By Sara Berlin, LMSW School Social Worker (Cherry Lane) Fear and anxiety are a normal and expected part of being a kid: Hiding behind a caregiver when meeting a new person for the first time. Asking for one more story or to be tucked in one more time, as to avoid going to bed on …
Picture this – a group of individuals meets each week to discuss the global economy, personal finance and investment strategy. No, it’s not a corporate finance team at Goldman Sachs, but rather a group of our 7th-8th grade students every Wednesday during Middle School Club Hour. Led by Rabbi Simon Basalely as their faculty advisor, …
By Ofier Sigal, General Studies Principal There is a story of a bus of more than 30 shochets going upstate New York for kosher slaughter on a farm. They would load a bus in central Brooklyn and went twice weekly. The shochets would cut and slice all day long. The men cleaned up and started …
Brought to you by the Pre-K Judaic Studies Team: Morot: Rebeka Ebrahimi, Gali Naftali and Connie Reichman Our Pre-K students are the youngest in the building here at Cherry Lane and our program balances a mix of play and the academics that will prepare them for the years ahead. Our goal is to use interactive …
What if you could learn 5000 years of contextualized Jewish History in a thought provoking and memorable way in three class periods? It’s something we’re working on here at NSHA as we welcomed back Mr. Ronnie Halibard and his Jewish History in a Flash program this week. The program was custom made for NSHA and …
By Ofier Sigal, General Studies Principal As a child of the 1980s, I, along with millions of other kids, was enthralled with video games. Game consoles like Atari, Sega, Nintendo all held us hostage to our televisions while our parents wanted us to spend more time being more “productive.” Now that gaming is increasingly untethered from …
By Morah Carrie Silberman, Director of Library Studies Research shows that students learn more when teachers and their school librarian collaborate. At NSHA our library program is fully integrated into our educational program so that I partner with students and teachers across all the Cherry Lane grades. When library skills are fully integrated with our …
By Mrs. Kim Bliss, English Studies Faculty Member and Dr. Alla Zhelinsky-Denyer, School Psychologist Grades 6-8 R.J. Palacio’s novel, Wonder, has inspired children and adults in what can be referred to as a global phenomenon. In the novel, we meet August Pullman, a fifth grade boy with a medical condition that has resulted in him …
What’s on your Bookshelf – The Aharon Family Or perhaps, more appropriately, what’s NOT on the Aharon bookshelf? To call the members of the Aharon family avid readers might be the understatement of the century. Read below about what Jack (KA), Nili (Grade 3), Mimi (Grade 5), Catie (Grade 6), Marcy (Grownup) and even their …
What is Jewish History in a Flash? International educator Ronnie Halibard, director of Jewish History in a Flash, describes the impetus for his groundbreaking workshop which our Middle School students are engaged in over three days this week: “I realized that kids and adults don’t have a grasp of the context of Jewish history – …
By Ms. Lisa Guggenheimer Our 2018 Names, Not Numbers work is underway here at NSHA. On Tuesday, October 24th, our 8th Grade Students who will be creating this year’s Names, Not Numbers oral history of the Shoah film attended a seminar at The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. The seminar focused on …
Remarks from Ms. Lisa Guggenheimer, faculty advisor for Names, Not Numbers at NSHA, given at the film’s premiere on June 15, 2017. Eli Weisel stated, “For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories.” …
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