Mitzvah Moments

Sometimes remarkable moments are mitzvah moments. The Green Room, following on the heels of their Pizza, Pasta, Soup exploration, collected donations for a food drive. This tzedakah project has some wonderful aspects to it, not the least of which is how the children have been inspired by one of the books they read, Mitzvah Pizza by Sarah Lynn Scheerger, and used that inspiration to help track the incoming donations. In the photo below you can see a Green Room friend placing a sticky note on the wall outside their classroom. Curious about what those notes were about, I stuck around (pun intended) to find out. There are many of these notes, each with a small drawing or stamp or simply a letter. The teacher who was with the children asked them to tell me about the notes. And they did. In the book, based on a true story out of Philadelphia, a young girl visits a pizza shop with her father and notices a wall of notes. Each note represents a person who purchased a piece of pizza for someone else. In a parallel process, each note outside the Green Room represents another donation to the food drive. As donations come in, and the bulletin board gets populated with more notes, the children have a tangible representation of the work they and they families are doing. The documentation of this particular project is not just learning made visible, it is charitable work made visible for each child and for the classroom community together. Thank you to all families who donated to the Green Room Food Drive!

Shabbat Shalom,
Amy