Martin J Gottlieb Day School

We are so excited to introduce our new staff! Please give them a warm welcome! #educatorsrock #weloveourteachers #jewishdayschool #jewishpreschool

We are so excited to introduce our new staff! Please give them a warm welcome! #educatorsrock #weloveourteachers #jewishdayschool #jewishpreschool

Honey from the Heart - Annual Rosh Hashanah Fundraiser

Place your Honey from the Heart order by July 7th for free shipping! Your purchase benefits students in the Middle School at the Martin J. Gottlieb Day School and members of the Setzer Youth Education programs at the Jacksonville Jewish Center. https://orthoney.com/JJC/ https://conta.cc/3qMfeKT

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Happy 4th of July🎉

This is what teachers do over the summer!!
All Day School teachers are are participating in book studies on how to create a classroom that is focused on personalization.
#LifelongLearning

This is what teachers do over the summer!!
All Day School teachers are are participating in book studies on how to create a classroom that is focused on personalization.
#LifelongLearning

8th grade retreat day! Meaningful moments lesson in the morning, board game challenge, chopped competition, catered lunch, swimming, escape room in a box and an award ceremony lead to an amazing fun day!

Cereal Box Challenge

Check out this awesome video that Mrs. Gutterman made in honor of our Cereal Box Challenge, where we collected over 613 cereal boxes! We then donated all of the boxes to JFCS!

https://youtu.be/OT8POCtreqc

Cereal Box Challenge

Day school students have written over 50 letters that will be sent to the IDF soldiers in Israel thanking them for protecting Israel and it’s citizens. They will be sent to Israel with the help of Stav, our community shaliach!

3rd graders are working on their project-based learning task about how the foods we eat and where they are grown connect us. Each team will do a slide presentation and design/create a food truck to demonstrate what they have learned.

Check out our new fig tree in the garden! It is surrounded by rocks that were decorated by the middle school students during their mitzvah program with their senior buddies from The Coves!
#mitzvah #jewishcommunity #martinjgottliebdayschool

Check out our new fig tree in the garden! It is surrounded by rocks that were decorated by the middle school students during their mitzvah program with their senior buddies from The Coves!
#mitzvah #jewishcommunity #martinjgottliebdayschool

*TEACHER SPOTLIGHT*

Meet Ms. Webster and Ms. Sarah! Ms. Webster is our former PE teacher and current 2nd grade teacher! She has been working at our schools for about 2 years. Her favorite thing about teaching is being able to get creative to help her students learn!
Fun Fact: Ms. Webster loves to beatbox!
Ms. Sarah has been working at the Martin J. Gottlieb Day School for 3 months and she is our current kindergarten teacher! Her favorite thing about teaching is the unplanned lessons that come in between the planned lessons!
Fun Fact: Ms. Sarah has her own library at home and is a big fan of superheroes, anime, comic books and Manga.

Today we celebrated Lag B’Omer!
We participated in STEAM activities indoors, like building a tower out of clay, straws, and popsicle sticks, and outdoors we had a Color Wars challenge with a fantastic ending - Cereal Box Dominoes! We exceeded our goal of 613 boxes of cereal - thank you to ALL in our community for making this happen! These will be donated to Jewish Family & Community Services (JFCS) to help those in need. It was a fun mitzvah project for the whole school!

Thanks to all of our staff for helping to make this event happen today in the safest manner. Coach Kolbow, an extra thanks to you for keeping it organized and engaging, and to Morah Liat and Morah Eta for making it meaningful and fun for all.
Shabbat Shalom!

5th grade is ready for color wars!!!!

5th grade is ready for color wars!!!!

We now have 519 boxes of cereal!! We still need 100 more boxes to meet our goal.

We only need 100 more boxes of cereal to meet our goal!!! We can do it with your help!!!

Earlier this week, some of our youngest students were able to collaborate with our oldest students! Kindergarten wrote letters to 8th grade students about the cereal box domino project. The eighth graders wrote them back and then joined them as reading buddies to share their letters and help them read! #workingtogether #teachingouryouth #readingtime

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We are half way there!! We need 300 more boxes of cereal by Friday to meet our goal. Cereal dominoes here we come 🎉

We are so proud of Abigail, an alum of the Martin J. Gottlieb Day School.

Congratulations to Abigail Fixel for being awarded the 2021 Len & Judy Elikan Youth Leader Camp Scholarship Award. Len and Judy Elikan created this scholarship based on their dream of helping young people experience Jewish summer camps.

