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

