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Lots & Lots of Matzah!
We have been banging hammers and singing Dayenu all week! We love learning about Pesach! We know that King Pharaoh made the Jewish people...
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- Mar 10
- 1 min
Celebrating Purim!
We loved dressing up and celebrating Purim together. We hope you enjoyed the puppet theater and puppets we sent home and enjoy hearing...
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- Mar 3
- 1 min
Chag Purim Sameach!
What a fun week! We have been very busy getting ready for Purim! We know the story, we sing the songs, and we are ready to shake our...
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- Feb 24
- 1 min
Preparing for Purim!
Mishenichnas Adar Marbim B'Simcha: When Adar Begins, Joy Multiplies. We made delicious Hamantashen in honor of the new month, Rosh...
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- Feb 17
- 1 min
Red, White, & Blue!
We focused on Presidents Day this week. We know Presidents are in charge of the United States of America. We said the pledge of...
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- Feb 10
- 2 min
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!
This week we have been focusing on taking care of our world by recycling. We had such a wonderful Tu B'Shvat farmer's market. We learned...
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- Feb 3
- 1 min
Dads' Donuts!
We’ve been very busy this week getting ready for Dads donuts. We’ve been painting and working to make everything special for our Dads...
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- Jan 27
- 1 min
Flowers, Grass, and Trees!
Tu B'Shvat is coming, the birthday of the Trees! We have been learning all about trees and how they grow. We dug in soil, planted beans...
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- Jan 20
- 1 min
Marriages & Twins!
We’ve continued learning about Yitzchak and Rivka's twin boys, Yakov and Eisav. We know they were born at the same time with the same...
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- Jan 13
- 1 min
Rivkah & the Camels!
We learned all about Yitzchak and Rivka. We discussed how in the days of Avraham there was little transportation in comparison to what we...
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- Jan 6
- 1 min
Welcome Back!
We hope you had a wonderful winter break. We have been focusing this week all about Avraham, our first Jewish forefather. We know he was...
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- Dec 22, 2022
- 1 min
Happy Chanukah!
Happy Chanukah! We have been celebrating Chanukah all week together. We’ve peeled and grated potatoes and fried yummy latkes in oil. We...
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- Dec 16, 2022
- 1 min
Dreidel Spinning!
See the Dreidel Spin, Nun, Gimmel, Hay, Shin! We have been spinning dreidels all different ways this week. We put dreidels in paint, we...
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- Dec 9, 2022
- 1 min
Chanukah Preparations!
We are just so excited for Chanukah! We have been busy this week making our wood menorahs. We have been gluing rocks and pebbles and...
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- Dec 2, 2022
- 1 min
Chanukah is in the air!
We have begun singing songs, reading the stories, and talking all about the miracles Hashem did for us on Chanukah. We spoke all about...
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- Nov 23, 2022
- 1 min
Happy Thanksgiving!
We had a short but very thankful week this week. We spoke about all the fun customs we have on Thanksgiving. We know we make and eat a...
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- Nov 18, 2022
- 1 min
Grateful for Generations!
We are enjoying singing about Turkeys and celebrating all things fall and autumn. We have been decorating and playing with leaves and...
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- Nov 11, 2022
- 1 min
Gobble Gobble!
Gobble Gobble Fat turkey! We have been so busy with all things fall and Autumn. We are talking about how thankful we are to Hashem...
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- Nov 4, 2022
- 1 min
Noach and the Ark!
What a beautiful week we had learning all about Noach and the Teva(ark). We explored all things water and rain . We had a blast playing...
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- Oct 28, 2022
- 1 min
7 Days of Creation!
This week we finished our unit on Hashems creation of the world. We discussed day 3 flowers, grass, and trees. We learned about the sun,...
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- Oct 21, 2022
- 1 min
The Beautiful World we Live In!
It was so exciting to be back after a long and joyous Sukkot holiday. We jumped into learning about Creation and how Gd created the...
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- Oct 7, 2022
- 1 min
Sukkot Sameach
We loved learning all about Sukkot and Simchat Torah this week. We know that just sitting inside a sukkah our whole body does a mitzvah!...
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- Sep 30, 2022
- 2 min
Increase in Good Deeds Today and Everyday!
We jumped right into learning all about the upcoming holidays of Yom Kippur. We learned about a scale and understand the concept of...
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- Sep 25, 2022
- 2 min
Happy & Healthy Sweet New Year!
Shana Tova U'metuka! Wishing our BJP family a happy sweet New Year! We are so excited to be taking home all the projects we worked on...
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- Sep 16, 2022
- 2 min
Happy Birthday to the World!
This has been a sweet week here in BJP. We have been discussing and learning about the birthday of the world. We know there are many...
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- Sep 9, 2022
- 1 min
SHOFAR so good!
