This week we focused on the story of Rabbi Akiva. Rabbi Akiva was a simple shepherd, he didn't even know how to read. He and his wife were very poor. His wife Rochel encouraged him to go to Yeshiva (school) and learn Torah.
One of the lessons we learn from the story of Rabbi Akiva is to never give up. Rabbi Akiva was 40 years old and he did not even know the Alef Beis or how to read. One day Rabbi Akiva saw a rock with a hole in it. He looked up and saw a small stream of water dripping on the rock. He realized that the dripping water made the hole inside the rock. He thought that if water can slowly break at the rock and after many years make a hole, he should never give up on learning and eventually he will be able to learn Torah, even if he is 40 years old.
We used 40 fingers to count to 40.
Another idea we learned this week is that we don't need to know everything in order to become a teacher. If we know א we can teach א.
This week we invited Rabbi Akiva to learn with us. He was fascinated to see a 5-year-old teach him the Alef Beis and a 6-year-old teach him how to read.
It was unbelievable!!
After learning for 24 year, Rabbi Akiva came back home with 24,000 students.
Dovi: "24,000 is more than 11". In our class we have 11 students.
Rabbi Akiva's student loved learning Torah but didn't know how to respect each other.
This was very sad... on the days between Pesach and Lag BaOmer the students of Rabbi Akiva got sick and passed away.
From the story of Rabbi Akiva's students we learnt how important it is to respect each other. In our class Morah Avigayil wanted our students to understand how the students of Rabbi Akiva disrespected one another.
The Morah called two students to look through the toilet paper roll. One from each side.
Evan and Faiga had to share with the rest of the class what they saw.
Evan said that he saw a yellow paper and Faiga said that she saw an orange paper.
This was confusing for both of them and they started to argue with each other... "no it's orange, no its yellow..."
Until Motty said "they ⁷are both right, Evan can see yellow and Faiga can see orange!"
Motty was right, all of the students of Rabbi Akiva were right, they each had a different point of view and a different way of thinking but they were not able to discuss it in a respectful way with each other.
Money Matters
It's never to early to start learning about coins and money! We watched a video about the different types of coins.
A quarter is equal to 25 pennies.
Mendel and Dovi checked out their tzedaka coins to see what kind they were.
Sorting the different types of coins
Making Cents of it all.
After finishing our good behavior "shell jar" we got to put our coin sense to use in
this fun "fruit kebab " store.
We each got some quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies and had to buy the fruit for our kebabs.
We love fun and educational prizes!
Using clay to color, is a great sensory art!
Motty creates his name with clay.
Aleph- Bais Backwards Pictionary
listen to the instructions and try to figure out what letter you're drawing.
Threading the right number of beads on the flower! A great fine- motor activity, to strengthen our hand muscles.
Mendel creates a clay art picture.
I spy games, using a recent book donation are so fun!
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