middle school – Community Service trip to the JF&CS kosher food pantry
To learn about ways we can fight hunger, we are...
- Taking a trip to the JF&CS Kosher Food Pantry and touring their space.
- Meeting a leader at JF&CS and hearing about different initiatives their organization works on.
- Sorting food for the pantry and experiencing giving back to the Atlanta Jewish community first hand.
- Ask your student: What is one thing you learned about JF&CS? What is the purpose of the Kosher food pantry?
5th grade – europe in the 1940's
To learn about what life was like for Jews in 1940's Europe, we are...
- Reviewing what we learned last week about the Great Depression and how Hitler used Jews as a scapegoat for economic challenges.
- Watching a video about "Kristallnacht" – the Night of Broken Glass – to understand how this sentiment escalated into discrimination against Jews.
- Discussing the power of propaganda, and practicing distinguishing between fake headlines and real headlines.
- Looking at Nazi propaganda posters to understand how Hitler convinced the public that the Jews were bad.
- Reading stories and looking at pictures of the Warsaw ghetto, and discussing what it would be like if we had to live like that now.
- Ask your student: How were Jews treated differently during World War II? What is propaganda?
4th grade – immigrating to the united states
To learn about Jewish immigration to the United States in the 1800s, we are...
- Simulating aspects of the Pale of Settlement – like being cramped together – to remind us why Jews would feel a need to leave Europe.
- Reading a passage written by a young girl in the Pale of Settlement about the difficulties she faced trying to come to the United States.
- Simulating the hardships of leaving the Pale of Settlement with an obstacle course full of difficult questions about Judaism, Russia, and America.
- Ask your student: What did it feel like to try to get to America? Do you think life was easy once they got to America? What might have been some things that made life hard here?
3rd grade – avoiding embarrassing others
To learn about the Jewish value of "Halbanat Panim" – avoiding embarrassing someone – we are...
- Doing an activity to demonstrate that you can never really take mean words back – and that they have a big impact on other people.
- Giving our classmates compliments and praises to build them up, instead of tearing them down with negativity and embarrassment.
- Learning a tools for how to avoid embarrassing someone, and becoming "Halbanat Panim Warriors".
- Discussing how to handle times when we feel embarrassed.
- Ask your student: What are ways to handle embarrassed? What can we do to avoid embarrassing other people?
2nd grade – giving tzedakah
To learn about the Jewish value of "Tzedakah" – charity – we are...
- Discussing how it feels to not have as much as the people around us.
- Learning about different ways to give tzedakah – from donating to volunteering to raising awareness.
- Choosing a charitable organization and putting on a skit for our class about what that organization does.
- Decorating tzedakah boxes to collect money for an organization that we want to support.
- Ask your student: Where would you like to give your tzedakah money? What other ways can we help good causes? Parents, please send your child to JKG with tzedakah money!
1st grade – family Matters
To learn about the importance of family in Judaism, we are...
- Interviewing each other about or families – like where our parents are from, how many siblings we have, and things we like to do with our families.
- Reading "The Keeping Quilt" by Patricia Polacco and discussing traditions that have been passed down through generations.
- Making "family quilts" that depict our family members and activities we like to do with them.
- Ask your student: Where there any questions about our family you didn't know the answers to today? What would you like to learn more about?
kindergarten – celebrating tu b'shvat
To learn about the Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shvat – the birthday of trees – we are...
- Creating Tu B'Shvat greeting cards and listening to nature-filled Tu B'Shvat stories.
- Doing yoga exercises as a class, focusing on a tree pose yoga routine.
- Building new things out of recyclable materials and talking about how to do the 3 R's: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle!
- Ask your student: What is the Hebrew word for tree? What are some ways that we can protect the environment? Why is it important to reduce, reuse, and recycle?
- Make sure to RSVP for our Tu B'Shvat tree planting event with Trees Atlanta!
pre-k – celebrating tu b'shvat
To learn about the Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shvat – the birthday of trees – we are...
- Creating Tu B'Shvat greeting cards and listening to nature-filled Tu B'Shvat stories.
- Doing yoga exercises as a class, focusing on a tree pose yoga routine.
- Building new things out of recyclable materials and talking about how to do the 3 R's: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle!
- Ask your student: What is the Hebrew word for tree? What are some ways that we can protect the environment? Why is it important to reduce, reuse, and recycle?
- Make sure to RSVP for our Tu B'Shvat tree planting event with Trees Atlanta!
PRE-school – CELEBRATING TU B'SHVAT
To learn about the Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shvat – the birthday of trees – we are...
- Creating Tu B'Shvat greeting cards and listening to nature-filled Tu B'Shvat stories.
- Doing yoga exercises as a class, focusing on a tree pose yoga routine.
- Building new things out of recyclable materials and talking about how to do the 3 R's: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle!
- Ask your student: What is the Hebrew word for tree? What are some ways that we can protect the environment? Why is it important to reduce, reuse, and recycle?
- Make sure to RSVP for our Tu B'Shvat tree planting event with Trees Atlanta!
