Parshat Naso- Everything has a purpose!

The children were so excited to come back after receiving the Torah. In this weeks Parsha we learn about the donations of the Nesiim. One of the donations was six wagons that were used for carrying the beams of the Miskan. We learnt that the beams exactly fit on the wagons.

Why didn't the Nesiim just give more wagons? Couldn't they be more generous?
We learnt that everything in the Mishkan had a purpose and nothing was wasted. The same applies to us. Every part of our body and all of our energy has a purpose and should be used to serve Hashem.

We internalized this message in class through a game. Morah Avigayil put out drawing of different parts of the body like hands, legs, mouths etc. She also put out different Mitzvots like Mezuzah, Shabbos Candles, Shofar etc. The children then matched the part of our body to the Mitzvah it fulfills.

Max is working with his mom on connecting the pictures of the Mitzvos to the right port of the body.

Here we are playing another game to learn how to use our time to do Mitzvot. The children walked around the classroom and when the Morah said stop the children stopped and listened to the part of the day that the Morah announced. They then shouted a Mitzvah they can possibly do at that time of the day. For example when the Morah announced "Morning" one of the children shouted "Modeh Ani".

Practicing our sight words.

We used trays filled with salt as a different medium to encourage writing.
The children were so enthusiastic to write the sight words they knew!


Elizabeth is hunting for the sight words Morah Davina hid in the salt. When she found the words she read it out loud.

We played a game to practice combining multiple sounds to create words. Morah Avigayil voiced the sounds while the children were invited to merge them.  They voiced it out while bringing their hands together with a clap.

Play store-- to sharpen our math!

The children took turns working as a cashier ,  adding up the different coins. They learned how much each coin is worth and how to add them. They also practiced subtraction by calculating the right amount of change to give back.