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Stoler Early Learning Center 2019-2020 calendar
Stoler Early Learning Center
AUGUST 2019
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Noah’s Ark: 1 2 3
Week 7
7:52pm Havdalah: 8:58pm
4 Noah’s Ark: 5 6 7 8 9 10
Week 8
7:43pm 8:50pm
Tisha B’av 11 Noah’s Ark: 12 New Parent 13 14 15 Last Day 16 17
Week 9 Orientation of Camp
7:00pm
7:34pm 8:40pm
18 SCHOOL CLOSED 19 SCHOOL CLOSED 20 SCHOOL CLOSED 21 SCHOOL CLOSED 22 SCHOOL CLOSED 23 24
7:24pm 8:30pm
Parents’ 25 Professional 26 Professional 27 1st Day of School 28 29 30 *Rosh Chodesh Elul 31
Association Development Day Development Day
Welcome Back Pool SCHOOL CLOSED SCHOOL CLOSED
Party
3:00–6:00pm 8:19pm
7:13pm
I/T Infant Toddler “Emily looks forward to going to school every morning and
PS+ Preschool Plus actually gets upset when it is the weekend. Swimming is her
PS Preschool favorite, but she thoroughly enjoys all of the fun activities!”
PA Parents’ Association
*First day of the month in the Hebrew calendar,
Community Event
marked by the birth of a new moonStoler Early Learning Center
SEPTEMBER 2019
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Labor Day 2 3 4 5 6 7
SCHOOL CLOSED
7:01pm 8:08pm
Grandparents Day 8 PA Breakfast and 9 10 11 12 Grand Friend 13 14
Meet and Greet Shabbat
6:50pm 7:56pm
15 16 17 18 PA Meeting 19 20 21
7:00pm
Back to School Night
7:30pm
6:38pm 7:44pm
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
7:24 6:26pm 7:32pm
Erev Rosh 29 Rosh Chodesh 30
Hashanah Tishrei
JCC closes early Rosh Hashanah
SCHOOL
CLOSED
I/T Infant Toddler “Both of my kids in Noah’s Ark seem to love going to
PS+ Preschool Plus camp and seem happy to go. They both talk about the
PS Preschool activities at home too. The staff, counselors and TNTs
PA Parents’ Association are great!”
Community EventStoler Early Learning Center
OCTOBER 2019
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Rosh Chodesh 1 Days of Awe 2 3 4 5
Tishrei Food Drive
Rosh Hashanah
SCHOOL CLOSED
6:26pm 7:33pm
6 In School Tashlich 7 Rosh
Erev Chodesh
Yom Kippur 8 Back to School
Yom Kippur 9 10 11 12
for 3 and 4 year Cheshvan Night
SCHOOL CLOSES SCHOOL CLOSED
7:30pm
olds Columbus Day
AT 12:30pm
Food Drive Ends
6:15pm 7:22pm
Erev Sukkot 13 Sukkot 14 3s Farm Field Trip
Sukkot 15 3s Farm Trip 16 Farm Trip 17 18 19
SCHOOL SCHOOL CLOSED Kindergarten Sukkah City
CLOSED Information
Session PA Meeting
5:30pm
6:05pm 7:12pm
20 Shemini Atzereth 21 Simchat Torah 22 23 24 25 26
SCHOOL CLOSED SCHOOL CLOSED
7:24 5:56pm 7:02pm
27 28 Rosh Chodesh 29 Rosh Chodesh 30 31
Cheshvan Cheshvan
I/T Infant Toddler “She loves coming to school/camp every day. We can tell she is
PS+ Preschool Plus learning as well as having fun. We look forward to great pictures and
PS Preschool updates about her day through Tadpoles. The teachers are wonderful
PA Parents’ Association and welcome us as a part of the early childhood community.”
Community EventStoler Early Learning Center
NOVEMBER 2019
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Shalom Shabbat 2
3:30pm - 5:30pm
5:47pm 6:54pm
The Very Hungry 3 Pajama Day 4 Election Day 5 6 7 8 9
Caterpillar Mitzvah Monday
The Gordon Center
Daylight Savings
Time Begins
4:40pm 5:47pm
JVC Good 10 Mitzvah Monday 11 Picture Day 12 Picture Day 13 14 15 16
Neighbor Day:
Natural Playground
Clean up
BSO: Music Box
The Gordon Center 4:33pm 5:41pm
17 Mitzvah Monday 18 19 20 PA Meeting 21 22 23
5:30pm
4:29pm 5:36pm
24 Mitzvah Monday 25 Schoolwide 26 Professional Day 27 Rosh Chodesh 28 Rosh Chodesh 29 30
Thanksgiving Feast Kislev Kislev
SCHOOL CLOSED
Thanksgiving SCHOOL CLOSED
SCHOOL CLOSED
4:26pm 5:34pm
I/T Infant Toddler “My child has greatly enjoyed attending Noah’s Ark Camp. We really
PS+ Preschool Plus enjoy the weekly themed events/activities and the extensive pool
PS Preschool time. They are always excited, engaged and enjoying new activities.”
