Aliza Geller

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Name: Aliza Geller
Date registered: September 14, 2016

Latest posts

Cultivating Leadership Skills with Young Children — February 27, 2020
Shifts in Intensity — February 7, 2020
Introducing Eliyahu HaNavi — January 31, 2020
Partner Pictures — January 24, 2020
Building Something Together — January 17, 2020

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Feb 27

Cultivating Leadership Skills with Young Children

Categories:

Eliyahu HaNavi, Uncategorized

by Aliza Geller

In Shorashim (‘roots’ for nursery) and Shteelim (‘saplings’ for Kindergarten), we have been working with a paradigm of leadership that connects to skills that the children are already starting to develop. That a leader is someone who works to make the would bette, using listening, partnership, courage and persistence. One exploration that the children have …

Tags: bravery, community building, Leadership, listening, partnership, persistance, Shorashim 5780, Shteelim 5780

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Feb 07

Shifts in Intensity

Categories:

Eliyahu HaNavi

by Aliza Geller

This week in Shorashim (‘roots’ for nursery) and Shteelim (‘saplings’ for Kindergarten), we have been working on our understanding of an intense experience that Eliyahu HaNavi has in our text. 11 [Adonai] said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before Adonai.”V’hineh, Adonai passed by!A great and powerful wind ripped through the mountain, shattering rocks …

Tags: dance, painting, scarf dancing, Shorashim 5780, Shteelim 5780

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Jan 31

Introducing Eliyahu HaNavi

Categories:

Eliyahu HaNavi

by Aliza Geller

This week in Shorashim (‘roots’ for nursery) and Shteelim (‘saplings’ for Kindergarten), we started to hear and talk about the character, Eliyahu HaNavi. We heard and introduction to the text, which comes from I Kings, chapter 19: Eliyahu Hanavi was a leader. He was trying to make peace between people. (Eliyahu HaNavi was trying to …

Tags: dramatic play, Feelings, Shorashim 5780, Shteelim 5780

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Jan 17

Building Something Together

Categories:

Eliyahu HaNavi

by Aliza Geller

This week in Shorashim (‘roots’ for nursery) and Shteelim (‘saplings’ for Kindergarten), we started our new theme, Eliyahu HaNavi. Our focus has been on people/ leaders working to make the world a better place. Many of our explorations involve listening and partnership, two skills/ capacities a person might need when working to make the world …

Tags: building, collaboration, Collaborative Play, community building, listening, partnership

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Jan 10

Ivrit (Hebrew) Joy

Categories:

Eliyahu HaNavi

by Aliza Geller

For the week following Winter Break, we shift our focus to Ivrit (Hebrew), while the educators prepare for our winter theme. I want to bring forward the joy that the children of Shorashim (‘roots’ for nursery) and Shteelim (‘saplings’ for Kindergarten) were expressing while working on some of our Ivrit (Hebrew) skills and vocabulary. The …

Tags: Ivrit, Shorashim 5780, Shteelim 5780

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Dec 13

Chanukah Play is Underway

Categories:

Chanukah

by Aliza Geller

Chanukah play is underway in Shorashim (‘roots’ for nursery) and Shteelim (‘saplings’ for Kindergarten)! Our preparations for Chanukah , the children get to hear some favorite chanukah folktales and play chanukah in our house area, playing סְבִיבוֹן (sevivon- dreidel), making latkes to eat, lighting the נֵרוֹת (neyrot -candles) in our חֲנֻכִּיָה (chanukiya- a menorah that …

Tags: Collaborative Play, discussion, dramatic play, Shorashim 5780, Shteelim 5780

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Nov 21

Children’s Text Theater/ What helps Children Internalize Text?

Categories:

Adam v'Adamah

by Aliza Geller

This week in Shorashim (‘roots’ for nursery) and Shteelim (‘saplings’ for Kindergarten) one area of exploration we have been doing, is acting out the text in our “Children’s Text Theater”. When we do this kind of exploration, there are a number of things that children are working that are included in learning the text and …

Tags: Collaborative Play, Independent Learning, interpretation, taking turns

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Oct 31

Collaboration makes it all Possible

Categories:

Adam v'Adamah

by Aliza Geller

There has been quite a bit of excitement in Shorashim (‘roots’ for nursery) and Shteelim (‘saplings’ for Kindergarten) as we have started our theme, Adam v’Admah (using Chapters 1-3 of the book of Genesis from the Torah). One thing to know about this group of children is that they continue to find ways to collaborate …

Tags: collaboration, Collaborative Play, Shorashim 5780, Shteelim 5780

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Sep 27

Snapshots of a Rosh Hashanah Story

Categories:

Adam v'Adamah, Rosh Hashanah

by Aliza Geller

Did you know that the children in Shorashim (‘Roots’ for nursery) and Shteelim (‘Saplings’ for Kindergarten) are storytellers and editors? This week at כיבוד (kibud–snack), we looked at photos of the ways we have played Rosh Hashanah and wrote a story to go with the photos. We also went through a process to edit the …

Tags: collaboration, Editing, storytelling

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