Kesher Program K-6th
KESHER @ JCP
Spend your Monday and Wednesday afternoons at JCP in a warm, loving, and haimish community for children. Learn Jewish History, Explore Jewish Values and Ethics, Celebrate Cycles of Jewish Time.
Click the links below for sample Kesher lesson plans:
Kesher Lesson Plan (Ivrit/Hebrew) – Building Sentences
6th Grade B’nai Mitzvah Curriculum and Information
EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT KESHER
1. What is Kesher
2. Kesher meets twice per week
3. About the Kesher Curriculum
4. Kesher Family Component
5. The Kesher Faculty
6. Application Procedure
7. Program Payment
8. Payment Plans
1. What is Kesher? Kesher is JCP’s new afterschool program that creates a unique community of elementary aged children, who together, explore their Jewish history, culture, and identity. Fall 2009 will accept students entering K-6th. The program will age up with the children through High School, year to year.
2. Kesher meets twice per week on Mondays and Wednesdays throughout the year from mid-September through late May. The afternoon begins at 3 PM with supervised play activities and homework lab. Students arrive as their school day lets out, and the afternoon continues with Hebrew, Judaics & Song, ending at 6 PM.
3. About the Kesher Curriculum . . .students explore Judaism in three year cycles which allows them to revisit their learning areas as they get older and become more sophisticated learners. Each year is focused on two themes (Jewish history and memory, Values and Ethics, Jewish Holidays and Cycles of Time). For those wishing to prepare for their Bar/Bat Mitzvah, participation in Kesher will prepare students for their celebration during the 6th grade year.
4. Kesher Family Component involves parents and children exploring Judaism together throughout the year. Stay tuned for exciting HSP community and family activities.
5. The Kesher faculty are expert Jewish educators who meet daily as a teaching staff to prepare lessons and learn together. Kesher Faculty spend the entire afternoon at JCP preparing for class, refining their group teaching skills, and sharing best teaching practices.
6. Application information: The first step in the enrollment process is completing an Enrollment Agreement Form. Enrollment will be confirmed when you receive a confirmation email. The registration process will be completed when electronic student information forms are filled out. These forms will be emailed to you.
7. The cost of the 2011-2012 Kesher program is $3,500. Tuition is payable in two installments, one in the sum of$2000 due with the enrollment agreement, and one for the remainder of the tuition, due on or before August 1, 2011.
8. For scholarship information, tuition assistance, or payment plans, please contact Sarah Beraha, Assistant Director, Hebrew School Project at sarah@jcpdowntown.org, by June 15, 2011.