Mom and Dad talk
about my teaehers telling
them about how mueh I’m
learning, but to me it just
feels like fun.
Walking baek to my elass
room after the playground
we pass by the offiee. I love
waving to the offiee workers.
That reminds me ... I think that
next play time I will make a pie
ture for Ms. Dedee’s offiee. She
has a museum in there, where
more of my friends art hangs. I re
member seeing that when I was
siek and waited for Dad to piek
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