We are a couple of pre-K teachers, working in a small program, committed to providing the best pre-K education to Alaska's kids.
Look here regularly for notes on our experiences as parents (we have older kids now) and as teachers and administrators at the Joy Greisen Jewish Education Center. We're a part of Congregation Beth Sholom, the oldest synagogue in Alaska - 50 years old in 2008!
A little about our program: We were founded about 20 years ago and we currently use a play-based emergent curriculum. This means we base our lessons and activities around what the kids are interested in. Sometimes it's marshmallows and sometimes it's dinosaurs - it just depends.
About 10% of the kids in our program are Jewish and the others come from a variety of backgrounds, both religious and secular. We have a very low staff turnover and promote a family-type atmosphere in everything we do.
We serve kids and their families from age 6 months to 5 years in our full time program and 5 to 16 year-0lds in our afterschool art program.
Check out www.frozenchosen.org for more information about our congregation and our program.
Future blog posts will include nutrition for picky eaters, discipline for kids and parents, toilet training, how to get kids dressed for winter playtime outdoors before they fall asleep, kindergarten readiness and anything else people want to know.
Have a great Thanksgiving!
- Miss Tara and Miss Leah
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
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