Purim: The power of prayer!

     The Mitzvah Mentchie historians were excited to delve into the story of Purim this week. It was a real treat to look at Gan Camarillo megillahs from the past. Many kids were able to spot siblings or cousins!

Each day we intorduced the next part of the Purim story with a game of hangman. A great way to practice letter recognition! 

Following a directed drawing to draw Achashverosh's palace.

Building our palace and playing in it was a blast!

Everyone enjoyed sitting on the throne under the canopy

Putting on "makeup" in the palace like the girls did. Esther just came with her natural beauty and Achashverosh realized she looked the most queenly.

We went into depth in the story and everyone couldn't wait to hear the next part.                                     Feeling the sackcloth that mordechai wore 

We have been talking alot about how precious our davening is to Hashem, by Davening we learned that the reason our yetzer hara tries to distract us, is because of how much Hashem loves the davening of Jewish children. 

Haman tried to stop the Jewish children from davening, he put them in chains, but they refused to stop davening to Hashem, and when Hashem saw that he decided to stop Haman's evil plan!

Practicing taking turns with a fun Purimland game.

Jewish children getting ready to read with an Aleph Beis game!

fine motor practice.

We filled up everyone's bucket's by creating a hole big enough for everyone's feet!