mlipkowitz

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Name: Michael Lipkowitz
Date registered: October 31, 2011
Jabber / Google Talk: jewishenrichment

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Exploring Shapes of Letters — June 7, 2012
Corn Flour Makes Cornbread – Shavuot, Part 2 — June 1, 2012
Milling Grain into Flour — May 24, 2012
Chessed Cards — May 17, 2012
Harvesting like in the Book of Ruth — May 17, 2012

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Jun 07

Exploring Shapes of Letters

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There are lots of ways to explore the shapes of different Hebrew letters. The child below, through one-on-one interaction with his teacher two weeks ago, learned how to stencil in the letters of his name. The teacher helped him put the letters in order by moving the stencil for him. One week letter, the boy …

Tags: experiential learning, exploration, hebrew letters, Shorashim

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Jun 01

Corn Flour Makes Cornbread – Shavuot, Part 2

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Chagim (Jewish Holidays), Tzedakah VaChessed

by mlipkowitz

Last week, we learned about how the story of Ruth that we read on Shavuot is about chessed — Ruth does chessed for Naomi by gathering barley for her. To act this out, we gathered our own “pretend” grain and ground it using a steel mill into coarse flour. This week we capped off the …

Tags: connection, cooperative learning, experiential learning, exploration, Food, friendship, Shavuot, Shorashim

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May 24

Milling Grain into Flour

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Chagim (Jewish Holidays), Tzedakah VaChessed

by mlipkowitz

This week we continued our Shavuot learning by asking the question: what exactly is a “harvest”? First, we read the wonderful book “Pancakes, Pancakes!” by Eric Carle, which tells the story of all the work required to make a single pancake… (milking the cow, churning the butter, feeding the chicken so it lays an egg…) …

Tags: cooperative learning, experiential learning, exploration, Food, learning environment, Nitzanim, Shavuot, Shorashim

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May 17

Chessed Cards

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Tzedakah VaChessed

by mlipkowitz

In Shorashim we have begun making “chessed cards”. In order to do this, the kids pick a shape, color it, and send it on a pretend “postcard” into their friend’s mailbox in Shorashim. Instead of a normal stamp, the kids get to stamp the first letter of their Hebrew name. Not only is it a …

Tags: chessed, child-initiated, experiential learning, friendship, Shorashim, Tzedakah VaChessed

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May 17

Harvesting like in the Book of Ruth

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Tzedakah VaChessed

by mlipkowitz

Shavuot is coming! On Shavuot, we read the Book of Ruth. In Shorashim, we have been reading a Shorashim-appropriate version of the story, with a focus through the lens of Tzedakah vaChessed. For example: “Ruth shows so much chessed when she picks up all the leftover barley for Naomi,” and, “Boaz does chessed when he asks …

Tags: experiential learning, imagination play, learning environment, Shavuot, Shorashim, Torah, Tzedakah VaChessed

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May 10

The Process behind the Product: Making Sukkot in Yetzirah

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Tzedakah VaChessed

by mlipkowitz

For our Sukkot Reflection this week, we made Sukkot patches in Yetzirah. After we finished, we used Popsicle sticks and tape to make our own sukkot (an individual shelter is called a sukkah; plural, is sukkot). The only prompt the children were given for this exercise was: “Build your own sukkah!” You may have seen …

Tags: child-initiated, cooperative learning, experiential learning, exploration, Shorashim, Sukkot, yetzirah

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May 02

Chessed Jars in Shorashim: Learning Empathy

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Tzedakah VaChessed

by mlipkowitz

This week in Shorashim we added “Chessed Jars”. With a huge pile of tzedakah, the Shorashimers each had a chance to pick which Chessed Jar to put their coins in. Each jar had a different picture on it representing a different act of Chessed: -giving food to people who need food -giving toys to kids …

Tags: chessed, child-initiated, cooperative learning, Jews around the World, learning environment, play, Shorashim, Tzedakah VaChessed

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Apr 26

Tzedakah Play: Coins and Shapes

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Tzedakah VaChessed

by mlipkowitz

This week in Shorashim we learned about Tzedakah by playing with it. We have our own REAL tzedakah that we have been playing with, putting in our Tzedakah jar, and counting… not-so-secretly thanks to YOUR help, the parents, for reminding your kids to collect money and bring it back to Shorashim. =) We have also …

Tags: experiential learning, exploration, Hebrew, hebrew letters, learning environment, Shorashim, Tzedakah VaChessed

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Apr 18

Changes in Shorashim for Tzedakah vaChessed

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Tzedakah VaChessed

by mlipkowitz

There have been some changes to our learning environment in Beit Shorashim. We have added a Bikur Cholim area (taking care of the sick), and constructed Ohel Avraham v’Sarah (Tent of Avraham and Sarah) which is modeled after the Torah story of Genesis 18:1-8. In this story, Avraham and Sarah welcome passing visitors as guests …

Tags: beit shorashim, chessed, experiential learning, exploration, Hebrew, hebrew letters, imagination play, learning environment, play, Shorashim, Torah, Tzedakah VaChessed

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Apr 18

Exploring the Letter צ

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Tzedakah VaChessed

by mlipkowitz

This week in Shorashim we learned the first letter of the word tzedakah: צ (tzadee) We’re cutting out tzedakah coins and dollars that have the letters of the word tzedakah on them. I’m using wikki stix to make the shapes of the letters! I decided on my own that I wanted to trace over the …

Tags: child-initiated, experiential learning, hebrew letters, learning environment, Shorashim, Tzedakah VaChessed, yetzirah

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Exploring Shapes of Letters

Corn Flour Makes Cornbread – Shavuot, Part 2

Milling Grain into Flour

Chessed Cards

Harvesting like in the Book of Ruth

The Process behind the Product: Making Sukkot in Yetzirah

Chessed Jars in Shorashim: Learning Empathy

Tzedakah Play: Coins and Shapes

Changes in Shorashim for Tzedakah vaChessed

Exploring the Letter צ

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