Sep 29
This week, all of the amazing community building work the children in Nitzanim v’Anafim (“Buds” for 1st-2nd grades and “Branches” for 3rd grade) have been doing culminated in a fabulously colorful community agreement! Then, children chose out ceramic tiles to create our border. They carefully spread the special tile adhesive (“It’s like spreading nutella on …
Sep 22
The children in Nitzanim v’Anafim (“Buds” for 1st and 2nd grades and “Branches” for 3rd grade) came into this year ready to learn more Hebrew! There is a such a beautiful range of Hebrew knowledge in our kevutzah (group). Children are working on building all sorts of different Hebrew skills – from getting to know …
Sep 14
This week, in Nitzanim v’Anafim (“Buds” for 1st and 2nd grades and “Branches” for 3rd grade) we asked the question: How do we want our community to feel this year? To answer this question, we headed to the studio to get inspired by fabrics of all different textures. We explored the fabrics with our hands …
Sep 08
It’s the first week of sessions and the children in Nitzanim v’Anafim (“Buds” for 1st and 2nd grades and “Branches” for 3rd grade) already know so much about how to be kind and caring towards each other. When we accept and celebrate that everyone in our community has different skills and challenges, we make our …
Sep 05
After a long summer where we missed your children, it was so wonderful to be back with them for an incredible two weeks of August Camp. (Find out more about August Camp and Special Days, our full days of Jewish Enrichment!) While I do love many of the parts of August Camp, going on field …
