We have been working on Jewish Values for the last year. The children learn about them and live them in their classrooms and the teachers have been documenting about them all year.
It is so wonderful to know that the parents are modeling these values for their kids!
A few weeks ago one of our 2 1/2 year olds was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. As you can imagine all of our families have been so upset about this! Every parents worse night mere!
The room parents in this little guys class organized some classroom projects for this family. The letter from the room parents is printed below because it is so amazing!
I am so proud to be part of such an amazing Kehilah, community, who truly cares about each other!
I took out the family's name for them for confidentiality.
Good Morning!
Katie and I want to thank each and every one of you for your help in creating this for our fellow preschool Family. It came together beautifully. In addition to all the fantastic words of encouragement, hopes, prayers and quotes we all provided; Katie attached a card to the middle of the infinity symbol with the quote by Thomas Jefferson “When you reach the end of your rope, tie another knot in it and hang on”. We weaved a dark gray ribbon into the entire infinity symbol rope; as gray is the color for Brain Cancer Awareness. (I actually have a TON of the gray ribbon left; so if anyone wants to make a simple brain cancer awareness pin to wear, please let me know and I’ll send some ribbon to school for you). Our kids even worked together to decorate the box to give it to them in. I have attached a picture of the finished project.
Here is the note I composed for the family to include in the box:
“WHEN YOU REACH THE END OF YOUR ROPE, TIE ANOTHER KNOT IN IT AND HANG ON”
Thomas Jefferson
This Rope of Encouragement was created for you and your family as a token of love, prayer, and support. We all worked together to make sure that you know that we are ALWAYS here for you and your family during this difficult time.
This Rope of Encouragement symbolizes many different things:
Infinity Shape: There is no end to our love, prayer, and support we will offer to your family.
Words of Encouragement: Always know that we are there to support, encourage, and help in any way that we can…both physically and spiritually. We encourage you and your family to write additional thoughts and tie it to this rope, so that no matter what, you will never have to feel like there isn’t enough to hold on to.
Gray Ribbon border: Gray Ribbon is the symbol for Brain Cancer Awareness.
We are here for you no matter what, and will do whatever we can to help you and your family.
Love, Prayers, Serenity, and Hope for ever and always,
In addition to the rope they also made a fleece blanket for the little boy with a photograph of his class on it. He can be wrapped in the love of his class!
If your eyes are welling up, every time I think of this little guy or what the class has done I have tears streaming down my face.
Please put our little guy in your prayers too.
