What happens in Sakinah Circle on any given day depends on a number of factors, but certain things are constant: Morning Assembly: We begin our day with the remembrance of our Creator.
KG-Meet-the-Teacher-2022
What are symbols?
This was a key question for a collaborative project called “The Corridor of Dreams”.
Students learned about the importance of olive trees, baked flatbread, dipped it in olive oil for a snack, tasted olives and created art. Each student made a leaf to share their dream and their leaves extended the olive branch, which stretched along the corridor at the entrance of the school.
In preceding weeks, students had researched olives, designed symbols on graph paper, done cross stitch on plastic canvas, written poetry and made digital art with symbols to convey powerful messages. Exploring the power of symbols to communicate gave them a way to talk about Palestine and its beautiful culture; students all learned about tatreez, the keffiyeh, and how the olive branch, the watermelon, the key and the character Handala have come to represent something more.