PA Parents’ Association
Community EventStoler Early Learning Center
DECEMBER 2019
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 JVC Casserole 3 4 5 6 Shalom Shabbat 7
Challenge 3:30pm - 5:30pm
4:25pm 5:33pm
Chanukah Hot 8 Dreidel Shop: 9 10 11 In School Olive Oil 12 13 14
Chocolate 5k through 12/12 Demonstration
4:26pm 5:34pm
15 Chanukah Light 16 17 Latke Tasting 18 PA Meeting 19 Maccabee Mayhem 20 Chanukah 21
Lab: through 5:30pm at Hunt Valley
12/17
4:28pm 5:37pm
Chanukah Begins 22 I/T and PS+ Open 23 I/T and PS+ Open 24 Christmas Day 25 I/T and PS+ Open 26 I/T and PS+ Open 27 Rosh Chodesh 28
SCHOOL CLOSED Tevet
Chanukah at Preschool Closed Preschool Closed Preschool Closed Preschool Closed
Foundry Row JVC Community
Mitzvah Day
4:32pm 5:41pm
Rosh Chodesh Tevet 29 I/T and PS+ Open 30 New Years Eve 31
Chanukah Wonderland Preschool Closed I/T and PS+ Open
in Park Heights School Closes at 4:30pm
Preschool Closed
Noon Years Eve Drop
Dress to Impress
I/T Infant Toddler “The teachers are professionals who create a warm and inviting
PS+ Preschool Plus environment that allows my children to feel safe and be ready
PS Preschool to learn. The program is individualized and incorporates a
PA Parents’ Association great mix of being creative and progressive, but is also very
Community Event structured. The children have a full and enriched schedule that
keep them engaged throughout the day.” – JeriStoler Early Learning Center
JANUARY 2020
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
New Year’s Day 1 2 3 Shalom Shabbat 4
3:30pm - 5:30pm
SCHOOL CLOSED
4:38pm 5:47pm
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
4:44pm 5:53pm
Summer in the 12 13 14 15 PA Meeting 16 Role Model/Hero 17 18
Snow 5:30pm Dress Up Day
BSO: Music Box
The Gordon Center
4:52pm 6:01pm
19 MLK Jr. Day 20 21 22 23 24 25
SCHOOL CLOSED
JVC Day of Service
5:00pm 6:09pm
Imagination 26 Rosh Chodesh 27 28 PA Drive in Movie 29 30 31
Movers Shevat
The Gordon Center
5:08pm
I/T Infant Toddler “Everyday we see pictures of my daughter trying new things! She has
PS+ Preschool Plus become so independent! I’m impressed with how much knowledge
PS Preschool she is coming home with. She loves making progress and ‘going in the
PA Parents’ Association big pool,’ and she talks a lot about what she has learned in nature and
Community Event healthy choices.” – Tova J.Stoler Early Learning Center
FEBRUARY 2020
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Shalom Shabbat 1
3:30pm - 5:30pm
6:17pm
PA Paint and Play: 2 3 4 5 6 Professional Day 7 8
Happy Glaze SCHOOL CLOSED
J Town Take-Over
5:16pm 6:25pm
9 Tu B’Shevat 10 11 12 13 14 15
Mitzvah
Monday
5:24pm 6:33pm
16 Presidents Day 17 18 19 20 21 22
P/T Conferences
I/T Open
PS/PS+ Closed
5:32pm 6:41pm
23 Scholastic Book 24 Rosh Chodesh Adar 25 Rosh Chodesh Adar 26 Pajama Day 27 28 29
Fair: through 2/28 Mis-Match Day Family Fun Night
5:40pm 6:49pm
I/T Infant Toddler “We couldn’t have picked a better place for Zev! He has so many
PS+ Preschool Plus opportunities to explore, create, learn, and have fun!” – Ayala
PS Preschool
PA Parents’ Association
Community EventStoler Early Learning Center
MARCH 2020
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Hamantaschen 1 Mitzvah Monday 2 3 4 5 6 Shalom Shabbat 7
Make and Take 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Laurie Berkner Band
The Gordon Center
5:47pm 6:56pm
