This week at Yeshiva of Central Queens, the JHS was filled with energy, excitement, chesed, and ruach. On Friday, color war 2018 broke out.
The students were split between the Blue Dovid team and the Gold Shlomo team, where the students competed in a variety of activities. Both teams gave d’vrei Torah and participated in a Torah Bowl. Each team created a song and a dance, performed a stomp presentation, created and filmed a commercial, and designed a plaque representing their teams. In addition, together the two teams created an achdut plaque to compliment the achdut that every student portrayed during all of the events.
While the halls at school were cloaked in blue and gold streamers and students were decked out in their respective team colors, the grade 2 students visited Queens College to see a performance of Charlotte’s Web, by author E.B. White, the classic story they had studied and read in class. The students learned a lot and loved seeing the characters come to life.
As most students engaged in activities and their regular learning schedules, several students volunteered to help a chesed organization that was set up in the YCQ MPR. These students donated their own money as well as gave their free time to help Chazaq, an organization that offers programs, speakers and assists students currently in public schools attend Yeshivot and Day schools.
One of the goals at YCQ is to not stop at simply teaching its students in a class room, but to create an environment that students can learn by experience, giving them pride in their school and showing them the importance of doing chesed, thereby teaching them a love for education, that will benefit them even long after they have
graduated.
This Week at YCQ
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