Project Based Learning at Religious School!
Kitah Alef/1st Grade
Shabbat Box and Time Travel Tallit
Kitah Alef spends the year learning about Jewish time. They used their Time Travel Tallit to travel the Jewish world throughout the ages to learn about Jewish holiday and cultural traditions.
They also created a Shabbat Box they got to bring home once during the school year. Click here to see their Shabbat Box reflections.
Kitah Bet/2nd Grade
Milon (Dictionary)
Milon is a dictionary. Our Milon is much more! All year, we grappled with big Jewish questions and big Jewish words in our exploration of Being a Jew, Being a Mensch. We defined words communally in our own words, with our whole bodies, and with our art. We found that many of these words interacted with each other; as we learned new words, we returned to older ones with new ideas. We invite you to discuss, question, and explore through and beyond our selections” Andrea Kamens, Kitah Bet Teacher. Download a PDF of the 5784 Kitah Bet Milon here.
Jewish Values Fabric Mural
Puppies, peace, sunsets, hearts, and Hebrew are being stitched together in Kitah Bet (second grade)! Teacher Andrea Kamens is a Senior Educator Leadership Fellow (SELF cohort 3) this year through the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. For her fellowship project, she's been scaffolding skills on studying together as chevruta, traditional Jewish learning partners, through word games, interview questions, and collaborative art.
Working in pairs, children created panels for a fabric mural on the word Olam, which they will tell you means the universe/expanse of time and space, and is prominent in prayers for boundless love. They co-created over weeks with each other, their madrichimot, and a professional mural artist, Jennifer Bloom, via Zoom from Radici Studios in California. Volunteers from the congregation have started the sewing process so that the complete work can hang proudly at the synagogue for years to come.
Kitah Hey/5th Grade
Pesach Haggadah
Kitah Hey studied the book of Exodus and explored the story and Passover through the lens of storytelling. Check out their very own Kitah Hey Haggadah that they used for their end of year chocolate seder.
Kitah Vav/6th Grade
All-Ages Siddur Project
Our Kitah Vav (6th Grade) class created the artwork for a new All-Ages Erev Shabbat siddur. Click the "slideshow" button below to learn about their process creating the siddur. View the finished siddur here, and join us at our monthly All-Ages Erev Shabbat to experience it yourself! If you would like to dedicate a siddur in someone's honor or memory and contribute to the printing of the new siddurm, please fill out this form.