JKG Sunday 11.15.20

Second Year B’nei Mitzvah: Doing The Research

Talking about our Personal Interest Project (PIP) topics and what we are looking forward to learning about them. (JKG B’nei Mitzvah students strengthen their Jewish identity by connecting a personal passion – i.e. music, sports, movies, dance, photography – to Judaism. The year-long PIP may include interviews with community leaders, research, and event attendance. Students present their projects at the group B’nei Mitzvah celebration.)
Beginning our research on our PIP topics.
Finding articles and/or videos that relate to our PIP topics, taking notes about them, and discussing them with our peers and teachers.

Participating in our second community service “trip” of the semester by joining a session with Their Story to learn about interviewing our elders.
Creating interview questions to ask our elders over Thanksgiving break.
Making a plan to interview our elderly family or a member of the Atlanta Jewish community over the break so the interviews can be archived at The Breman Museum.
Connecting our learning with Their Story to the Jewish value of L’dor V’dor (from generation to generation).

Learning what a Kibbutz is – a communal living settlement – and discussing what it would be like to live in a place where everything is shared.
Playing the “Pocket Game” to better understand communal sharing. Each student gets something from their room, and then everyone takes a turn coming up for an unconventional use for someone else’s object.
Acting out different types of jobs that we might perform if we lived on a Kibbutz, for example, milking cows, tending crops, and cooking.

Playing group games to find out about which people in our lives passed down knowledge, skills, and traditions to us.
Discussing what a “generation” is, and discussing why passing on knowledge and customs is so important in preserving Judaism and Jewish culture.
Creating L’Dor V’Dor time capsules, and discussing the question “If you could only hand down one single Jewish thing to the next generation, what would it be?” as a way to provoke deep thought on the importance of passing down Jewish tradition.

What is L’dor v’dor?
Why is it important to pass down knowledge and traditions from one generation to the next? How does it help Judaism?

Reading a book about kavod (respect) that teaches us to appreciate the distinct qualities that everyone has.
Discussing what makes us unique individuals and celebrating these differences.
Listening to a fun poem about respecting each other’s differences, and then working off of others ideas in an Improv game called "Yes, And!"

What can we learn about each other by celebrating our differences?
What can you do to show appreciation and respect for other people’s differences?

Discussing times that we have done something we were not supposed to.
Reenacting the story of Adam and Eve through a physical story.
Playing “spot the difference” and completing a crossword puzzle as a class all about Adam & Eve.

Reading the story of Adam and Eve, and talking about rules in our own houses, and what happens when we break them.
Playing a group game to learn the Hebrew words for garden and snake.
Doing a “tree of knowledge” craft to represent the tree that Eve took the apple from.

Jewish Kids GroupsNovember 15, 2020Comment