Archive | May, 2015

The first week of All Around This World’s daily online learning adventure, Explore Everywhere, started with a bang — the bang of a kpanlogo drum booming out all over the vast African continent. Click here for a summary.

This week was one of overviews and introductions:

— the first weekly “Five Song Sing-Along” class

— the song we sing each class as our hello and goodbye

— the songs on the All Around This World: Africa (Classrooms) CD, which we’ll use as our “textbook”

— lists of interesting books and movies set in Africa that we’re going to read and watch together as we go through the summer.

Each week I’ll post the week-end Explore Everywhere summary for everyone to enjoy, and occasionally post something based on the daily Explore Everywhere lesson. Much of the content will be for subscribers only, but if you’re not on the list, don’t fret — we’ll still find a way to have fun.

On Tuesday, April 28, Rabbi Gershom Sizomu of the Abayudaya community of Uganda spent a lovely morning in Philadelphia playing music in Hebrew, English and Luganda for All Around This World families, kids from the Children’s Community School, and friends from Kol-Tzedek synagogue and JKidPhilly.

Gershom is a superstar! Not only is he the Rabbi of a fascinating community of African Jews but he is also the co-composer of “We Are Happy,” which opens and closes every single All Around This World class. Even though we think about Gershom every day when we enjoy his music, we want Gershom to visit us in person again and again.