Preparing for the next holiday is a great opportunity to master a variety of life skills. With some time till Purim, we wanted to lay a beautiful foundation to segue into the actual story of Purim and its traditions!
Mitzvah's are a special way to connect to Hashem. We do and talk about Mitzvah's throughout our days at Gan.
This week and next, we are dedicating to learning about the characters of two special Jewish heroes, Mordechai and Esther, who we read about in the Megillah.
Learning about Mitzvah's through their eyes and creating a connection with these characters- will hopefully cultivate the awareness that "we can all be like Mordechai and Esther" and seamlessly transition to the Purim story, understanding it in a deeper way.
Our dramatic play area turned into
"Mordechai and Esther's Home".
A warm inviting house that was filled with Mitzvah's.
Leah looking at the display of pictures of her doing Mitzvahs. This was a great conversation piece since it was right near Mordechai and Esther characters. They felt just like them!
Ben, discovering all the Jewish items like siddurim, Torah, Shabbos box.
A place of connecting to Hashem through davening.
Menachem and Yakov loved role modeling their fathers wearing the Tefillin.
A place of making delicious challah just like Esther did all those years ago!
A place for giving Tzedakah.
We had some fun Tzedakah activities. Chana, practicing drawing circles around coins in salt. Shua, had to find only the pennies to fit in the circle tray.
Ben, wanted to make tzedakah coins using chalk.
We talked a lot about being friends and how important that mitzvah was to Mordechai and Esther too.
Our friends were invited to ask each other what colors they want on their bracelets and made it for them. Chana, worked really hard making for her whole family.
We found Shua tellling our bearded dragon all about Mordechai.
Creating our favorite Mitzvah scenes.
At circle time, we read each child's mitzvah note and they were invited to place it on our Mordechai and Esther characters! This was a great connection for some, a visual of their Mitzvahs next to our smiling Jewish heros.
It was so exciting this week to see our friend Menachem Heidingsfeld proudly coming to school with his new Jewish uniform, his Yarlmuka and Tzitzis. He wanted to say his bracha next to Mordechai.
Mordechai and Esther moments were fun to watch. Yakov, returning Ben's bracelet. Chana, wanted to be dressed like Esther while cleaning the table.
Having fun in left over puddles!
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