Pesach

We have been working so hard on learning  the pesach story and learning about pesach. We spoke about King Pharoah and how he made the Jewish people work so hard day and night. They davened (prayed) to Hashem to free them, and Hashem sent Rabbi Moshe to save them. Hashem punished King Pharoah and the Egyptians with ten punishments one of which was frogs jumping all over them. Finally Pharoah agreed to let the Jewish people leave. When they left, however, there were in a hurry , so they mixed flour and water and put it in their backpacks and let the dough bake on their backs. It therefore turned in to FLAT matza.

The Story in a Nutshell ( The adult version;)

After many decades of slavery to the Egyptian pharaohs, during which time the Jewish people were subjected to backbreaking labor and unbearable horrors, G‑d saw the people’s distress and sent Moses to Pharaoh with a message: “Send forth My people, so that they may serve Me.” But despite numerous warnings, Pharaoh refused to heed G‑d’s command. G‑d then sent upon Egypt ten devastating plagues, afflicting them and destroying everything from their livestock to their crops.

At the stroke of midnight of 15 Nissan in the year 2448 from creation (1313 BCE), G‑d visited the last of the ten plagues on the Egyptians, killing all their firstborn. While doing so, G‑d spared the Children of Israel, “passing over” their homes—hence the name of the holiday. Pharaoh’s resistance was broken, and he virtually chased his former slaves out of the land. The Israelites left in such a hurry, in fact, that the bread they baked as provisions for the way did not have time to rise. Six hundred thousand adult males, plus many more women and children, left Egypt on that day, and began the trek to Mount Sinai and their birth as G‑d’s chosen people.

We are working so hard on our "Number Haggadahs".

 This is page three. We colored THREE  bumpy matzas with a brown crayon over a lego board!



We have been working on being able to recognize numbers 1- 5. Some of us are getting so good at it. We will be practicing more of this after our Pesach break!

Shulie putting three matzas on to the plate with a number three

Sarah putting one apple on to the plate with a number one

Sara putting three matzas on to the plate with a number three

Livia putting two candles on to the plate with a number two

Yael putting two candles on to the plate with a number two

Liam putting two candles on to the plate with a number two

We each had a chance to feel the bumpy matzas during circle time.! Some of us even wanted to try  a piece to see how it tastes:)

playing

These are some pictures taken of how kids can be creative and play with each other without any teacher intervention :) :) :)

purple

We have been reviewing the color purple.

We made purple collages

We did some exercises with purple sticks 

We painted with circle sponges and purple paint

Happy (Belated) birthday to Bassie

Purim!!

We have been so busy preparing for purim in our classroom!

We love to hear the story of Purim. Our new vocabulary words include: King , Queen, palace, crown, scepter, etc. We decorated our own palaces and we saw so many pictures of real palaces where real Kings and Queens live. What big , fancy houses Kings and Queens live in! We decorated our own purim character puppets to be able to tell you the story of Purim by ourselves:) . We learned some purim songs, and we used the king and queen outfits to dress up in our own classroom while telling over the purim story. We spoke about different emotions happy, sad, and other descriptive words like KIND esther, MEAN Haman, WISE mordechai etc...

This is one of the purim songs we learned in our classroom. We even sang it so loud for our grandparents today and they were so proud!!!

TUNE: If you're happy and you know it..



If you hear the name King Achashverosh stamp your feet...

If you hear the name Queen Vashti tap your shoulders...


If you hear the name  Mordechai clap your hands...

If you hear the name of Haman say BOOOO (shake your gragger.)...


If you hear the name Queen Esther... shout HOORAY...

Bassie and Liam dressed up as Queen Esther and Rabbi Mordechai.

We made our very own puppets to bring home.

We used finger paints to paint King Achashverosh orange

We used Liquid water colors to paint Haman

We decorated kind Queen Esther with pink feathers.

We decorated our noisy graggers with colorful tissue paper. We shake them when we don't want to hear mean Haman's name.

 We made Hamantash dough to shape with our grandparents when they come for the Purim party.

Here are some pictures from our Purim party with our grandparents.