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.