Martin J. Gottlieb Day School Middle School Retreat 2013 Part I – The Storify
Each year, we take our Middle School for a fall retreat at Camp Ramah Darom. We spend four days playing, praying, learning, adventuring and building community. This year our theme was "derekh eretz" and how to strengthen our Community of Kindness.
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Nothing like a 9 hour bus ride to bring us together! #MiddleSchoolRetreat t.co/T7qleBtR5M
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It all begins with with a bus ride from Jacksonville, Florida to Clayton, Georgia!
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Getting ready for roadside davening! #middleschoolretreat t.co/LkNHLFIqLw
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(The days and times for the Flckr images are not accurately labeled. They are slotted appropriately.)
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We leave so early that we always stop on the side of the road for some “roadside davening”!
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A meal in a kosher restaurant is always a treat!
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We take advantage of driving through Atlanta each year to take educational field trip. This year? CNN!
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The final stop before Camp…Walmart! Here are a few girls enjoying a creative “ice cream campfire”!
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Our theme was “derekh eretz” and we had three educational activities to explore it. The first one divided our students into “Hokies” and “Pokies” – two cultures with many differences that had to learn to get along.
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The Hokies and Pokies are crossing the river @msmjgds #MiddleSchoolRetreat #CommunityOfKindness t.co/ksHdIE2k8c -
Hokies and Pokies had to work together to cross the raging river!
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Later that day we hiked to Telulah Falls…there it is!
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Martin J Gottlieb DaySchool is on our way to zip-line…we are doing our best to balance visual updates with edited video and pictures…be assured that all is well! #MiddleSchoolRetreat
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Our educational programming has begun! @MSmjgds #MiddleSchoolRetreat #PlanetKreplach t.co/Ubrf5xyGzK -
Our second educational activity required Planet Kreplach, Planet Gefilte Fish and Planet Matzoball to identify which Jewish values they needed to barter from each other to resolve serious issues facing the Council of (Jewish) Planets!
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Our second major outing was tubing! The best part was watching how many pairs of students who never really interacted prior to the retreat, sharing rides and enjoying the beautiful day.
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Our third educational activity was trust walks and conversation about how one builds trust and loyalty into our community of kindness.
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After a night of #Schnupencup dreams and a morning friendship circle, the Martin J Gottlieb DaySchool #MiddleSchoolRetreat is on the bus and headed home to Jacksonville!
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A final campfire, a night of final finding, and a final friendship circle took us onto the bus and back to school…and now the real test will begin. Will the magic stay at camp? Or will it come with us to school and help deepen our community of kindness – not just within the Middle School, but throughout the entire school? We hope so! But only time well tell.Watch this space!
