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The Charlotte Jewish News - March 2016 - Page 8 School Judaica at CJP: It’s More Than Just Holidays Our Judaica curriculum is hol iday driven. As we approach the holidays, from Rosh Hashanah to Shavuot and all that’s in-between you can experience Judaism sim ply by walking through our hall ways and observing the art projects on our bulletin boards or Meg D. Goldstein Attorney-At-Law Estate Planning, Estate and Trust Administration, Pre-Marital Agreements, Charitable Planning and Entities, General Corporate and Tax Eaw, Business Succession Planninc 5960 Fairview Road, Suite 400 Charlotte, North Carolina 28210 Tel: 704.523.2202 ♦ Fax: 704.496.2716 MGOLDSTEIN{a)MGOLDLAW.COM ♦ WWW.MGOLDLAW.GOM listening to the songs sung in music class. You have not wit nessed the future of the Jewish people until you have attended one of our weekly CJP Shabbat celebrations. Our students are an imated as they sing traditional prayers like Shalom Aleichem and the Shema and they remain capti vated through the D’var Torah of the week led by a visiting rabbi from either synagogue. But our preschoolers know that Judaism is not just what happens in preparation for or during the holidays and Shabbat. In our classrooms Jewish values are present. The Charlotte Jewish Pre school Judaica curriculum encom passes the chagim (Jewish holidays), Torah teachings, and Judaic concepts; we emphasize five core Torah teachings and Ju daic values that all preschoolers should live by: 1. Tikkun 01am - Performing acts of kindness to help repair our world. 2. Hachnasat Orchim - Wel coming visitors and treat them nicely. 3. Derech Eretz - Being polite and respectful. 4. B’tzelem Elohim - Everyone is created in God’s image. 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This ex periential education gives our stu dents a hands-on experience that they will never forget. Hachnasat Orchim Our children love visitors. At Chanukah we have our annual Latkes, Lights, and Love program for parents or close family friends to do a special activity with their child. Before the program, our students create personalized invi tations to bring home to their par ents to cordially invite their parents. When parents arrive, stu dents greet their special visitors and must be on their best behavior while they are there. While sepa rating can be difficult for our younger students, we find that hosting Latkes, Lights, and Love and other special programs instill in our kids the Judaic value of hachnasat orchim. Each week at Shabbat we wel come a visiting rabbi to our Shab bat service led by Morah Becca and Miss Patty. After the Torah service, Morah Becca prepares the students for the D’var Torah by saying “please keep your listening oznayim (ears) on and your peh (mouth) closed for our Rabbi.” This teaches our students that when we have a visitor we exer Oil Julie Youv Pl. ace CRS - Certified Residential Specialist (3% of all Realtors) SRES - Senior Real Btate Specialist Five Star Professional Winner (7% of agents in Charlotte) ABR, e-PRO, SPS. QSC THE REALTOR WITH EXPERIENCE jfcrV & KNOWLEDGE TRUSTED BY PROpSk’nATrfii ac liet- BUYERS SELLERS RELOCATION 704.236.7536 Julie@Nj ulieldiclie.com com DOWNLOAD OUR APP AT THE APP STORE ^C] B D3 cise our respectful behavior to show that we are grateful they came and we are interested in what they will teach us. Hachnasat orchim is a weekly, if not daily, practice for all of our students. Derech Eretz If you were to spend a day in one of our vibrant classrooms, no doubt you would hear the phrase “make a good choice” more than once. Our job as early childhood educators is not to give students the right answer all the time, but to guide them toward making their own right decisions. We do not tell our students what the “good choice” is, rather we instill in them the confidence and where withal to make their own right de cisions. B ’tzelem Elohim Early childhood education is imperative to teach socialization starting at a young age. Starting from 12 months, our students are learning to be good citizens and friends through sharing, respectful communication, collaboration, and more. But, we all know that a child’s favorite question is “why?” At CJP, it’s easy. We teach our students that each one of us has a piece of God in our heart; we are made b’tzelem Elohim. Not only must we nurture and care for God inside of us, but we are kind to our friends because God is inside of them, too. This explana tion turns an abstract concept into something physical that a child can understand. Tzar Ba’alei Chayim So many of our CJP friends have a pet that is part of their fam ily. These pets are a great way to teach young children about the re sponsibility of taking care of a liv ing being. At home, they can help to feed, play, and snuggle with their furry family members. This is their first exposure to true re sponsibility and caring for another living being. For our students without a pet at home, we spend an entire month learning Torah stories about our Bible heroes who performed tzar ba’alei chayim and our three-year olds take a trip to the “farm.” There they have an opportunity to take care of animals in the petting zoo and enjoy their experiential edu cation in which we turn an ab stract concept into a physical activity. At CJP we instill a love of Ju daism in the children, not only through the Chagim but by being a mensch. And that is how to gether we Learn. Grow. And Con nect. ^ 1,^41 Charlotte Jewish Preschool LEARN . CAOW • CONNECT
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