"I care!"

Two Leaders

The Pesach story came to life by the children helping us create an Egypt/Mitzrayim center in our classroom. It was time to learn about two very different leaders:

King Paroh - he did not like the fact that the Jewish people were getting larger in number. He was an un-caring King and made the Jewish people work hard as slaves. 

Moshe- He was a caring, kind person ; Hashem saw that he had the qualities  to lead the Jewish people out of Egypt!

Our Big idea for our foundation lesson on the Holiday of Pesach, is that we all can be like Moshe and care for one another. Moshe became our role model and leader in our classroom this week.

Emma dressed as a slave in our Egypt center with two different voices talking to her.

Paroh kept on screaming "work harder" . Moshe said "Great job!" 

You can tell from Emma's expressions which one she preferred ;)

Yanky wanted the King Paroh puppet to be tall so he made a tower for him.

How tall can we make it? This was also a great lesson on spacial awareness and balancing.

Taking a break IN the box.

 Mina picked up the Moshe puppet and said "I love you"

We Care

After learning about the different kinds of leaderships. It came apparent to our friends who we want to be like and show that we care for one another.

While Chana Rochel was busy building, Eli came over with a cup of water for her.

Batya and Mina noticed Shalom was sad because he didn't have space by the easel. They came over to him and gave him a hug to make him feel better. It was definitely catchy and Mendel came running over to do the same.

 We wanted to document all these special "I care moments". We placed a pyramid chart in our center and every time a child thought about another person and "cared" we wrote it down and placed it on our chart.

Moshe helped his friend with some water.

We found chanie caring about our classroom as she was wiping the wall that had shaving cream on it.

Building using blocks and shaving cream.

After circle time one day we wanted the children to get a little taste of what a Jewish slave must have felt like back in Egypt, so we did a little experiment.

We took all the lunchboxes away and replaced it with two cheerios. 

 We saw many concerned faces. Where was all their yummy snacks? 

This is what the slaves felt like- they weren't able to eat such yummy food rather a small amount of food that they all got the same. 

They got the point and we quickly returned their lunchboxes ;)

Not only did King Pharaoh treat them bad but he was quite cruel as he made them build on top of quicksand. Moshe and Shalom experimenting with our 'quick sand' using cornstarch and water they watched their sticks sink.

Happy 4th Birthday to our dear friend Mendel.

Thank you to the Petersens for donating beautiful flowers and plants for our garden!