The children got to see another side of this great man, as a father, in the book, Testing the Ice, written by his daughter Sharon Robinson.
After Schechter parent, Grant Finkel, volunteered in the library and heard the story, The Value of Courage: The Story of Jackie Robinson, being read aloud to the first graders, he brought in this object, a signed Jackie Robinson baseball. Grant said, "My Uncle Harry Finkel gave me this baseball when I was a little kid just getting into baseball. I didn't know who Jackie was then but now I understand." First graders have been hearing the words determination, courage, limited and unlimited a lot during library class. In their unit, Understanding Differences: Eye Disabilities, they read about Helen Keller's determination to speak, hear and see even though she was mute, deaf and blind. Wilma Rudolph was limited as a child by the childhood virus of polio and the unfair segregation laws but she was determined to become unlimited. She showed the world in the 1960 Olympic Games just how unlimited she could be! And Jackie Robinson used his courage and determination to break through the color barrier first through baseball and then through his own fears of swimming.
The children got to see another side of this great man, as a father, in the book, Testing the Ice, written by his daughter Sharon Robinson.
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Author For 29 years I had the best job as School Librarian in the Aaron Kushner Library for grades Pre K-3 at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston. Although I am retired, I remain Lori the Librarian. Archives
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