Our School is Our Community

This Monday we started the new learning unit: Our Community and Our Neighborhood. The big idea of the unit is the relationships that take place within a peaceful community.
We started with the smallest unit of the community- our class. There are a lot members in our Pre-K community. We spend time together learning, playing and having fun.  Everyone in Pre-K Community is responsible for something that makes Pre-K daily life safe and easy. Every friend in the community has responsibility that covers our basic needs. For example, one of our friends (this week it is Aaron) takes responsibility to set tables for breakfast. So when friends come from the Morning Circle, breakfast is served.
Other Pre-K community members are Morahs. As friends think, Morahs responsibility is to make sure that everyone is safe. Talking about our school community, we realized that there are other small communities within: the Pre-Nusery Community, the Nursery Community, the Kindergarten Community and others. All together we make Mazel Day School Community. We visited the Kindergarten Community to find out how it is different from our community.  The Kindergartners told us that they have a lot of responsibilities, but the most important thing that they try to do is to help one another.

Morah told us that sometimes someone in community takes responsibility to make important decisions for all community members. In our Pre-K community, morahs make important decisions like what teach children, what kind of books bring in the classroom for friends to read. But in a big community like Mazel Day School, a principal makes important decisions. Pre-K friends had an appointment with Morah Chanie, the principle of our school, to find out what are her responsibilities are in our community. When we came in her office, we saw a  great amount of books. Friends were curious to find out why Morah Chanie has so many books. She told us that one of the reasons is that she loves books, other reason is that she wants children to learn how to love books too. Morah Chanie told us that her community responsibilities are to help everyone who comes with a question; to help parents, children and morahs, to lead Rosh Hodesh Rally, and to make sure that everyone learns what they should learn. WOW! It is a lot of responsibilities for one principle.
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