DECEMBER 8 • 2022 | 27
Friendsgiving week
traditions have
become a staple of
Farber’s elementary
students’ experi-
ence during the
week leading up
to Thanksgiving.
Friendsgiving at
Farber has become
an opportunity
to work with our
students on friend-
ship-building skills
and appreciating our peers.
Initially, we held a
Friendsgiving Day Turkey Trot
along with activities such as
using paper feathers to describe
how one would show kindness
to a friend. These feathers
have been displayed on a
“Friendsgiving” banner that we
hang in our elementary hallway.
This year, however, we
decided to add a new tradition
that would
encourage peer
collaboration,
problem-solving
and teamwork. We
decided to add a
Friendsgiving Day
Parade for our
students, by the
students, creating
cardboard craft
floats using a
class-voted favorite
childhood book.
Our students in kindergarten
through fifth grade each chose
a story, split up into teams
and collaborated beautifully
to create the most adorable
cardboard craft floats. Finally,
the floats, ranging from Chicka
Chicka Boom Boom to If You
Give A Mouse A Cookie, were
paraded through our hallways
for all of our Farber community
to enjoy.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF FARBER HEBREW DAY SCHOOL
Farber’s
Friendsgiving
Day Parade
ELANA MIODOWNIK SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
Fourth grade’s Curious
George Float
Kindergarten Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Float with Mrs. Roberts,
Rochel Goodman, Noah Shanbaum, Kari Goldstein, Gila Leib (left),
Morah Rachel, Aly Faber, Ethan Gomez (right), Front (left to right)
Izzy Bennett, Nili Reinherz, Abie Lasson, Layla Klainberg, Ben Guidici,
Emily Weinberg and Mali Klainberg
Fifth grade If You Give A Mouse A Cookie Float, escorted by Anne
Gardin and Matthew Greenbaum
Third grade Stone Fox Float with Rabbi Ellis, Shira Attali, Rina
Reinherz, Naava Shanbaum, Sara Lib Rosenthal, Oliver Dovi Husarsky,
Nathan Hager, Ezra Hazan, Nava Gardin, Shoshana Layah Chapman,
Judah Khodorkovsky, Zev Gertner, Maayan Strosberg, Matis Abraham
and Leora Doppelt
Second grade posing with the first and second grade Stone Soup
Floats (front left to right) Jake Goodman, Yonah Strosberg, Zahava
Husarsky, Eitan Walz, Marni Gonik, Emma Skoczylas, Miryam Aron,
Charlie Faber, Jonah Lefkowitz. Standing Left: Shoshana Nadler, Noam
Mendelson; Standing right: Ruby Ungar, Alice Weinberg, Micah Lonn,
Jakey Gotlib, Max Friedman and Zev Klausner