Jewish Reggae, Rock & Rap Headline Family Fun Day in Margate
Looking for an exciting and inexpensive way to have fun with your kids during Presidents’ Day weekend? Join the crowd at Margate’s Hebrew Academy Community School as they celebrate the joyous holiday of Purim with a concert, a carnival, games, food and fun on Sunday, February 14th from 3:30 – 8:30 PM.
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Margate Hebrew Academy Lights Menorah
Margate’s Hebrew Academy Youth Choir celebrated the first day of Chanukah singing traditional Jewish songs in a new fangled way at the North Lauderdale Municipal Complex. Among others, a hip-hop version of the Dreydel Song, exemplary of how the Jewish faith continues to evolve with the times.
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Tomorrow’s CEOs in Margate Today
Margate Elementary School 3rd Grade Teacher, Alava Alexander, is teaching kids how to run a business at an early age. She shows them how to determine profit, salaries and expenses, and imparts real world experience in dealing with customers, counting money and running the cash register. She calls it Kidz ‘n’ Biz.
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What are we feeding our Children?
A young, overweight Mom entered the convenience store the other day and gave her child a choice of what to have for breakfast. The child, appearing about six years old and overweight too, chose the strawberry crème wafers for $0.99, a mass of bleached flour and sugar void of vitamins, minerals, protein and fiber.
It's time we stop feeding our kids junk. Bad diet is adversely affecting the minds and bodies of a whole generation, the least problems of which may be physical obesity.
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Music, Art & Science at Margate's AWE
To attend the 3rd Annual Arts & Sciences Showcase at Margate’s Atlantic West Elementary is to live every parent’s dream: see your children sing and dance, relish in their artwork and watch them explore scientific realms.
Hundreds of parents and teachers looked on while the AWE Soaring Eagle Chorus, comprised of students in grades 2 through 5, performed classics to Calypso, throwing their hands in the air, twisting, shouting and bopping their bodies to a boogie beat.
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Atlantic West Elementary showcases student artists and scientists
The Third Annual Arts & Sciences Showcase takes place at Margate’s Atlantic West Elementary on Tuesday, May 26 at 6:00 p.m. Highlights include a retrospective of student artwork from the 2008-09 school year, award-winning science projects and an interactive ‘Make & Take’ art project for kids and parents to bring home. The event also includes a performance by AWE’s Soaring Eagle Chorus.
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Getting Over the Budget Crunch
We read stories daily about budget cuts in education and how Margate’s children are being affected. Teachers are on strict budgets with regard to copies that can be made monthly. Students take home fewer worksheets and supplements. Some of the richest and most timely materials available to teachers are not making it into the hands of students because of the copy quotas.
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