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but I think it was only a few yards Levitsky came back when her
youngest child turned 11.
away," he said.
A great deal remained the same
They have remained friends
with fellow nursery-school stu- since the time she left and has to
dents Jeff Share and Kim Cole- this day, Mrs. Levitsky said. The
man McColl, and a former teacher teachers' approach to education is
continues to be a part of their lives. to focus on the developmental
Doris Winfrey coordinated Mark's needs of the child, "and that phi-
wedding last January and will do losophy hasn't changed, though
the same for Craig when he weds the ways we implement it are get-
ting more refined."
later this month.
Teachers today make a greater
The second year after the school
effort to work on pre-read-
opened the congregation
ing
skills, she added, and
moved to Farmington Hills.
The first
she believes students are
Enrollment at the nursery
classe s were
only getting smarter.
held at the
jumped to 120, so two class-
What has changed is
es for older students were "hous e 1. on the
the number of working
hil
moved to the main build-
mothers. Back when the
ing, while 3-year-olds con-
tinued to meet in the house on the nursery school opened, this was
limited; over the years, however,
hill.
Jonathan Greenberg was in it has increased to such an extent
Adat Shalom's nursery school in that the school has added ex-
tended care to its program.
1970.
Among the nursery's students
"I certainly remember those
trips down to the pond, although today is 3-year-old Joshua
I noticed' as I got older the pond Bernard. He loves school.
"I like it because of the teach-
got smaller," he said.
Today an organic farmer at a ers," he said. "And we make pro-
home outside Ann Arbor, he was jects and we play and we make art
impressed by the pure beauty of projects and we see Morah Snow
the area around the pond and by (the music teacher) and we went
to the apple orchard and the
one of his first teachers.
Doris Winfrey, he said, was an farm."
Brandon Kappy, 5 112, is in
unusual woman.
"There are adults who treat kindergarten at Hffiel Day School.
children like children, and adults He was a student last year at Adat
who treat children like adults, and Shalom's nursery school.
"I liked when I was on the
then there is the kind of person
who is in between. Mrs. Winfrey bimah performing a show," he
treated us with respect and had a said of the nursery school. "I think
real understanding of how chil- I was performing in Noah's Ark. I
dren's minds worked. She was think I was the lion.
"I liked singing, `Shabbat
very adept at communicating with
Shalom, Hey!' I also liked doing
us."
Six years later, Nikole Fine, the projects."
Mrs. Levitsky, who has "nev-
who graduated this month from
the University of Michigan, was er met a nursery-school teacher
I didn't like," said that working
at Adat Shalom's nursery school.
She still remembers the "house on with young children is the best job
the hill," and projects she made in the world.
"They learn so quickly, and
there remain some of her parents'
there's never a stage in their lives
favorites.
"Once we decorated cigar box- when they'll be learning more.
es for Father's Day," she said. You have a real chance to impact
`They were spray-painted silver lives, and they have so much love
or brown, then decorated on top and respect for their teacher. They
with dry macaroni. My father still make you feel like you're a Broad-
way star."
has his."
Today, the school has 14 class-
After two years as nursery-
school director, Mrs. Levitsky left rooms, a gym and 46 on staff. And
to raise her own family, and Ger- that handful of students has
ry Berkel, and later Janet Pont, grown to 330.
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took over as principal. But Mrs.
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