2nd Grade: K-2 Shabbat Recap
2nd Grade: K-2 Shabbat Recap
This week, we have a special blog all about our K-2 Family Kabbalat Shabbat B’Yachad (KSBY).
We had so much fun at the event, and I was so happy to see so many 2nd graders and their families at the event. For a quick recap, We had a beautiful service led by Rabbi Epstein and Cantor Breitzer. We are so grateful to have such amazing clergy who really inspire our students to connect with being Jewish. Then, we had a pasta dinner where parents got to shmooze and students got to play and enjoy each other’s company in a less structured setting. We finished the night with 3 fun crafts including Shabbat prayer placemats, tzedakah boxes and cell phone Shabbat sleeping bags. Students got to create and take home three awesome Shabbat tools to celebrate at home. We hope you had fun and are so excited to keep learning about Shabbat during Yachad.
While it’s a bit away, we are excited to announce Shabbat in the Home! Each grade will have a couple of Friday evenings where families can host each other for Shabbat dinner! This will be a wonderful way for students and parents to get to know each other outside of the walls of Yachad and to share in the joy of Shabbat together at home.
To help plan for these Friday evenings, please take 2 minutes to fill out the survey below, which will help us coordinate these gatherings.
Click here to fill out the Second Grade Shabbat in the Home survey
While Second Grade Shabbat in the Home is in the winter, we hope that the crafts children made at the K-2 KSBY (Shabbat placemats, tzedakah boxes, technology sleeping bags etc.) can already help to bring joy and rest to your family during Shabbat!
Please know that Yachad leadership is here to help you think through planning a Shabbat dinner, whether this is your first time or your tenth!
Hebrew Through Movement
2nd graders were introduced to different body parts – head, eyes, mouth, nose, ears, hands, belly and legs.
Shabbat Family Program
This week we explored achrayut/responsibility for children and for parents. Both students and parents examined some of the same texts through different means! For example, in the Talmud we find a list of responsibilities a parent has toward a child. While parents debated items on the list and created their updated , personalized versions, students created their own list of responsibilities toward a parent. After discussing parents’ responsibilities toward children, the sharing of responsibilities between parents and teachers toward children and children’s responsibilities toward parents, everyone came together to share some of their learning!