What is Your Family Legacy? A Family Program for 5th and 6th Grade Families
This program helps families experiencing significant lifecycle events like B. Mitzvah explore ways to bring those who lived before them into the simcha through stories and artifacts in meaningful ways.
About this Lesson
During this 1.5-2 hour family program, participants will explore how the lives of family members who lived before them influenced their lives and use these stories to better understand their own legacies. Families will create rituals for upcoming B. Mitzvah ceremonies that honor and remember the legacies of those who have died. Best for families with 5th-6th graders.
This program was created for the 5th and 6th grade families at our Religious School. Parents and students especially appreciated having time to talk as a family about their legacy items and then learn about those that others shared.
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