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The Charlotte Jewish News - February 2015 - Page 20 L’Dor V’Dor: Grandparents Day at The Charlotte Jewish Preschool Seize the Day School (Continued from previous page) By Becca Weiner One of the most beautiful as- peets of Judaism is the passing down of traditions from genera tion to generation. At holiday eel- ebrations we reeyele reeipes handed down from our grandpar ents and we teaeh our ehildren our family’s eustoms. Eaeh February at The Charlotte Jewish Pre- sehool, we weleome our students’ grandparents into our elassrooms so they ean wateh the next gener ation in their family take on Jew ish traditions. Our grandparents spend a morning with their grand- ehildren, our presehool students, learning how they spend their days in a Jewish setting. Miss Miriam and Miss Liye are two of our full-day fours teaehers who transform their elassroom on Grandparents Day to showease the talents and abilities of their students. They want their room to feel different beeause Grandpar ents Day is a eelebration - it’s not every day that our students get to bring their very speeial guests to sehool. Students prepare by deeo- rating tableeloths and gathering speeial paper goods for snaek. Typieally our elasses have a eraft beeause students and grand parents love having a keepsake from this speeial day. In the past, Miss Miriam’s elass has made elay tea sets and pieture frames. She tries extra hard to eapture memorable photographs through out the event that ean later be printed and sent home with the kids, so they have pietures to go in their photo frame. The energy level in the elass room goes up any time there is a guest, but when our grandparents eome to sehool it goes up a few extra levels. The ehildren are so exeited to share a day with their grandparents and are all over the room showing off their art work on the walls and their favorite eenters to play in during the day. Grandparents are sueh speeial people to our students that they put all of their foeus on showing off their elassroom to their sabas and saftas. The highlight of Grandparents Day is our Shabbat serviee. Grandparents sit with their grand- ehildren and their elasses and par- tieipate in our weekly Shabbat serviee led by Morah Beeea and Miss Patti. From Bim Bam all the way to Oseh Shalom our students sing all the traditional Shabbat songs as their grandparents kvell over them. Our students eover their eyes as we ehant the blessing over the eandles and hug the Torah as it is passed around. Our students will enjoy Grand parents Day this year is on Friday, February 13. This is one of our fa vorite days of the year. Have your ehild enjoy speeial days like Grandparents Day. The Charlotte Jewish Presehool is eurrently enrolling for the 2015- 2016 sehool year. We are happy to give you a tour at your eonven- ienee. For more information or to sehedule a tour, please eontaet Alyson Kalik at akalik@shalom- eharlotte.org or 704-944-6776. We look forward to meeting you. ^ Chariotte Jewish Preschool 99 Your own offspring toachos you mason. -Talmud: Yebamoth 63 ^ L ■ ir: I On the other hand, a kipah is just a kipah. I love the faet that Shoshi’s growing up Jew-positive. It’s been great experienee, aetu- ally. Throughout Kindergarten, we slugged our way through var ious Hebrew-language pieture books. At first it was great fun to try and deeode the right-to-left volumes but then, one day, she asked, “Daddy, how eome you don’t read Hebrew the way you read English?” By whieh she meant: “Why so slow. Dad? And why don’t you understand every thing you read? These books are for toddlers!” I explained that Grandma and Pop didn’t send me to day sehool and that I really had to teaeh myself Hebrew. But for her, it’s beeoming a natural part of her daily voeabulary. “Lo la’gaat,” she’ll say to her little brother when he grabs for something he shouldn’t. “Tov!” she’ll announee when she’s happy. “Lamah?” she’ll ask, instead of “Why?” when we want her to do something that’s not to her liking. Her Hebrew is still basie, but it won’t be for long. Shoshi has a friend in her elass whose older brother is also Solly kid. The friend says, of Hebrew: “It’s our seeret language that our parents don’t understand.” And there, haverim, is the Jew- ish-Ameriean rub. I fear beeom ing isolated from my ehild, the possibility that this edueation, while obviously good for her. might pull her away from me. Whieh reminds me of something I read in a memoir about an Amer- iean kid who leaves law sehool to beeome a speeehwriter for Ariel Sharon. “In a way I blame my par ents,” he writes. “Their deeision to enroll me in Jewish day sehool two deeades earlier had set me on a path that would, almost in evitably, lead me either to law sehool or to the Israel Defense Forees.” Now, do I really think that the road out of day sehool leads direetly to the IDF or Law Sehool? Lo. In faet, I ean’t begin to guess where Shoshi will wind up, and it’s probably idiotie to worry about it. When I really use my Jewish head and set aside my fears, I must eonelude that the day-sehool experienee will make Shoshi a smarter and better per son, and a more knowledgeable Jew. Hard to be ambivalent about that kind of thing, whether or not you’re wearing a kipah. ^ Reprintedfrom myjewishlearn- ing.com with permission from the Partnership for Excellent in Jewish Education (PEJE), www.peje.org.. i CJDS Charlotte Jewish Day School -I lUldHaCwf MPEUMBI 2nd-Sth Grades GTHRU TEEN niep {Half-day/Full-day) * Mommy & Me * Preschool Car * Traditional Camp: Grades K-5 * Sports, Arts, or Lego ' Focus Camps * Teen Leadership Camps * AM/PM Extended Care Program Join with fellow artists & mount a full scale :; ^ « musicalproductioninjusta few weeks! ' • Build Skills (impfov, character, voice, movement) • Singing, dancing and acting roles • Hightytrainedinstructors FULL DAY Mea-Fri Disney's little Mermaid, Jr. 9am-4pm June 22-July 17 (4 wks) Free to Be...Ycu & Me July 2D-August 7 {3 wks) LJCC SUMMER SPORTS CAMPS June IS-19 Flag Football (6-12 yrs) Full Day 'Vmtm-fMd'Stim0L., COMBINE BOTH SESSIONS! Disney’s Little Mermaid, Jr. AND Free to Be... 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