2018-2019 Calendar Meyerhoff Early Childhood Education Center Meyerhoff Early Childhood Education Center AUGUST 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Camp - Week 7 1 2 3 4 5 Camp - Week 8 6 7 8 Parent 9 10 Rosh Chodesh Elul 11 Orientation 12 Camp - Week 9 13 14 15 16 Last Day of Camp 17 18 19 SCHOOL CLOSED 20 SCHOOL CLOSED 21 SCHOOL CLOSED 22 SCHOOL CLOSED 23 SCHOOL CLOSED 24 25 Rosh Chodesh Elul Welcome Back 26 Professional Day 27 Professional Day 28 1st Day of School 29 30 31 Pool Party SCHOOL CLOSED SCHOOL CLOSED I/T - Infant Toddler “I cannot say enough great things about the JCC’s ECEC program PS+ - Preschool Plus at Park Heights. The teachers are incredibly caring, nurturing and PS - Preschool creative. The most striking change in my 4 year-old son is that after ECEC Event two rounds of swimming instruction during the school year, he is Community Event swimming independently and under water!” – Deirdre K. Meyerhoff Early Childhood Education Center SEPTEMBER 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 Labor Day 3 4 5 6 Shabbat Closing 7 8 Time 5:45pm SCHOOL CLOSED Erev Rosh 9 Rosh Hashanah 10 Rosh Hashanah 11 12 13 Shabbat Closing 14 15 Hashanah SCHOOL CLOSED SCHOOL CLOSED Time 5:45pm Rosh Chodesh Tishrei 16 17 Erev Yom Kippur 18 Yom Kippur 19 20 Shabbat Closing 21 22 SCHOOL CLOSES SCHOOL CLOSED Time 5:45pm AT 12:30pm Sukkot Sukkot Erev Sukkot 23 24 25 26 Sukkah City 27 Shabbat Closing 28 29 JCC closes early SCHOOL CLOSED SCHOOL CLOSED Time 5:45pm 30 I/T - Infant Toddler PS+ - Preschool Plus PS - Preschool ECEC Event Community Event Meyerhoff Early Childhood Education Center OCTOBER 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Shemini Atzereth 1 Simchat Torah 2 3 4 Shabbat Closing 5 6 SCHOOL CLOSED SCHOOL CLOSED Time 5:15pm Emily Arrow 7 8 Rosh Chodesh 9 10 Back to School 11 Shabbat Closing 12 13 The Gordon Center Cheshvan Night Time 5:15pm Demo Day for Enrichment Classes Associated Super 14 15 16 17 18 Shabbat Closing 19 20 Sunday Time 5:15pm Biscuit 21 22 23 24 25 Shabbat Closing 26 27 The Gordon Center Time 5:15pm 28 29 30 School Pictures 31 I/T - Infant Toddler PS+ - Preschool Plus PS - Preschool ECEC Event Community Event Meyerhoff Early Childhood Education Center NOVEMBER 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 Shabbat Closing 2 3 Time 3:45pm BSO Music Box 4 5 6 7 Rosh Chodesh 8 Shabbat Closing 9 10 Series Kislev Time 3:45pm The Gordon Center Pirate Day The JCC and CJE 11 12 13 14 15 Shabbat Closing 16 17 present Story Time 3:45pm Pirates The Gordon Center 18 19 Our ECEC 20 Professional Day 21 Thanksgiving 22 SCHOOL CLOSED 23 24 Thanksgiving SCHOOL CLOSED SCHOOL CLOSED Feast Cirque-tacular 25 26 27 28 29 Shabbat Closing 30 The Gordon Center Time 3:45pm I/T - Infant Toddler PS+ - Preschool Plus PS - Preschool ECEC Event Community Event Meyerhoff Early Childhood Education Center DECEMBER 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Shabbat Closing 1 Time 3:45pm 1st Night of 2 2nd Night of 3 3rd Night of 4 4th Night of 5 5th Night of 6 6th Night of 7 7th Night of 8 Chanukah Chanukah Chanukah Chanukah Chanukah Chanukah Chanukah Chanukah at Shabbat Closing Rosh ChodeshTevet Foundry Row Time 3:45pm Chanukah Wonderland in PH 8th Night of 9 10 11 12 13 Shabbat Closing 14 15 Chanukah Time 3:45pm Maccabeats Concert The Gordon Center 16 17 18 19 20 Shabbat Closing 21 22 Time 3:45pm 23 I/T and PS+ Open 24 Christmas Day 25 I/T and PS+ Open 26 I/T and PS+ Open 27 I/T and PS+ Open 28 29 PRESCHOOL SCHOOL CLOSED PRESCHOOL PRESCHOOL PRESCHOOL CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED Shabbat Closing Time 3:45pm New Years Eve 30 31 I/T - Infant Toddler “I’ve always found the ECEC a very safe, I/T and PS+ Open PS+ - Preschool Plus nurturing, fun, and respectful environment. PRESCHOOL PS - Preschool The teachers and staff are so amazing and CLOSED ECEC Event really care about the children, and offer Community Event them ways to grow and thrive!” – Lisa C. Meyerhoff Early Childhood Education Center JANUARY 2019 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday New Year’s Day 1 2 3 Shabbat Closing 4 5 Time 4:00pm SCHOOL CLOSED 6 Rosh Chodesh 7 8 9 10 Parent/Teacher 11 12 Shevat Conferences SCHOOL CLOSED Summer in the 13 14 15 16 17 Shabbat Closing 18 19 Snow Time 4:00pm 20 Tu B’Shevat 21 22 23 24 Shabbat Closing 25 26 Time 4:00pm MLK Jr. Day SCHOOL CLOSED 27 28 29 30 31 I/T - Infant Toddler PS+ - Preschool Plus PS - Preschool ECEC Event Community Event Meyerhoff Early Childhood Education Center FEBRUARY 2019 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Shabbat Closing 1 2 Time 4:15pm 3 4 Rosh Chodesh 5 6 7 Shabbat Closing 8 9 Adar Time 4:15pm 10 11 12 13 14 Shabbat Closing 15 16 Time 4:15pm 17 Presidents Day 18 19 20 21 Shabbat Closing 22 23 Parent/TeacherProfessional Time 4:15pm ConferencesDevelopment Day SCHOOL CLOSED Laurie Berkner 24 25 26 27 28 Band The Gordon Center I/T - Infant Toddler PS+ - Preschool Plus PS - Preschool ECEC Event Community Event Meyerhoff Early Childhood Education Center MARCH 2019 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Shabbat Closing 1 Dr. Seuss’s Birthday 2 Time 4:45pm Read Across America 3 4 5 6 Rosh Chodesh 7 Shabbat Closing 8 9 Adar II Time 4:45pm Hamantaschen 10 CJE Conference 11 12 13 14 Shabbat Closing 15 16 Make and Take SCHOOL CLOSED Time 4:45pm ECEC Shabbat: Costume Party Purim Palooza 17 18 19 20 Purim 21 Shabbat Closing 22 23 in Park Heights Time 4:45pm Costume Day and Purim Parade 24 25 26 27 28 Shabbat Closing 29 30 Time 4:45pm 31 I/T - Infant Toddler PS+ - Preschool Plus PS - Preschool ECEC Event Community Event Meyerhoff Early Childhood Education Center APRIL 2019 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 Shabbat Closing 5 Rosh Chodesh 6 Time 5:45pm Nisan 7 8 9 10 11 Shabbat Closing 12 13 Time 5:45pm BSO Music Box 14 15 16 Passover Seder 17 18 Erev Passover 19 Passover 20 Series SCHOOL CLOSES The Gordon AT 12:30pm Center Passover 21 Passover 22 Passover 23 Passover 24 Passover 25 Passover 26 Passover 27 I/T and PS+ Open I/T and PS+ Open I/T and PS+ Open I/T and PS+ Open Shabbat Closing Time 5:45pm PRESCHOOL PRESCHOOL PRESCHOOL PRESCHOOL CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED SCHOOL CLOSED 28 29 30 I/T - Infant Toddler “The JCC ECEC is a phenomenal childcare center that is not content to PS+ - Preschool Plus simply care for the children; they go to the highest level to provide an PS - Preschool extremely warm and always exciting program that stimulates the children ECEC Event in a creative and fun way. My family and Daniel (most of all) is grateful for Community Event the professional and caring staff and the excellent leadership.” – Tova J. Meyerhoff Early Childhood Education Center MAY 2019 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 Yom HaShoah 2 Shabbat Closing 3 4 Time 5:45pm Rosh Chodesh 5 6 7 Yom Hazikaron 8 Yom Ha’atzmaut 9 Shabbat Closing 10 11 Iyyar Teacher Time 5:45pm Appreciation Week 12 13 Rosh Chodesh Sivan 14 15 16 Shabbat Closing 17 18 Time 5:45pm Mother’s Day 19 20 21 22 Lag B’Omer 23 Shabbat Closing 24 25 Time 5:45pm 26 Memorial Day 27 28 29 Healthy Choices 30 Shabbat Closing 31 SCHOOL CLOSED End of the Year Time 5:45pm Picnic I/T - Infant Toddler PS+ - Preschool Plus PS - Preschool ECEC Event Community Event Meyerhoff Early Childhood Education Center JUNE 2019 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Shabbat Closing 1 Time 5:45pm 6th Annual 2 3 Rosh Chodesh Sivan 4 5 6 Shabbat Closing 7 Erev Shavuot 8 Community Time 5:45pm Block Party Shavuot 9 Shavuot 10 11 12 Last Day of 13 Professional Day 14 15 SCHOOL CLOSED School SCHOOL CLOSED Father’s Day 16 First Day of 17 18 19 20 Shabbat Closing 21 22 Camp Time 6:00pm 23 24 25 26 27 Shabbat Closing 28 29 Time 6:00pm 30 I/T - Infant Toddler PS+ - Preschool Plus PS - Preschool ECEC Event Community Event JEWISH HOLIDAYS AT A GLANCE Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year A group of rebel Jews, the Maccabees, fought Passover is the first of the three pilgrim that falls on the first of the Hebrew month the Greeks and succeeded in winning back festivals. In Israel, Passover is the seven-day of Tishrei. Its observances include synagogue their land. They went back to their holy temple holiday of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, attendance where the shofar is blown, a festive only to find that the Greeks had almost with the first and last days observed as legal meal with traditional foods such as fish, carrots, completely destroyed it. Once they cleansed holidays and as holy days involving abstention a round challah and apples and honey. the temple, they were ready to light the from work, special prayer services, and holiday temple’s menorah. To their dismay, they found meals; the intervening days are known as Chol that there was enough oil to last only one HaMoed (“Weekdays of the Festival”).