Gan Camarillo Preschool: We are leaving Egypt..All about Matzah!

Friday, March 16, 2018

We are leaving Egypt..All about Matzah!

Leaving Egypt

We continued learning the story of Pharoah being not very kind to the Jewish people. He made them work hard carrying heavy bricks and they didnt even have a choice. They were tired and sad.

Hashem said, "This is not why I created my people!" I need to take them out of this slavery, so I can give them the Torah. Then they will have the choice every day to fill their time with Mitzvah's!

Hashem told Moshe, "Go to Pharoah, and tell him to Let my people go!"

Pharoah was very stubborn, and refused to listen to Moshe. Pharoah thought he was greater and stronger than Hashem! Hashem needed to teach Pharo who was the real King of the whole world, and Finally after 10 plagues he said, "GO!"

Moshe gathered all the Jewish people and told them its time to leave Mitzrayim.

They made Matzah to take with them. They didnt have much time to cook the Matzah!

But after travelling for a little bit, they reached a big ocean! What shall we do?

Some people said we should go back... but Pharoah was chasing after them because he had changed his mind!

Hashem made a big miracle and SPLIT the sea in half! The Jewish people were so thankful to be able to cross the ocean on dry land!

We set up a special "splitting of the sea" center- inviting the children to experience the miracle!

I wonder if the Jewish people were able to see all the beautiful

fish and creatures from under the sea?

Matzah VS Challah

We set up a model Matzah bakery, to help the children learn how Matzah is made, and the differences between Matzah and Challah!

We used forks to make holes, and set timers to 18minutes to make sure the Matzah was baked in quick enough time! We learned that if Matzah takes longer to cook, it can become Chometz!

What is Chometz? Science experiment!

To illustrate the differences of ingredients in Challah vs Matzah we did a science experiment!
Using 2 water bottles with balloons ontop. One bottle represented Challah. We poured some yeast into it! The other bottle represented the Matzah -- and this one only had water! We left the water bottles to see what would happen to the balloons after the yeast had time to activate!

We were all excited to see the "Challah" balloon had risen!

Chometz Sorting

We learned that one of the ways we observe the Pesach Holiday is by only eating foods that do not contain "Chometz." We played a sorting game to decipher which foods are Chometz, and which are not.