| Mark your Calendars for Hanukkah Tzedakah Night & Performance |
Mark your calendars for the annual Hanukkah Tzedakah Night event, Dec. 11, 3:30-5:30 pm at the Goodman Jewish Community Campus in Verona.
This community-wide event produced by the Jewish Federation of Madison will feature a singalong led by Music Together teacher Aaron Johnson and performances by Yonim Israeli dancers, as well as students from Gan HaYeled, Chug Ivrit and the Madison Jewish Community Day School.
Following the performances, Hannukah and/or tzedakah activities organized by groups from around the Jewish community will begin.
The MJCDS community will be running a booth where we will collect gently used children's books that will be donated to the Road Home, and where we will also create festive bookmarks to take home.
Please bring gently used books (there is a special need for board books if you have them), and sign up to staff the booth by contacting Rabbi Ben-Gideon.
The Family Education Committee will be collecting money for The Road Home and the Camp Shalom Scholarship Fund and requests donations of $5 per family.
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From Columbus to Thanksgiving
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 Social Studies excitement led up to Thanksgiving. Students in first and second grades concluded studies about people first coming to the Americas. The kindergarten and 1/ 2 classes both learned about the Wampanoags and the Pilgrims. All of the students in these classes worked collaboratively in order to put on a play entitled, A Native American Welcome, for the 3/4 class.
The first and second grade students expanded their vocabulary and continued their work on main ideas and details as they read and learned about history. They learned about the origins of the Thanksgiving holiday. The primary focus for the kindergartners was on the differences between life then and life as they know it today, how these people had to work together, and how we celebrate this American holiday today.
-Jodi Harris
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K-2 students learn about rhythms and rest notes in music class.
On our annual tzedakah trip to Trader Joe's before Thanksgiving, students pose in the dry goods aisle, where they spent a lot of time! Students thoughtfully selected products to donate to the needy and used math skills to add up the prices to make sure they stayed within their allotted budget. Many thanks to MJCDS families for donating the funds and to Jewish Social Services, which is making sure the groceries get to those who need them.
Third and fourth grade students also staged a Thanksgiving play, performing for the K-2 students.
Their play examined early explorers and their interactions with American Indians. At left, an explorer and an Indian chief confer in their "canoe."
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