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Sunday Curriculum Overview for Pre - 5th Grades
Sunday Curriculum Overview for Pre - 5th grades
As an experiential program, we strive to share an experience with our students that feels whole, connected and meaningful. Each week, our preschool - 5th grade classes focus as a community on a Jewish value, or middah, through the Four Worlds model. The Four Worlds model connects us through body, mind, heart and soul. Each week, our educators work in close connection with Brooke, our Director, to create an enriching morning of learning. While each class focuses on the same value, the learning activities and curricula is designed to provide meaning, challenge and a positive learning opportunity for each class/grade of students.
Also, for holidays, we share a camp-day model of learning that invites students to delve into the meanings of holidays by visiting stations designed to help them both own their learning experience and connect to different teachers, community mentors and Nevei leaders.
Why experiential learning? Our director, Brooke, is currently working towards her Masters in Jewish Experiential Education as a Hebrew College Fellow. Experiential learning is not only our passion but closely connected to Renewal thought and philosophy.
Our middot focuses for the year + special holiday camp day learning:
September
22 - First Day, "Rosh Hashana and a new year of Yedidut, friendship."
October
6 - "Yom Kippur and the values of mistakes and forgiveness"
20 - Sukkot Camp Day & Hoshana Rabah
27 - "Noach; Tza'ar Ba'alei Chayim means kindness to living things"
November
3 - “Lech Lecha, Derech Eretz means finding my way”
10 - “Vayeira; Hachnasat Orchim means welcoming guests”
17- "Chayei Sarah; Gemilut Hasadim means acts of kindness"
December
8 - "Vayishlach; Emet means being truthful"
15 - Hanukkah Camp Day
January
12 - “Shemot; Ani means I”
28 - "Bo; Mishpacha means family"
February
2 - “Beshlalach; Ometz Lev means courage of the heart”
9 - “Honoring Tu B'Shevat; Baal Taschit means reducing waste"
23 - “Teruma; Shalom Bayit means peace in the home”
March
1 - “Tetzavah; Kehilla Kedoshah means holy community"
8 - Purim Camp Day
15 - "Vayakhel-Pekudei; Nedivut means giving generously"
April
5 - Pesach Camp Day
19 - "Tazria Metzora; B'tselem Elohim means creating with our words"
28 - Celebrating Our Year Together!
Wed, April 8 2020
14 Nisan 5780
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Thursday ,
AprApril 9 , 2020ONLINE: Community Seder
Thursday, Apr 9th 6:00p to 9:30p
Join us for our very first online community seder! -
Friday ,
AprApril 10 , 2020ONLINE: Family Shabbat Circle
Friday, Apr 10th 6:00p to 6:30p
We welcome families and friends to join us for Shabbat songs and blessings tonight from 6-6:30pm on Zoom. Looking forward to “seeing” you there! Please register to get the Zoom link -
Monday ,
AprApril 13 , 2020ONLINE: Counting the Omer: A Journey Towards Wholeness through Mussar with Maggid Charna
Monday, Apr 13th 6:30p to 8:15p
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Friday ,
AprApril 17 , 2020ONLINE: Bubble Shabbat
Friday, Apr 17th 5:00p to 6:15p
Bubble Shabbat is a Friday night service designed to welcome Shabbat with young children and their families. With bubbles, prayers, songs and community, we light candles together, welcome our cute monster guests and listen to a Shabbat story. A vegetarian potluck follows and it’s a great time to connect. This Shabbat is designed for children ages 0 - 9 years and their families, but all are welcome. Bubble Shabbat is one Friday per month from 5-5:30pm in our sanctuary children’s loft. Friends are welcome! -
Monday ,
AprApril 20 , 2020ONLINE: Counting the Omer: A Journey Towards Wholeness through Mussar with Maggid Charna
Monday, Apr 20th 6:30p to 8:15p
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Thursday ,
AprApril 23 , 2020ONLINE: Psalms Brown Bag Series with Rabbi Diane Tiferet Lakein
Thursday, Apr 23rd 12:00p to 1:00p
