Building a Story

This week at Havurah we discussed the word COMMUNITY to understand that we ourselves are a TEAM that listens, learns, and experiences with one another.

We went on an adventure to the staircase to notice the artistic space we inhabit -- the expressions of community that line our every wall.

We imagined what it means to be the creator of ones own story.

We discussed what it takes to build an imagined story - a title, an author, a collection of characters, and an adventure! We considered the difference between stories that are make-believe and stories that are real and true!


This conversation led into a group project that we will continue throughout the year -- each student created the title page for her/his own Aleph-Bet book. We will fill it to the brim as we learn the Jewish letters and the most exciting and relevant Hebrew words associated with these letters.

Aleph א for Aaretz ארץ --> Land
Bet ב for Bayit בית --> Home
Gimel ג for Glidah גלידה and Goi גוי --> Ice Cream and Nation (ice-cream eaters that we are)





In ceramics we learned how to SCORE and how to bind pieces of clay together

We talked about action words -- what we DO to the clay -- roll, twist, flatten, and even "leave it as is"

Later we sang with Paul -- he even introduced the Aleph-Bet song to help us remember our letters.

We built on the themes we discussed last week and solidified both our schedule and our group dynamic; we had a blast all along!