The Charlotte Jewish News - March 2016 - Page 9
How Do You Celebrate Tu BiShevat in the Winter?
It might be the Rosh Hashanah
for the trees, but it is a ehallenge
to mark it when our elimate does
not mateh the weather in Israel.
Morah Donna takes her first
grade to the wooded trails in
Boyee Park eaeh year on Tu Bi
Shevat. Yes, the trees are bare
and it is eold and wet. But, Kitah
Aleph still found a way to appre-
eiate the trees. The letters of the
Hebrew alphabet, the Alef Bet,
are fresh in the ehildren’s minds.
They are learning what they look
like, their sounds, and how they
blend into the words onee vowels
are added to them. Using them in
a variety of modalities is the best
way to eement the pietures and
knowledge in their brains. When
walking on these trails, Morah
Donna asks the ehildren to find
braneh and tree formations that
resemble the letters they know.
She also tells them, that they ean
use their bodies to eomplete the
letter in the tree. Using all of our
senses is the way to learn, the
way to store what we’ve learned.
Todah, Morah Donna! ^
Raish.
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