Purim Palooza 8 Mitzvah Monday: 9 Purim Parade 10 11 12 13 14
in Park Heights Mishloach Manot
6:55pm 8:04pm
15 CJE Conference 16 17 18 PA Meeting 19 20 21
SCHOOL CLOSED 5:30pm
7:02pm 8:11pm
22 23 3s and 4s Trip 24 3s and 4s Trip 25 Rosh Chodesh Nisan 26 27 28
to the Matzah to the Matzah 3s and 4s Trip to
Factory Factory the Matzah Factory
J LIVE at the
Gordon
7:09pm 8:18pm
JVC Good Deeds 29 30 31
Day
I/T Infant Toddler “The teachers are fabulous, and care so much about the children’s
PS+ Preschool Plus happiness and well-being. Natan has such a wonderful time playing
PS Preschool with the other kids and participating in arts, music, and other
PA Parents’ Association activities. I get detailed reports on meals, naps, and any relevant daily
Community Event issues, and I’m very happy we picked the JCC.”Stoler Early Learning Center
APRIL 2020
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
3 and 4 year old 1 2 year old Passover 2 3 Shalom Shabbat 4
Seder Experience 3:30pm - 5:30pm
7:16pm 8:25pm
5 6 7 Erev Passover 8 Passover 9 Passover 10 Passover 11
SCHOOL CLOSES SCHOOL CLOSED SCHOOL CLOSED
AT 12:30pm
7:22pm 8:31pm
Passover 12 Passover 13 Passover 14 Passover 15 Passover 16 I/T and PS+ Open 17 18
I/T and PS+ Open I/T and PS+ Open SCHOOL CLOSED SCHOOL CLOSED PRESCHOOL CLOSED
PRESCHOOL PRESCHOOL CLOSED
CLOSED School Closes at
4:30pm 7:29pm 8:38pm
Passover 19 20 Yom HaShoah 21 4s Trip to 22 PA Meeting 23 Rosh Chodesh Iyyar 24 Rosh Chodesh Iyyar 25
Pearlstone 5:30pm
4s Trip to Pearlstone
7:36pm 8:45pm
26 27 Yom Hazikaron 28 Yom Ha’atzmaut 29 30
Israel Experience
Happy Birthday
Israel
Blue and White Day
Israel Experience
I/T Infant Toddler “Exposure to Nature & Gardening and healthy choices has engaged
PS+ Preschool Plus my toddler and increased awareness to the world around him! Getting
PS Preschool the kids involved in so many engaging specials keepings them active
PA Parents’ Association & loving school! My son is a more confident swimmer, the staff have
Community Event been friendly & we are already seeing my son’s confidence shine!”Stoler Early Learning Center
MAY 2020
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Family Shabbat 1 2
7:43pm 8:52pm
3 Teacher 4 5 6 7 8 9
Appreciation Week
7:50pm 8:59pm
Mother’s Day 10 11 Lag B’Omer 12 13 14 15 16
7:57pm 9:06pm
17 Mitzvah Monday 18 19 Healthy Choices 20 21 Yom Yerushalayim 22 23
End of the Year Jerusalem Day
Picnic Wear Yellow/Gold
8:03pm 9:12pm
Rosh Chodesh 24 Memorial Day 25 26 27 Erev Shavuot 28 Shavuot 29 Shavuot 30
Sivan SCHOOL CLOSED School Closes SCHOOL CLOSED
at 4:30pm
8:08pm 9:17pm
31 I/T Infant Toddler “My toddler loves all of the specials and extracurriculars they get
PS+ Preschool Plus at the J. Especially instructional swim and music. He pretend plays
PS Preschool guitar at home now, and this is new.”
PA Parents’ Association
Community EventStoler Early Learning Center
JUNE 2020
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4 5 6
8:13pm 9:22pm
7th Annual 7 8 9 Pre-K End of the 10 Last Day 11 Professional Day 12 13
Community Year Celebration of School SCHOOL CLOSED
Block Party
8:17pm 9:25pm
14 First Day of 15 16 17 18 19 20
Noah’s Ark
8:19pm 9:27pm
Father’s Day 21 Rosh Chodesh 22 Rosh Chodesh 23 24 25 Tot Shabbat at 26 27
Tamuz Tamuz the Owings Mills
JCC Pool
8:20pm 9:28pm
28 29 30
I/T Infant Toddler “The JCC has become our second home and a
PS+ Preschool Plus place my children and I enjoy coming to.”
