Each year, each class in the girls’ school leads a one-hour prayer service for family and friends. Third grade’s turn was on Thursday, and the school’s newsletter described the service as such:

With Passover beginning next week, students explored the theme of freedom, with each student sharing a quote about freedom—“’A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself,’ said Jim Morrison,” a student shared—as well as about what freedom means to members of the community. To prepare for the tefillah, third graders first selected the theme of freedom (voting as a class), and then looked at the prayers in the siddur (prayer book) to select the prayers that spoke to their chosen theme. “This whole process was done to empower the students to take ownership of the process and be leaders,” says Judaic studies teacher Sharona Israeli-Roth.

Here are a few pics and a video from the morning.

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