Tu Bshvat is coming up!

In Prek we learned about the last 3 plagues in Mitzrayim! 

 We got introduced to the idea of Gematria - how each letter represents a number.  The name of this week's Parsha is Bo, בא which equals to 3 using Gematria. The number 3 in the name of the Parsha is hinting to the last 3 makos (plagues) that we learnt about in this week's Parsha. 

Making Grasshoppers with clothes

 pins and jumping them in baskets!

Tape resist painting. The plague of darkness. 

We played an Aleph Beis freeze dance with a twist. We learned how the Darkness was so thick the Mitzriyiim actually froze! This gave the Jewish people the opportunity to enter their houses and find all the jewels the Mitzrayim stole from the Jews. Wherever the Jews were it was light and Hashem was on their side. As the lights turned off it was our time to search for the gems. We collected the letters Nun and Samach.

We focused on the upcoming Jewish Holidsay of Tu Bshvat! Tu Bshvat is the birthday of the trees. 

Why do we celebrate the trees, why not celebrate animals or the sun or moon?

People are compared to the trees. Just like I am always growing, so is a tree. It changes through the seasons, and so do people!

The fruit of our trees are our Torah and Mitzvos that we do! 

Looking at our fingerprints to also show how unique each one of us are and how every tree grows in unique ways.

Menachem F was very excited to tell us how we are compared to trees :)

We moved our bodies in the shape of seed into a grown tree

Working on our tree hats!

Leaf and tree art.

Shaping letters with seeds

Chaya Leah proud of herself matching all of the Aleph Beis letters herself!

Torah Tots and Trees

Tu Bshvat -15th of the Hebrew month of Shvat is a day that marks the beginning of a "new year' for trees. This is needed for certain Mitzvahs pertaining to the trees and their fruit.  

This week we focused on how WE are like the trees!

Our beautiful Tu B'shvat bulletin board made by our friends.

Thank you Hashem for the trees!

Leah, helping us demonstrate how even our bodies resemble the trees. 

While talking about roots we did an experiment putting celery in blue liquid to watch how it slowly went up the celery and made it blue!

Yossi, showing us how we can drink water like roots using a straw!

Just like a tree starts off like a little seed, we looked at yossi's baby picture and noticed how much he has grown.

Tree sensory art fun!

Working hard on Tu B'shvat projects.

Trees give us delicious fruit, our 'fruit' to Hashem is our Mitzvahs. We wrote Mitzvahs on fruit pictures and placed it on their arm 'branches'.

On Tu B'shvat, we eat the 7 fruits of Israel. Avraham creating a fig for his '7 fruits man'.

Thank you Morah Malka, for practicing our Tu Bshvat song under the tree for the Grandparents day!

Fun in the sun!

Humbling the Hardened

 This weeks Torah Portion is Va'eira. It is the start of the Jewish peoples end of their hard years in Mitzrayim. 

 Why did Hashem need to send TEN plagues!

Couldn't one be enough?

We learned that the reason there was 10, was because each one taught Pharoah in another way, the idea that EVERYTHING comes from Hashem!

Pharoah thought HE could make water turn to blood, you don't need "HASHEM" to do that!
 He also thought HE could make frogs multiply, or cause animals to die. But each plague reinforced to him that it is truly HASHEM that is running the world and controlling everything.

Making our own Niles full of 'blood' with all the smelly dead fish in them.

We learned that the only way the Mitzriyim were able to get clean water was if they payed the Jews! even if it was in the same cup it would change. 

We had pretend play including juices like lemon and orange juice :) 

Plague of frogs

Starting from the mouth our friends "Ribbited" the little frogs out onto the Aleph Beis letters it matched to on the big frog.

Tadpole making 

Plague of wild animals

Plague of boils!

On Tuesday 24th of Teves, it was the special day of the Alter Rebbe's Yahrzeit!

We are so lucky to be students of the Rebbe who showed us a new dimension of the world. We focused on the theme of the Alter Rebbe giving us the Tanya which are secrets to conquering our Yetzer Hara inside us! Looking through the magnetile we related it to the lesson of  seeing things through a different eye. He opened our eyes to see the world as constant lessons in refining ourselves and making the right choices.

A special rally with Rabbi Lang!

Happy Birthday Chana!

We love you so  much 

Aleph Beis

This week we focused on the letters Mem, Final Mem , and Nun.

To differentiate between both of the Mem's we played a fun stop and go game that included them seeing the letters switch fast and identifying what it is.

Using colored tape we traced out the letter Nun.

Enjoying the warm and sunny days this week. 

The sand was great for building from all the rain last week :)

Thank you Dentist Noam for visiting us and teaching us all about keeping our teeth healthy!