Today at our staff meeting 2 pairs of teachers presented their classroom experiences with lessons on Jewish Values.
The first to present was the pair of teachers who have the young three year olds. They have been talking to the children about Bikur Cholim (Visiting the sick) and they told the kids about a teacher who had fractured a bone in her foot and is in a wheel chair. They talked about what you can say to someone who has hurt themself or is sick and then they brought this teacher flowers and told her to feel better quickly and other beautiful phrases they have learned. It was an amazing experience to watch these little ones really care about a teacher that they don't know.
The older three year olds, most are 4 or turning four soon were talking about Sayver Panim Yafot, having a cheerful attitude. They made clown feet to walk in the ways of God and they made fun silly ties to be happy and funny and they made great hats and inside the hat was the following: Let you clown feet carry you quickly to greet others
Have a good heart and always be kind
Wear a smile on your face and keep a silly red nose on so you can make others laugh
Put your hat on your head and make sure you use your heard (your brains) to be wise and to study Torah.
(Shhhh!-Keep these secrets under your hat!)
Clearly the kids cannot read this but the parents can and it reinforces what the kids have learned while teaching the parents the values we are teaching their kids. This little poem was written by Susie Blackman, the teacher in this class.