[HANASHIR:16477] Re: music for preschoolers

[deborah dolin <kibitz30...>]

funny you asked about tree day...
 
just finished my songsheet and working on the service now.
 
we are doing a Tu B'shvat shabbas with a dinner/seder.  prek-3 (i think) will 
be highlighted.  wed i am meeting the rabbi and cantor to go over "stuff" lol.
 
The service we will be plugged in (so to speak), we being myself, my asst, and 
his songleading chugim.
 
does that help?
let me know!
 
b'shalom,
deborah

Amy Fried <jdkrheum (at) verizon(dot)net> wrote:
Hey, btw: how about Tu B'Shevat? Nobody's mentioned it, and it's around the
corner! Any fresh ideas?
-Amy
P.S. Ilana's story is why I asked about the evolution issue.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ilana axel" 
To: 
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:45 PM
Subject: [HANASHIR:16472] Re: music for preschoolers


> Perhaps I can help here, not with an opinion, but with
> an understanding. My sister-in-law, who became very
> observant in her adult life, asked my husband and I
> not to send dinosaur items as gifts to her children.
> The reason she gave was that since according to the
> Torah, the world was created 5764 years ago, dinosaurs
> could not have possibly existed. This is the only
> conflict I know about with regards to Judaism and
> dinosaurs, and I think it would concern some orthodox
> and Chasidic Jews. But my understanding is that the
> discussion here has more to do with which secular
> symbols we liberal Jews feel comfortable with, or not,
> and for what reasons. Hope this helps a tiny bit.
> Ilana
> --- Amy Fried wrote:
> > Could you tell us the rest of the words to "if you
> > see two neirot hide your
> > eyes??" Sounds cute.
> >
> > Also, Rahel brings up an interesting question:
> > what's un-Jewish about a
> > dinosaur? Sure, they're not mentioned in the bible,
> > but does that make them
> > secular?
> > -Amy
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "erik contzius" 
> > To: 
> > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 10:12 AM
> > Subject: [HANASHIR:16463] music for preschoolers
> >
> >
> > > wow, that was a large digest to sift through!
> > >
> > > i would only advocate that for the sake of
> > > preschoolers who make great affective connections
> > to
> > > their judaism at their age, that there be taught a
> > > BALANCE of music--that which teaches them in
> > English
> > > certain values/rituals of judaism, irrespective of
> > > musical form, AND that which teaches them
> > something
> > > about traditional Jewish music. I'll do silly
> > stuff
> > > like, "If you see two neirot, hide your eyes..."
> > (if
> > > you're happy and you know it) at the same time as
> > I
> > > have them all sing the traditional "Heiveinu
> > shalom
> > > aleikhem" or "zum gali gali." preschoolers will
> > grow
> > > up with positive connections to their judaism
> > based on
> > > their positive affective memories. i want to
> > ensure
> > > that those memories are both filled with
> > informative
> > > things as well as things which musically sound
> > jewish.
> > > if people want to do some dinosaur song, great.
> > but
> > > please, for the love of jewish culture, throw in
> > some
> > > simple niggunim or kick it "old school" as well.
> > let's
> > > not forget the oldies but goodies (whatever those
> > may
> > > be in your communities).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > =====
> > > Cantor Erik L. F. Contzius
> > > New Rochelle, New York
> > >
> > > COME TO THE ROZHINKE RETREAT: http://rozhinke.org/
> > > http://community.webshots.com/user/eriklfc
> > > http://soundswrite.com/swstore1.html#howexcellent
> > > http://tinr.org/
> > >
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> =====
> Ilana Axel
> Music Director/Jewish Music Specialist/Singer
> JRF Master Teacher 2002
> Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Synagogue
> Northbrook, Illinois
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