Our kindergarten is open again!
- 2020/05/24 -
There was an
absolutely unforeseen compulsory break of nine long weeks in our
kindergarten due to the Corona virus that has disarranged the life of
the whole world since spring 2020 and that has also forced Israel to
close its schools and kindergartens. But by and by life became too
boring at home for both the parents and their children even with the
best home schooling via video, which was our Easter gift for the kids
and their families at home, and with our well-intended ideas for doing
handicrafts or filling in work sheets away from school. Children need
other children to learn together, to play together, and to gain valuable
experiences by being together with the others: how to share, how to
lose, how to forgive each other, how to win, how to apologize, how to be
even happier together with somebody else rather than being happy on
oneself - we had to learn all this once upon a time in our kindergarten.
And that is why
not only our teachers and the Sisters of St. Charles were very happy to
see the little ones coming back to our house and our garden and to
having them together with us again. And we are about to learn a lot of
new things now, e.g. how to respect the new security and hygiene
regulations. But what is most important of all: finally we can practice
the letters of the alphabet and the numbers which we still had to learn.
And moreover: we can run, jump around and play together again all the
time - that's just wonderful!
German Hospice St. Charles Jerusalem - Lloyd George Street 12, 91080 Jerusalem, Israel - Tel. 00972 2 5637737 - info@german-hospice.de