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CJDS Celebrates Rosh Chodesh Shvat With Science and Judaica Fusion
March 2024
Charlotte Jewish Day School (CJDS) is always looking for innovative ways to tie our general studies program to our Judaica program and emphasizing the relevance of Judaic learning in our lives. To celebrate Rosh Chodesh Shvat, the first day of the month and the month that includes Tu B’Shvat, the beginning of a new year for trees, CJDS invited Essy Sefchovich, a high school science teacher with a bachelors in science from the University of California, to create and lead the program about the science of trees, flowers and fruits — as in the land of Israel, this marks the beginning of the new growth cycle for fruit bearing trees. The students conducted a series of experiments from discovering paper chromatography (the separation of colors) to extracting the “DNA” of strawberries. Ask any CJDS student in grades 2-7 about the life cycle of trees and how man is a tree of the field.