Ivdu et Hashem b’Simcha – Let us serve YHVH with joy! (Psalm 100: 2) Psalms Brown Bag Series with Rabbi Diane Tiferet Lakein: Nevei Kodesh, Thursdays 12 – 1 pm March 19, April 2, 16, 30 $10 Nevei Kodesh members/$12 guests This third lunchtime brown bag series will explore four new psalms as a way into both a deeper understanding of the Jewish traditional texts and a deeper appreciation of our own souls’ yearnings. Especially in times of increased anxiety and stress, psalms can provide us with a vehicle both for expressing our dismay and fear, and also for reconnecting us with a sense of possibility and Presence. We will begin our exploration this spring with Psalm 16, a psalm “expressing the quiet joy one can experience when one ‘takes refuge’ in God” (R Richard Levy). Next, we will turn our attention to two psalms which are used in the traditional Saturday morning liturgy – Psalm 34, which invites us to “taste and see that YaH is good” and Psalm 90, which acknowledges how fleeting the lifespan of humans is, compared to God’s eternity, and how crucial it is to treasure hayom/this day. We will end on a high note, with Psalm 126, which celebrates our coming home to the land, and expresses a longing for “homecoming to a state of well-being, at-homeness with both our Earth and our God” (R Miryam Glazer). Newcomers are welcome at any point!* It will be possible to attend the class by means of a virtual classroom with Zoom for those who pre-register online. You will receive the Zoom link upon registration. *No Hebrew is required. The texts will be provided both in Hebrew and in traditional and alternative English translations, including those of Rebbe Zalman himself. -
Friday ,
AprApril 24 , 2020ONLINE: Family Shabbat Circle
Friday, Apr 24th 6:00p to 6:30p
We welcome families and friends to join us for Shabbat songs and blessings tonight from 6-6:30pm on Zoom. Looking forward to “seeing” you there! Please register to get the Zoom link -
Saturday ,
AprApril 25 , 2020ONLINE: 4 Worlds Meditation and Gentle Movement for anyBODY- with Tracy Patch
Shabbat, Apr 25th 10:30a to 12:00p
Please join me for a relaxing and rejuvenating Four Worlds Shabbat. We will use a combination of breathing, Jewish meditation, gentle movement for anyBODY. Please arrive at 10:20. Please contact Tracy Directly for the Zoom link Email her at: tracypatch@gmail.com -
Monday ,
AprApril 27 , 2020ONLINE: Counting the Omer: A Journey Towards Wholeness through Mussar with Maggid Charna
Monday, Apr 27th 6:30p to 8:15p
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Thursday ,
AprApril 30 , 2020ONLINE: Psalms Brown Bag Series with Rabbi Diane Tiferet Lakein
Thursday, Apr 30th 12:00p to 1:00p
Ivdu et Hashem b’Simcha – Let us serve YHVH with joy! (Psalm 100: 2) Psalms Brown Bag Series with Rabbi Diane Tiferet Lakein: Nevei Kodesh, Thursdays 12 – 1 pm March 19, April 2, 16, 30 $10 Nevei Kodesh members/$12 guests This third lunchtime brown bag series will explore four new psalms as a way into both a deeper understanding of the Jewish traditional texts and a deeper appreciation of our own souls’ yearnings. Especially in times of increased anxiety and stress, psalms can provide us with a vehicle both for expressing our dismay and fear, and also for reconnecting us with a sense of possibility and Presence. We will begin our exploration this spring with Psalm 16, a psalm “expressing the quiet joy one can experience when one ‘takes refuge’ in God” (R Richard Levy). Next, we will turn our attention to two psalms which are used in the traditional Saturday morning liturgy – Psalm 34, which invites us to “taste and see that YaH is good” and Psalm 90, which acknowledges how fleeting the lifespan of humans is, compared to God’s eternity, and how crucial it is to treasure hayom/this day. We will end on a high note, with Psalm 126, which celebrates our coming home to the land, and expresses a longing for “homecoming to a state of well-being, at-homeness with both our Earth and our God” (R Miryam Glazer). Newcomers are welcome at any point!* It will be possible to attend the class by means of a virtual classroom with Zoom for those who pre-register online. You will receive the Zoom link upon registration. *No Hebrew is required. The texts will be provided both in Hebrew and in traditional and alternative English translations, including those of Rebbe Zalman himself.