What a great week we had learning about Shofars. We know we hear the shofar to wake us up to do more Mitzvot. We know the shofar makes 3...
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- Sep 2, 2022
- 1 min
Welcome to BJP 2022/23!
Such an exciting time the beginning of a new school year! Meeting new friends, getting comfortable with new teachers, classrooms, and...
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- Aug 19, 2022
- 1 min
Spread Light!
This week we added lots of color into our classrooms and spread light for all! We can spread light by bringing happiness and joy to...
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- Aug 12, 2022
- 2 min
Spread POSITIVITY!
We definitely spread some positivity throughout the week. We encouraged each other to try and try again even if we do not succeed on the...
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- Aug 5, 2022
- 2 min
Spread Jewish Pride!
Welcome to session 3 of Camp Gan Israel Burbank! On Monday, we observed different types of materials sink and float in sensory bins full...
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- Jul 22, 2022
- 2 min
Spread Bundles of LOVE!
This week, we started with creating rain clouds by applying shaving cream on top of a jar filled with water and adding watercolor paints...
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- Jul 15, 2022
- 3 min
Spread Shabbat All Around!
Another fabulous week of camp went by with so many fun activities. The Theme of our week was spreading Shabbat, which only comes once a...
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- Jul 8, 2022
- 2 min
Spreading Delightful Colors!
We hope everyone had a festive, colorful, and safe 4th of July. The children came back excited and ready to share what they did to...
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- Jul 1, 2022
- 2 min
Spreading Seeds of Kindness!
Our second week of camp went with a “Big Bang.” We splished and splashed and kept our entire body hydrated with an enormous water slide....
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- Jun 24, 2022
- 2 min
Welcome to CAMP GAN ISRAEL 2022!
It has been a fabulous first week of camp. We loved seeing the happy smiling faces when we arrived on Tuesday morning. Everyone was ready...
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- Jun 10, 2022
- 2 min
Each person is a shining STAR. Literally.
It’s hard to believe that we are a minute away from summer and it’s already time to say goodbye to our friends and Morahs whom we loved...
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- Jun 3, 2022
- 1 min
WE are the Guarantors!
Celebrating Shavuot this week and super excited the cheese (I mean Torah:) holiday is here! We learned all about the 10 Commandments and...
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- May 27, 2022
- 2 min
Hashem Gave Us A Present, Do You Know What It Was?
We have been having fun preparing for the upcoming holiday of Shavuot and have been working on creating our very own mini Torah worlds....
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- May 20, 2022
- 2 min
Love Your Friend As Yourself
“Rabbi Akiva says, ‘This is a great principle of the Torah’.” We learned that it is so important to treat each other the way we want to...
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- May 12, 2022
- 2 min
The Twelve Torah Passages
Here are many of Judaism's fundamentals brought forth through verses and sayings of our sages. The Lubavitcher Rebbe taught us these...
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- May 6, 2022
- 1 min
Happy Birthday Israel!
What a fantastic week we had celebrating Israel’s birthday! We pretended to board an El Al flight and go straight to Israel! We each got...
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- Apr 29, 2022
- 1 min
Welcome Back!
We loved hearing about everyone’s fabulous Pesach and Spring break. The children shared stories of spending time with family and enjoying...
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- Apr 8, 2022
- 1 min
Pesach is Almost Here!
What are enjoying Pesach prep, finishing our projects and loved welcoming our BJP families to our Model Seders. We have been singing our...
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- Apr 1, 2022
- 1 min
Let My People Go!
We have been busy this week getting ready for Pesach. We talked so much about the upcoming holiday and how we celebrate it. We spoke...
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- Mar 25, 2022
- 2 min
Lotsa Lotsa Matza.
The time has come and we are learning all about Pesach! The story of our freedom from slavery. The time when we celebrate all the...
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- Mar 17, 2022
- 1 min
Chag Sameach! Happy Purim!
We have had the best week getting ready for Purim and celebrating it in school! We had a blast face painting and face painting on our...
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- Mar 11, 2022
- 1 min
Joy, Cheer and Happiness!
Purim is in the month of Adar and it is the happiest time of year! In BJP, we have been singing Purim songs with puppets, dancing to...
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- Mar 4, 2022
- 1 min
Joy Abounds! It's Finally Adar!
What a joyous week we had. We have been getting in the spirit by creating Shushan Towns in all our classrooms. Coloring in our huge...
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- Feb 25, 2022
- 2 min
Celebrating Presidents & The Land of the Free!
In honor of President's Day this week, we learned all about Presidents, sang the Pledge of Allegiance and discussed our American Flag. We...
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- Feb 18, 2022
- 2 min
Every Child is an Artist...
"The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."- Pablo Picasso We continued exploring different artists and techniques, styles...
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