PS Preschool
PA Parents’ Association
Community EventJEWISH HOLIDAYS AT A GLANCE
Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year A group of rebel Jews, the Maccabees, fought Passover is the first of the three pilgrim
that falls on the first of the Hebrew month the Greeks and succeeded in winning back festivals. In Israel, Passover is the seven-day
of Tishrei. Its observances include synagogue their land. They went back to their holy temple holiday of the Feast of Unleavened Bread,
attendance where the shofar is blown, a festive only to find that the Greeks had almost with the first and last days observed as legal
meal with traditional foods such as fish, carrots, completely destroyed it. Once they cleansed holidays and as holy days involving abstention
a round challah and apples and honey. the temple, they were ready to light the from work, special prayer services, and holiday
temple’s menorah. To their dismay, they found meals; the intervening days are known as Chol
that there was enough oil to last only one HaMoed (“Weekdays of the Festival”).
Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, day. They lit the menorah anyway, and to their
is considered to be the holiest day of the amazement, the oil lasted for eight whole
Jewish year. Its observances include 25-hour days, until more pure oil could be found. Yom Hazikaron, Memorial Day, and Yom
fast, synagogue services, the wearing of Ha’atzmaut, Independence Day, are special
white clothing, and the abstention of wearing days commemorating events in the national
leather. The solemn day is ushered in with a Shevat is the rainy season in Israel. It is the history of the State of Israel. We become
special service called “Kol Nidre” in which a time when trees begin to form buds that will one large family as we remember those who
representative of the congregation pleads eventually blossom and lead to the growth fell in order that we might have a state. The
with God to release the congregants from of fruit. And so it was that our rabbis at the month of Iyar provides us with an opportunity
all vows that they failed to keep. The liturgy time of the Second Temple decreed that the to reconnect to the Land of Israel as we think
focuses on personal change, confession of fifteenth day of the month of Shevat would be of the special varieties of the land and their
wrongdoings, and asking God for forgiveness. called the New Year of Trees, TU B’SHEVAT. connection to the holidays that bracket the
It was really more of a New Year for the tax month of Iyar (Pesach and Shavuot) as well
collector. It was the date used to determine as the celebration of the birth and existence
Sukkot, the Jewish harvest holiday, falls how much a person’s tithe would be. Farmers of the State of Israel and the radiance and
five days after the Yom Kippur. The holiday and landowners were to give one tenth of splendor of Jerusalem - Yerushalayim.
commemorates the days when the Hebrew their trees’ produce.
people lived in the wilderness after their
exodus from Egypt and celebrates the end of Shavuot is the Hebrew word for weeks. The
the fall harvest. Its customs include dwelling Adar is one of the happiest months in the holiday takes place seven weeks after the
in a temporary hut for one week, shaking the Jewish calendar, and not only because the second day of Passover. It is one of the three
“four species”, and rejoicing and being happy holiday of Purim falls within this month. major pilgrimage festivals (the other two are
in the holiday. The Rabbis say that “When Adar enters, we Pesach and Sukkot) and has both historical and
increase joyfulness.” (Babylonian Talmud agricultural significance.
Ta’anit 29a.)
Chanukah occurs on the 25th of the Hebrew
month of Kislev, which typically coincides with Tisha B’Av commemorates the many
late November/early December on the secular Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates disasters that have befallen the Jewish people
calendar. A long way back, around 165-168 the saving of the Jewish people from Haman, throughout history.
B.C.E. to be exact, King Antiochus, Syrian- who was planning to kill all the Jews. This
Greek emperor of the land, made Judaism a took place in the ancient Achaemenid Persian
crime punishable by death. He kicked the Jews Empire. The story is recorded in the Biblical
out of their land, destroyed their holy temple, Book of Esther.
and tried making them worship Greek idols.
Needless to say, the Jews would not take this
lying down.IMPORTANT CONTACTS
Dani Ashendorf Christine Schramm Kimberly Davidson
Director Administrative Assistant Assistant Director and
dashendorf@jcc.org eceadmin@jcc.org Noah’s Ark Director
410.559.3589 410.559.3556 kdavidson@jcc.org
410.559.3555
Carly Schwartz Lynn Benton
Senior Director Accounting Rabbi Jessica Dressin
cschwartz@jcc.org lbenton@jcc.org Jewish Life
410.500.5936 410.559.3516 jdressin@jcc.org
410.500.5949
Mindy Wassel, Lead Nurse Membership
Nurses’ Suite member_services@jcc.org Fax Number
nursingservices@jcc.org 410.559.3506 410.559.2473
410.559.3558
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