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Kindergarten: The Power of Our Words and Actions - Part 2 During tefila last week, an alarm went off on my phone catching the attention of the kindergarten students. I explained that I was setting an alarm at different times leading up to Rosh Hashanah to remind me to think about what I want to do better for the coming year. I pulled out my "to do" list and shared it with everyone. I invited every student to think about one or two things that they would like to do better in the new year and really work on it.  Building upon the idea from the past few weeks that our words and actions have a lot of power and connecting back with the concept of one person's words and actions can have an amazing DOMINO EFFECT on others, we read the book Because Brian Hugged His Mother by David L. Rice.  Ask your child...Because Brian hugged his mother, how many other people had his kindness passed on? After reading the story, we worked in small groups an...

The Peace Bag...Some THINGS that remind me of peace... By Stephanie Rotsky It was such a pleasure to introduce myself to this year's kindergarten students during the first week of school! I see it as a true privilege and a huge responsibility to be one of their teachers who helps lay the foundation for them to explore what it means to be peaceful and recognize and tap into the power that they have to make peace happen in their world. This is serious stuff and hopefully our path of learning and doing will be great fun, engaging and impactful. We first gathered on the perimeter of the rug. I brought with me my bright pink bag adorned with a jeweled peace sign. I began... My name is Stephanie and some students have given me the name Peace Teacher! I LOVE this name because I care so much about feeling peaceful and bringing more peace to our world. And I'll tell you this...YOU have a lot of power to be peaceful and bring more peace to the world...At this ...

Pictures from our last week of school! Field Day! We love Kez!  She was our mystery reader this week. At the Kindergarten program Counting our Tzedakah Alumni first graders come to visit to read their stories to us! Maya's mom came in to read a story for her summer birthday.  Happy summer birthday Maya! We are very proud of our Torahs!