Blessings on Food, "Ha-eitz" & "Ha-adama"

We started off this week so excited to see all of our friends again! We even checked on our bearded dragon to see how big he grew during the break!

We focused on the blessings we say for food that grows in the ground: "Ha'adama" and on food that grows on trees: "Ha'eitz"

We introduced it by having the children taste and enjoy all types of fruits together. 

Children learn best when the experience involves all parts of their body, so we made our bodies into a little seed (crunched our bodies into a ball) and then slowly stretched our arms, reaching higher and higher, as we turned our bodies into a big and strong "Eitz" tree!

 

 

We attached fruit on their arms as branches and invited friends to pick them off and say a Brachah! 

We spoke about all of our favorite treats and that Hashem's treats are our sweet Mitzvos just like the sweet fruit! 

                        We enjoyed a fun plum picking activity with magnets. The children were invited to "pick the plums" off the tree, and place the correct number of plums, to the corresponding number bucket.     

                                

Apple Trees to play and count with! Pear Art!                        

        

Purim Katan: This week was "Mini Purim" because there are 2 months of Adar! Thank you Chana for adding to our joy, by bringing in some Hamentashen to share with our class.

Blessing on Vegetables: "Borei P'ri Ha'adama" 

We created our own salad. Everyone got the opportunity to cut veggies and told us all about their favorite vegetables. We learned how they grow from the ground by hiding vegetable pictures under the carpet and the children had to "dig" and find them under the "dirt". 

We played a fun game where the Morah called out "Ha'eitz" and the children would jump up high like a tree, and then we would call out "Ha'adamah" and jump down and crunch their bodies like a seed in the ground.

Ha'adama Art work: painted brown on squares as soil to grow for potatoes, we also painted over the vegetables, to make a visual of the vegetables growing under the soil.

Vegetable Math!