Practice Makes Perfect

    This week we put the finishing touches on our haggados and made sure that we would all know what do do when the Seder rolled around. 

We took what we had been learning about and made it practical with a seder inside of our classroom!

We were so excited for each step of the seder!

We stood up on our chairs and sang Mah Nishtana and Dayenu.

We played some fun games as we went through each step, now that we have experienced it, we know that we will be ready on Seder night!

We cleaned our school

 and some of our toys for Pesach.

 Searching for Chametz all over our classroom. 

Just like our Tatty's will do the night before Pesach.

Some Sensory Science.

It's crazy that such a large amount of grapes made such a small amount of juice.

                          Doing a Write the Room activity and finding words in our classroom.                                                We had a scaffolded coloring table, color by letter for our Pre-k and color by word family for our Kinders.

Aleph beis hunt and digging giant holes in the sand.

Happy 5th Birthday Yanky and Sholom! 

We love you. 

Keep learning and growing!

 

Dancing in the sea!

It has been weeks of preparing for Pesach and this week we were finally at the highlight of how Hashem helped us leave Mitzrayim!

Our friends have been having fun building with different mediums in our Mitzrayim center.

Hashem tried to give King Paroh a chance to let him let us go.

We called the 10 plagues 'lessons' Hashem was trying to teach King Paroh.

Menachem, helped us demonstrate the first plague, he poured water in the King's cup and there was blood!!

Shua, served Moshe water and there was just delicious water. 

The King didn't like the blood and wanted the Jews to just leave! 

As soon as the blood went away, King Paroh changed his mind. 

Chana, learning about how Hashem sent frogs just to King Paroh and his people to try teach him another lesson.

                                                  

After ten lessons Hashem taught King Paroh it was finally time to leave Mitzrayim!! 

We followed Moshe to the big ocean. We put our two big blue carpets together and added sharks and whales. We felt the nerves when King Paroh was trying to change his mind again and was coming behind us. 

                                                  

As our friends were turning back around we pulled one of the carpets to create a 'splitting of the sea'!!

We were so happy we can finally leave Mitzrayim! Thank you Hashem! We took some tambourines and danced feeling so happy.

                                                              

Learning how to safely use plastic knives while splitting the 'water' playdough.

             

       Yakov, walking his people through the water.

                                                     

Shua, working on his ocean painted plate.

                                                           

At the sensory sand table we presented an idea to try to make circles like Matzah. Menachem still had the splitting sea in mind and creativity decided to make his own scene with little people and splitting the sand!

                                                

We have been working hard on our very own Hagaddah!

Nail polish swirled in water was a science experiment while decorating our cups for the seder.

At the Seder Table

 We have been delving into what our seder table will look like.

We took a look at everything that will be on our seder plate.

Moshe draws a picture of something that will be on the seder table for his friends to guess.

When we tasted the karpas dipped in salt water, we were reminded of our salty tears. 

One friend shared that when she had cried recently her tears were salty too.

Coloring the seder plate for our Haggadah.

We made our own Charoset in class, we all agreed it did look like the materials used to make bricks.

Ask your child if they were a fan :) Not everyone was.

Busy learning all the steps of the seder!

We are learning a song that will help us remember what each step is about.

Using legos to help us draw bumpy matzahs!

 

We are excited that our Mommies will let us drink 4 cups of grape juice!

Practing our handwriting for our Haggadahs.

This negel vasser cup game helped us remember that we wash twice by the seder.

Maggid we already knew the story of, so we played a silly game of mad-libs and switched it up.

We all laughed at the funny words!

Sewing our Afikoman bags was a little tricky, but we felt very accomplished when ours was finished

Working on our fine motor skills to create beautiful decorations for our class!

Using our imaginations to ride a bus!

Happy Birthday to Chana and Mendel!

We love watching you learn and grow every day!

Tasting our tears

We have been observing many 'Moshe moments'. It has been so heartwarming to see the care they have for each other and take to heart what Moshe has taught us.

Menachem, wanted to say the bracha on his tzitzis with the Moshe puppet.

We began the conversation about what we eat on Pesach, Matzah!

Using a sensory bag we had some friends use their fine motor skills to get the small pieces into the Challah or Matzah.

At circle time, we learned the differences of a Shabbos table vs a Seder table.

Menachem, counting the Matzah he made.

Ben, using his cutting skills to cut a Matzah for himself.

Chana, counting for us how many cups of grape juice we drink at the Seder.

How did the Jews feel when King Paroh was treating them so harshly? 

Our friends showed us their saddest faces. 

We asked our friends, have you ever tasted your tears?  They are quite salty!

On the seder table we dip  a vegetable into salt water to remind us what the Jewish people went through. We had mixed feelings about tasting the salt water. :)

Creating a Matzah factory. 

Busy making Matzah. 

Building in Mitzrayim.

Leah, enjoying making challah while we still can eat it ;)

                                        Fun finding our friends walking through the split sea ;)