It is the last week of school in our Sinai Akiba Academy community. The night before my kindergartner’s graduation, we sat and created a word search. He asked me to write words into a puzzle of letters and afterwards, would look for them. But not just any words. He wanted me to choose words that would describe his year to come. I tried to explain that I can’t predict what his first-grade year will look like and instead, asked him to describe what he is hoping for. After ten seconds of silence, he found his words. Friends, books, playing, learning,...