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Second and Seventh Graders Buddy Up to Celebrate Passover at Urban Adamah

Each year as part of their curriculum, both second and seventh graders visit Urban Adamah, an educational farm and community center. Because the second and seventh graders have been buddied up as mentors and mentees through our Mentor Program, the trip was “reformulated so that the students could visit Urban Adamah together in a way that allowed for so many amazing outcomes,” explains Jody Bloom, seventh grade Judaic studies teacher. After riding the buses together, mentor groups participated in various Passover-related activities, including making matzah—grinding the wheat, stirring the flour with water, and cooking the matzah dough—and making cob bricks by weeding and separating straw and mixing soil, sand, and straw in brick molds.
 
“I really liked making and eating matzah with my buddy,” said a second grader. Added a seventh grader, “I would love to go back and see the area we flattened out and whether the compost piles we made lead to fertile ground.” MORE PHOTOS
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