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Living Jewishly: Values Everyday
Here’s our recycling bin. Crayon leaf rubbing and team effort on D’Nealian English and block Hebrew. My friend had a brain aneurysm yesterday. Out of nowhere. Her boy called a friend—one of those Go-To...
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Happy Birthday to the Trees, Goodbye to the Naps
Tu B’Shevat is tomorrow: the Fifteenth of the month of Shevat.1 It is one of the harder Jewish holidays to pronounce, even for grown-ups. The Toddler blurbles something like “Shot.” Thanks to the PJ...
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Instant (free) Replacement Shades for Multi-Head Lamp, DIY
A post about repurposed soup containers as lampshades is not my usual fare. Let’s pretend it is not glaringly unlike the Earnest Sunday School Teacher posts adjacent. And let’s remember that...
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Marker Mitzvah Project: Converting Crayola
Here’s an easy mitzvah project I started with our 3rd graders, and it benefits the entire school. The mitzvah is B’al Tashcheet—”do not destroy”—and what we are trying to “not destroy” is the Earth:...
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Marker Mitzvah: Making Liquid Watercolors
In conjunction with our big, ongoing Marker Mitzvah program—where we collect the school’s dead markers and ship them for conversion into diesel fuel—we keep some dry markers for use in the art room....
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