Vision
The Brenna Berger Adath Israel preschool’s vision is to honor the legacy of our congregation's founders by creating a warm, stimulating, and creative learning environment whose building blocks represent the Jewish values that Adath Israel congregation was built upon.
>We provide a home-like, loving, trusting, and meaningful learning environment for our children; a place where children, families, and educators, learn, grow, and build together our sense of belonging and community through our Jewish values and tradition. Through a strong focus on learning Hebrew language, the weekly Torah portion and Jewish holidays, we strive to give our students a strong foundation in forming their Jewish identity.
Curriculum & Program
Our preschool curriculum is designed to be appropriate for children two to five years old and is implemented with attention to the different needs, interests, and developmental levels of the children. The preschool environment emphasizes physical, emotional, social, cognitive and creative development.
Group interaction is the method used to enable children to learn through active exploration and interaction with adults, each other and the materials around them. We believe in a developmentally appropriate, child-directed and teacher-supported approach to fostering young children, allowing them to learn as they interact with the world around them.
About Brenna
Brenna Ilana Berger (May 28 1969 - November 15, 2010) meant so much more to her family than we can write here or ever explain in words. We miss her so much.
Brenna was a thoughtful granddaughter, loving daughter, and amazing sister. She touched everyone she knew with her kindness and open heart, never judgmental but always offered to help anyone in need. Her dedication to children and education will live strong in the Brenna Berger Adath Israel Preschool.
When Brenna was young she was brought to Adath Israel by her grandparents and Holocaust survivors, Morris and Tosia Szames. Morris and Tosia were early members of Adath Israel. Brenna was a happy child and loved to play with the other children in the social room. She always asked her grandparents to take her back again and again. She made many lifelong friends in the social hall at Adath Israel. One of those friends became her college roommate.