This week's Parsha is the last in Sefer Bereishis.
Before Yakov passed away he calls his sons to bless them. Yosef brought Menashe and Efrayim with him to get a blessing by his father. Menashe was the oldest son and Efrayim was the youngest son.
Yosef brought them close to his father. He put Menashe on the right and Efrayim on the left so Yakov can reach them easily. Yakov switched his hands and stretched his right hand over Efrayim, the younger one, and his left hand over Menashe, the older son.
Yosef thought his father got confused, but Yakov told him: Menashe your older son is going to become great but Efrayim will become even greater.
In this picture Evan is playing Yakov, Yisroel is Menashe and Mendel is Efrayim.
To help the children learn to differentiate between their right and left side, we tied a blue Ribbon on the right hand and a red ribbon on the left hand.
Yakov then called all of his sons to tell them when Moshiach will come, but suddenly Hashem made him forget so he blessed them instead. In class we asked the children why do you think Hashem made him forget? Motty said: "Moshiach is a very big surprise".
After Yakov passed away the son's buried him in Me'aras Hamachpela, in Eretz Yisroel.
Towards the end of the Parsha Yosef passed away. Yosef asked his brothers before he passed away to bury him in Mitzrayim and when Hashem pulls us out of Mitzrayim the YIDDEN should take him out with them.
Aleph Beis
This week we learned the letters Shin ש and Sin ש. The difference between them is the dot. In this picture the children are showing the letter Shin by lifting their right hand to show the dot on the right.
Here the children are showing the letter Sin by lifting their left hand to show the dot on the left.
We love it when our mommies come and play with us in school!
Motty's mommy joined us for a game of Aleph Beis Spot-It.
"I can not believe it, am I reading!"
We finished learning the sounds and now we are working on blending words together.
Bela Riva first read the sounds separately then she glued the sounds together to make a word.
Saige is looking for the correct letters to spell the words she found.
Rozie is working so nicely on her workbook.
Figuring out the beginning sound of a word can be a lot of fun!
What's the Matter: Solids, Liquids and Gases
The scientists in the Mitzvah Mentchie classroom discovered the 3 types of matter this week.
A solid has a shape by itself, a liquid takes the shape of the container that it's in, and a gas has no shape and is hard to see.
Bela Riva and Morah Davina work as a team
to sort the matter pictures into different categories.
to sort the matter pictures into different categories.
Aleph Beis Adventures: Yud
Connecting with our parsha this week, we explored the letter Yud using our Yadayim (hands).
Fayga colors her inflated "Yad" and had a lot of fun squishing and playing with it.
Mendel uses his pincher fingers and circles the Aleph-beis letters
he hears the Morah say.
We like to review as we go along in Tk!
J is for Jewels
Evan strings beads to make a bracelet for his dad :)
The beads we used were a bit smaller and trickier to get on, requiring some intense focus and hand-eye coordination, but he persevered and was triumphant.
*PSA:we are unsure if the jewelry made it home *
First we estimated how many Jewels it would take to fill the container.
Below Faiga adds a jewel to the pill bottle.
As we passed around the containers the numbers got higher and higher.
The answer's really surprised us!
Mining for Jewels was a great sensory tie-in.
Menachem the geologist used a magnifying glass to examine the stone, and a sieve to sift away the surrounding sand.
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Shhhhhh! This is a library.
A sweet Shabbos party moment.
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