For members of the SAR HS Music Vs. club, the holiday season didn’t end with the eighth day of Chanukah. On Thursday morning, December 21, the Music Vs. club performed at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM) for the parents of hospitalized children. Last summer, Meghan Kelly, director of CHAM’s Child Life Program, requested that the music club perform at CHAM’s Holiday Shopping Experience. The Shopping Experience was designed to enable the parents of pediatric inpatients to select and wrap gifts for their children. One of the hospital rooms is transformed into a toy store, grouped by ages. Parents can take their time reviewing various options to identify the most desired gifts. Then, they select from festive boxes, ribbons and paper to wrap these gifts.

Abby Ebrahimoff and Dr. Michelle Humi, SAR HS School psychologist, helped the parents and child life specialists wrap the presents. Jessie Gronowitz, Abby Saltzman, Eden Barak, Ella Osen, Reed Leibowitz, Libby Bergier-Pesin and Batya Sarna performed their holiday favorites and took song requests from the parents while they wrapped the gifts.