Kim's Korner

Why Teach Kindness and Inclusion to Young Children

Teaching kindness and inclusion is one of the ways we foster a caring community of learners in our preschool. Kindness involves the recognition that others’ feelings are important, and it requires the ability to take the perspective of others, which is an important developmental skill.

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End of Year

Our four and five year old students chose as the theme for their Honoring Ceremony, “A Time Capsule.” A time capsule is significant in that it marks a particular moment in time, in this case by including descriptions of each of those students at this specific moment – their likes in te…

Two Jews, three Opinions

As we approach the holiday of Passover, many of us may be reminded of the archetypal images of the holiday we experienced growing up. The image of Charleton Heston, arms outspread, staff in hand as the sea begins to split, might be one of such images.  

 

Of all the Biblical personages, …

Clothing Donation

Rabbi Israel Salanter has taught that “(One) should be more concerned with spiritual than material matters, but another person’s material welfare is (one’s) spiritual concern.” Bearing this thought in mind, we recently heard on the radio that both the clothing and food banks at the A…

Children's Art Show

“The true work of art is born from the Artist: a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.” …