[HANASHIR:4671] Re: Hanashir into the Next Century

[Posorg <Posorg...>]

Thank you,  Adrian, and all my new chaverim!

I am SO enjoying this list!  Yes, indeed, it IS friendly, loving, caring, 
respectful and passionate.  I've been on the list for a few weeks now and 
have been learning so much.  Thank you all!

I teach every Sunday in the University Synagogue sanctuary (in Los Angeles).  
K-2 classes each come to me for 20-minute sessions.  I also do a ten-minute 
songleading session for "most" of  the 4th-7th graders who have already sat 
for 30 minutes doing tefillah.  I say "most" because all the really good 
singers are members of a children's choir called HaSharim who leave to 
rehearse with the cantor at the beginning of this 40-minute combined 
tefillah/songleading block.  (The associate rabbi does tefillah.) 

I also help grade levels with song selection and rehearsals when they are to 
perform at family-centered services (which are held once a month).  I 
accompany each performing grade on guitar as I very informally conduct  & cue 
the kids.

In addition, I do songleading at our special, once-a-month Sunday "Family 
Learning Day" events, which include students in grades 4 through 7 as well as 
their parents.  These events are mostly holiday centered.

I discovered Hanashir from an incredible, new Jewish songleading program 
entitled "Sing a New Song" or "Shir Chadash," which is being designed and 
facilitated by Dr. David Ackerman of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los 
Angeles.  

The recent posts on songleading for 4th-6th graders have been especially 
helpful.

Todah rabah!! Thank you all!!

Kol tuv,

Susan Silver
Music Specialist
University Synagogue, Los Angeles 

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