Daily Schedule 7:30 am Optional “Early Arrival” available with prior reservations. Supervised free play time. 9:30 am The school day officially begins. Teachers welcome children into their classrooms and help them follow their established routine to prepare for the day. Teachers then encourage children to engage in a variety of small group activities with peers. […]
TBANS Parent Handbook Table of Contents Introduction: Mission, Philosophy, History, Curriculum Contact Information Daily Schedule Jewish Practices Inclusion Admissions Payment Policies and Scholarships Licensing Class Placement Policy Clothing Food Policy Birthday Celebrations Health Policy Screen Time Policy Photography Parking and carpooling Playground, Discovery Room, Ride Room Toileting Discipline Policy Inclement Weather Policy Parent Involvement Communications […]
VaYechi – 5779 Genesis 47:28 – 50:26 This week the book of Genesis comes to its end, and along with it the story of the mamas and the papas (the matriarchs and patriarchs). VaYechi is perhaps one of the most intimate and difficult portions in Genesis because the text places us right in the room […]
I’d like for us to start a new Chanukah tradition. Chanukah indoor sukkot. Look at the pictures. Aren’t they beautiful? Some of these are actual Orthodox Sukkot (the holiday) sukkot and the one with the Chanukkiah is the one we created at the synagogue last year for my Live and Learn class: Chanukah – A […]
VaYigash – 5779 Genesis 44:18 – 47:27 Until VaYigash, our family story has been both sublime and dysfunctional. The sublime we know well: the covenantal relationship established between Abraham and God, and the introduction of an entirely new way of life to the world through the realization of that covenant, have inspired generations of our […]
Miketz – 5779 Genesis 41:1 – 44:17 Joseph was a dreamer, who could read the future in his own dreams and the dreams of others. As a youth he dreamed that his family would one day bow down to him. In the dungeon he interpreted the dreams of Pharaoh’s cup bearer and baker, predicting that […]
