Rick and Janice Foleck with granddaughter Ameilia Portnoy (kindergarten).
Thanksgiving break was about to begin and excitement filled the air as preschool through fifth graders from Hebrew Academy of Tidewater Konikoff Center of Learning and Strelitz Early Childhood Education Center celebrated during the cherished annual tradition of Grandparents Day.
More than 125 grandparents and special guests met in the Fleder Multi-Purpose Room for musical performances, including a beautiful rendition of Hatikvah on the Suzuki chime bells, as well as other songs about thankfulness and tzedakah (charity). Fun classroom activities followed.
Many visitors came from nearby, while some traveled from Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, Maryland and North Carolina. Others traveled from lands even much farther away, including Israel and Iran. While the points of origin varied, the smiles, laughs and love for their little ones were quite the same…providing memory making at its best.
Hebrew Academy of Tidewater Konikoff Center of Learning and the Strelitz Early Childhood Education Center are Constituent Agencies of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater.
by Patti Seeman, director of development