Happy Chanukah

 One final note on Chanukah- the candle we use to light the other candles is called the shamash, or the helper candle. I am fond of the quote I once read by Rabbi David Wolpe who said,

“The Shamash lights the other candles. Be the Shamash.”

Here’s to being the shamash and to raising future helpers together.

Wishing you warmth and light, today and all winter long, from our ECDC family to yours,

Liza Baron is JCC Director, Early Childhood Development

https://jccpgh.org/a-chanukah-greeting-be-the-shamash/ 

 Happy St. Lucia Day

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Chanukah

 One final note on Chanukah- the candle we use to light the other candles is called the shamash, or the helper candle. I am fond of the quote I once read by Rabbi David Wolpe who said,

“The Shamash lights the other candles. Be the Shamash.”

Here’s to being the shamash and to raising future helpers together.

Wishing you warmth and light, today and all winter long, from our ECDC family to yours,

Liza Baron is JCC Director, Early Childhood Development

https://jccpgh.org/a-chanukah-greeting-be-the-shamash/

Festive Activities

 We have been doing a few Advents. 

One is called SnowScape by Michael Storrings where we open windows each day. 

One is reading a story a day from the book titled, 24 Christmas Tales Advent Calendar Storybook.

The Stories we enjoyed were:

The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry.

A Christmas Dream, and How It Came to Be True by Louisa May Alcott.

The Fir-Tree by Hans Christian Andersen.

Christmas Every Day by William Dean Howells.

Papa Panov's Special Christmas by Leo Tolstoy.

A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum.

Merry Christmas by Stephen Leacock.

A Stolen Christmas by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.

A Christmas Tree by Charles Dickens.

How the Captain Made Christmas by Thomas Nelson Page.

At Christmas Time by Anton Chekhov.

A Christmas Sermon by Robert Louis  Stevenson.

What Christmas is As We Grow Older by Charles Dickens.

What the Bell Saw and Said by Louisa May Alcott.

How Christmas Came to the Santa Maria Flats by Elia W. Peattie.

Christmas; or, The Good Fairy by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Christmas at Red Butte by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Christmas by Washington Irving.

The Last Dream of Old Oak by Hans Christian Andersen.

Christmas Jenny by Mary E. Wilkins Free.

The Elves and The Shoemaker by The Brothers Grimm.

The Little Match Girl by Hans Christain Andersen.

The Night Before Christmas: A Morality by William Dean Howells.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

Stave 1: Marley's Ghost.

Stave 2: The First of the Three Spirits.

Stave 3: The Second of the Three Spirits.

Stave 4: The Last of the Spirits.

Stave 5: The End of it.

Winter Borrowed Treasures

Some Winter Reads from our Mississauga Library that we travelled through:

Tulip Adoption

For $8.00 each, we were able to donate to the Tulip Festival https://tulipfestival.ca/adopt-2/ a bulb for Barron and one for Grandma.