A Graduating Class

Congratulations to our very own Class of 2011! We know they will do great things, and we are so excited to watch them continue to impact the world around them!

Thank you to Caroline for the photos!

More photos can be found on our Facebook Page!

Join Us As We Walk for Dawn!

Students at The Katlego Creche nursery school.

Please join us in celebrating our many HAMC volunteers at this year’s Parent Association volunteer appreciation day from 9 a.m. until noon on June 2, 2011.

As you may or may not know, HAMC lost a most extraordinary member of our family and a true friend, this year, when Dawn Levin z”l passed away. Thus, we've renamed the special day to the Dawn Levin Volunteer Appreciation Day. Dawn was likely one of the most tireless, inspiring and engaged volunteers at HAMC, often doing so out of the sight and without the knowledge of so many people in the community. She worked behind the scenes to make various fund raising events go off effortlessly as well enhancing a lot of programs. She was a gem. She is missed and will continue to be missed. In honoring her memory, we ask for your assistance, in honoring a commitment that was very important to Dawn, and to her family.

Dawn and her family have been working to raise funds to improve the conditions of the facilities of The Katlego Creche, a nursery school and a pre-school located in a village called Rooiboklaagte in north eastern South Africa. Once improved, the school can apply to be registered with the local municipality, and, once registered, the school will receive food assistance so that the school can serve a hot nutritious lunch to the kids. As part of this year’s Dawn Levin Volunteer Appreciation Day, the students at HAMC will participate in a Walk for Dawn. One-hundred percent of each pledge made will be placed directly into a fund for The Katlego Creche school. If our school can do a mitzvah for this school, and for Dawn and her family, then we are certainly participating in Tikkun Olam, or Repairing the World.

Please take the time to speak with your children about this special Walk for Dawn, so that each child will know the reason behind the walkathon. This will be a special morning for the whole school to walk as one to honor the life of a wonderful woman and to make a difference in the lives of children who touched her life and whose lives we can touch. Parents and friends are invited to celebrate Dawn and walk with the students!

Rather than pledge for each lap walked (and, especially if the weather is inclement and we have to move indoors and do this event a bit differently), we are asking for a pledge for participation. Please ask your family and your friends to participate, and please pledge generously so that each child will not only participate in the walk, but will feel like he or she has made a difference in another child’s life. The form can be downloaded at http://jewi.sh/dawnlevinwalk.

Please send in your donations/pledge forms as soon as possible. The Parent Association will match up to $500 of all money raised! Please mark your calendars for this important morning. And be sure to RSVP on Facebook!

Peter Pan's a Hit!

Yesterday was the Performing Arts Theatre Fund Peter Pan play. The students played to a packed house for two performances!

Seventh Grade Does Washington!

Our Seventh Graders enjoyed their time in Washington D.C. and Gettysburg, PA, with the Seventh Graders from Carmel Academy. We hope you enjoy the photos from their adventures!

More Photos from Israel!

We've got oodles more photos from our Eighth Graders in Israel. We also will have some video coming up soon! Stay tuned and check back in with us! For more photos, keep watching our Flickr account.

Grandparents Day 2011!

We have lots of video and photos from Grandparents Day yesterday at HAMC, and what you can't find here you can find on our YouTube page. We're so proud of our students, and we know you are, too, so be sure to let us know what you think!

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Kindergarten through Sixth Grade Singing "We Are the World":

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Eighth Graders Bond in Jerusalem

Our eighth graders are active and in Israel right now. We've got gobs of pictures that we hope you'll check out. When the students arrived in Israel, they participated in team-building activities, went to Machane Yehuda (the shuk) for lunch, and visited the Kotel on Friday night for Shabbat. Saturday night they visited the ever-happening Ben Yehuda. On Sunday, they spent time at Yad Vashem, Mt. Herzl, the Herzl Museum, and they visited the graves of Theodore Herzl, Yitzhak Rabin, and Hannah Senesh.





Stay tuned for more updates from our students abroad.

Go! Geography Stops by South Africa!

On our most recent adventures in Go! Geography, our After-School Enrichment Class, students visited the African continent and South Africa! Our seventh-, fifth-, and first-grade assistants did a great job with the students as they learned so much.

Students mapped their way from New Jersey to South Africa, explored the African Continent, and discussed endangered species like elephants and rhinoceroses. Greetings were learned in Zulu and Afrikaans, and the shortage of fresh clean water in Africa was discussed. There was unique South African foods, sports -- like rugby -- and even a South African beading activity.

Most importantly, students focused their attention on the environment. At the end of the class, the students will decide on an environmental charity where we will send a small donation and a story written by the students, assistants, and teachers about what they've learned and are planning to learn!




Stay tuned for our next adventure! And, if you missed our other adventures, you can find them here.