Pesach learning filled week.
We keep saying the word 'Pesach' but what does that mean in the minds of our preschoolers?
We wanted the children to visualize what a Pesach Seder night looks like.
Drawing on knowledge we know the children have, we staged 2 tables.
One set for Shabbos and one set for the Pesach Seder.
"Is it Shabbos party today?" Nope.
"Are there two tables- one for a birthday party?" Nope.
Now that we got their curiosity, we looked a little closer and figured out the differences between Shabbos and Pesach.
Arik helped decided where the Matzah goes.
Mendel helped us count the four cups of grape juice on the Pesach table.
Practicing writing the Hebrew word Matzah in salt.
Mina showing us a real big 'Shmura' Matzah (hand made)
Arik traced his own matzah.
Arik traced his own matzah.
Matzah bakery
Our friends had fun creating their own big oven for the Matzah bakery center.
We placed pictures of real Matzah factories that create hundreds of hand made Matzah for Pesach.
Chana Rochel baking her Matzah very quickly since it all has to happen within 18 minutes for it to be Kosher.
Sholom waiting so patiently to place his Matzah in the oven.
Concentrating on making it very flat.
Eli making holes with a fork to insure the dough would stay flat and not rise.
Esther brought her baked matzah to the table and started a Pesach meal.
Mina wanted to sing the Alef Beis.
We found Mina and Sholom with the King Pharaoh and Moshe puppet having a conversation.
King Pharaoh said "Make the Matzahs faster." Moshe said "I care, good job."
The Seder
We began talking about what is in the Haggadah this week.
We touched on the 10 plagues.
How did Hashem help King Pharaoh learn his lesson on how to treat people?
The first plague was all the Egyptians water turned into blood! Adelle checked her water outside to see if there was blood.
We emphasized how Hashem wanted King Pharaoh to let the Jewish people free but he was very stubborn and he didn't change his mind.
After not listening to his first lesson he woke up one morning and there were frogs everywhere.
Our friends had fun trying to make their little frogs jump onto King Paroh.
Tasting our Tears
We learned about 'Karpas' when we dip a vegetable into salty water.
Why?
The Morahs started crying and secretly added water to their faces to look like tears.
After discussing how we all cry sometimes we talked about what do tears taste like?
Batya tasting water and salt to see what tears taste like.
We remember the Jewish people who cried over the hard work in Mitzrayim.
Working as Jewish slaves in the sandbox.
Pesach on our art table. Mendel painting on a Matzah. Chanie painting a pyramids.
We CARE so much about each other!
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