All About Me

Understanding how we are alike and different is essential to  development of children's intellectual and emotional abilities. The unit "All About Me" will help friends to learn more about themselves, their place in the world, and will give opportunities to explore many similarities and differences among themselves.

What makes us alike? We are all people. We are Jewish people. Every Jew is born with a special gift from Hashem- a Neshama, that makes us alike. But everyone has own neshama. It makes us different. What does mean "different"? There are some thoughts that friends shared. 

Different means to switch. (Rachel)

Different means to go away.( Naomi)

Different means to change yourself because you want to be different. (David G. and Mordechai Yisroel)

Different means when you take something and put it at different place. (Menny)

Morah said that different means "not the same".

 

We are all alike. We have bodies, it makes us alike. We have different color skin, this makes us different.

We have eyes, it makes us alike. But we have different eye color, it makes us different.

 Some of us are boys, some are girls. It makes us different. We all have Birthdays, but on different days. We have names, but they are all different. We learned that Jewish people get names on special days- girls on the day when Torah is read in shul, boys at 8th day from their birthday- on the day of Bris. Our names are very special. Some of us are named after our greatgrandparents or grandparents, some after Torah heroes. THe important thing we learned that people who we are named after are people who are very special and dear to us. All Pre-K Friends agreed that being different is a good thing.  It makes us special!