Abigail is a graduate of the Martin J. Gottlieb Day School, attends Mandarin High School, and is the founder of her school’s Jewish Student Union and Camp Fixel, as well as president of her BBYO Jacksonville Chapter. Abigail will be attending the International Leadership Training Conference where BBYO's top teen leaders come together from around the world.
“I use Camp Fixel and the Jewish Student Union program I founded to advocate for equality. I will always do whatever I can to advocate for positive change. Every person deserves to get treated as equal.”

#youthleader #youngprofessionals #leadership #jewishlife #jewishfoundation #foundation #jewish #Scholarships2021 #award #mandarinhighschool #JewishTogether

YPF Jax

The fifth grade has been learning about electricity! In a STEAM project, the students created salt circuits. The process involved designing their circuit, outlining it in glitter glue, covering it with salt and finally, attaching a battery pack and an LED light.

How does it work⁉️

The current travels through the salt molecules and the glue helps move the current to the LED. Not only were the students able to learn about electricity and how to make a circuit, they also had to collaborate, brainstorm and problem-solve!

#ScienceIsCool #ExperimentalLearning
#SteamProject

*TEACHER SPOTLIGHT*

Say hello to the Haz and Morah Miriam! Both of these amazing people have been a part of our community for a very long time and we are so thankful for the impact they have made!

Hazzan Holzer (AKA the Shabbat Guy or the Puppet Guy) has been working at the Center for 13 years. He has many roles in our community including teaching Tefillah to our Day School students and Trope to our Middle School students. His favorite thing about his job is watching the kids in the community grow up right before his eyes!
Fun Fact: Hazzan has appeared on MTV twice!

Morah Miriam has been working at the Center for 30 years and is currently teaching Jewish Studies to our preschool students! She loves seeing the children’s love of learning and seeing their smiling faces!
Fun Fact: Morah Miriam is teaching children now whose parents were her students!

Join us this Sunday, April 25 for our Lag B’Omer Family Fun Day!

Activities for all ages!

Join us this Sunday, April 25 for our Lag B’Omer Family Fun Day!

Activities for all ages!

🚨Don’t forget to bring in a box (or more) of cereal for the JFCS food pantry by April 29th! #givingback #communityservice #cerealboxchallenge

Today, twelve 7th and 8th grade students from the Martin J. Gottlieb Day School were inducted into the National Junior Honor Society #ldorvdor #generationtogeneration #njhsinduction

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In honor of Yom Ha’Atzmaut, 3rd grade had an Israel map chalk challenge! #jewishlearning #learningisfun #israelsbirthday

We have the best staff! 💗💙🤍

*TEACHER SPOTLIGHT*

Meet Ms. Rebecca! She is currently one of our Kofim 1 teachers and she also helps run the schools social media pages! Ms. Rebecca has been working at the DuBow Preschool for 5 years. Her favorite thing about working with children is their innocence and being able to watch them grow throughout the year. A fun fact about Ms. Rebecca is that she went to the Martin J. Gottlieb Day School from kindergarten all the way up to 8th grade!

Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day was observed today.  Some of the programs included a reading with Rabbi Rosenblum, online lessons from the Anne Frank museum, a presentation by 3rd & 4th grade siblings on their visit to the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam and a documentary in memory of Michael Kitay whose grandchildren attended our school.

Rising first grade families - we look forward to seeing you virtually tonight!

Rising first grade families - we look forward to seeing you virtually tonight!

Meet Ms. Claire and Ms. Lizzie, our Day School Floaters! Ms. Claire is currently a floater for kindergarten and second grade, however she previously worked in the DuBow Preschool for 2 years. Her favorite thing about teaching is not only that everyday brings new experiences, but that she gets to see the kids grow and learn new things! A fun fact about Ms. Claire is that over spring break she adopted a 2 month old cat named Rey! Ms. Lizzie helps in kindergarten where she teaches science, and is also a teacher’s aide in first grade. This is her first year working for the Martin J. Gottlieb Day School, but she worked at Camp Ki Tov for the last two summers! Ms. Lizzie loves interacting with the kids and helping them have “ah ha” moments. A fun fact about Ms. Lizzie is that she is currently an occupational therapy student at the University of St. Augustine!

VPK Families - we hope that you will come meet (virtually) with our amazing Kindergarten Team tomorrow at 5:30pm!

VPK Families - we hope that you will come meet (virtually) with our amazing Kindergarten Team tomorrow at 5:30pm!

Looking for something to do with your children over break? Look no further! Spend some time decorating a white T-shirt for our Yom Ha’Atzmaut celebration on April 15th! We can’t wait to see all of your T-shirt creations!

Looking for something to do with your children over break? Look no further! Spend some time decorating a white T-shirt for our Yom Ha’Atzmaut celebration on April 15th! We can’t wait to see all of your T-shirt creations!