Hashem's home

Our friends have been talking and learning all about their homes for the past couple weeks. It was now time to talk about Hashem's home , the Beis Hamikdash!

We placed a picture of the Beis Hamikdash on the road map that had all their home pictures.

One of the highlights of the year is the Beis Hamikdash center in our classroom. It becomes a beautiful holy space to learn about what took place in Hashem's home in Eretz Yisroel and also prepare us for when we get to see the ultimate one when Moshiach comes!

Before the Kohanim would work in the Beis Hamikdash they would wash their hands and feet as preparation by the kiyor.

The Kohen Gadol would light the 7 branch Menorah everyday! They would use fresh pressed olive oil and it lit up not just in the Beis Hamikdash but the world as well. 

Learning how olive oil is made. 

Ariella, crushing olives. Ayal, got excited when a drop of oil came out of  an olive.

Gold instruments were introduced in the Beis Hamikdash as we spoke about the job of the Leveim who would play beautiful music.

Eli, counting the 12 loaves of bread that would be in the Lechem Hapanim.

 

Experimenting with oil colors in water.

Avraham working on his Choshen Mishpat which the Kohen Gadol wore in the Beis Hamikdash!

Hashem's home in my home!

Chanuka Unit

This week, we laid the foundation for the Chanuka story by living what it was like for the Jewish people in Israel before the story took place.

We did this by learning all about Hashem's home, the Beis Hamikdash!

Kfir and Shai building their version of the Beis Hamikdash.

We are waiting everyday for Moshiach when we can finally experience the real Beis Hamikdash. Until this happens we learned that we can bring the Beis Hamikdash into OUR HOME.

Chaya Leah, working on her home craft.

The different holy objects in the Beis Hamikdash represent another mitzvah in our home.

Menorah- The Kohen Gadol would light the Menorah (not the Chanuka one ;) we counted the difference in the branches) everyday!

Leah, showed us a Shabbos candle that we light to bring light into our home every Friday night! A special holy light just like the Menorah!

Lechem Hapanim- The showbread of 12 loaves that would be in the Beis Hamikdash and the Kohanim would get to eat it.

Our Kohanim in the classroom counting the 12 loaves. Mimi, pretending to taste some.

Kiyor- The gold wash basin that the Kohanim would start their service by washing their hands and feet. We do this in our home by washing Negel Vaser before we start the day!

We took this opportunity to learn the third morning blessing, matir assurim that we are thankful that we can move in the morning and also change our habits.

Mizbayach - The gold alter that kohanim would bring sacrifices. Now, we daven instead. 

We also learned our table that we eat we call it a Mizbayach because we can also invite poor people to eat and it atones for our mistakes.

Aron- 

The gold box were the luchos (tablets) were kept. In our home is the Torah books we have.

Prk Kria- 

Using shapes to make Hebrew letters and learning the letter Yud.

Kindergarten Kria

With Chanuka in mind we measured candles and added a vowel the  Alef Beis letter we saw on the measuring stick.

Chana, writing the sound she thinks that is on her head by her friends reading it.

English academics -

Using a dice and body movements to learn numbers.

Letter recognition and spelling.

Outside fun!

Thank you for our home and Happy Thanksgiving

This week we continued talking about our homes. We enjoyed going to each other homes. This will be a great fondation to our Chanuka unit coming up when we talk about Hashem's home - the Beis Hamikdash. 

Our class also learned about Yakov in this week's Parsha Vayeitzei. Our friends surrounded him with 12 rocks that represented the 12 tribes and a miracle happened and it all combined into one rock under Yakov's head. He was on the way to Charan (Israel) and Hashem sent down Malachim (angels) to protect him during his journey.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Making a delicious pumpkin pie together.

Bonding over baking.

Enjoying some pie together with the older class and wearing our thankful hats.

Working on our Chanuka bulletin board! Nechama, trimming our beautiful background. Axel and Yossi painting the start of our big Menorah.

Outside play time!

Rocky week!

This week's Parsha Vayeitzei talks about Yakov traveling from Barsheva to Charan and placed 12 stones around him and had a dream of Malachim (angels going up and down the ladder) . We learned that wherever we go we have protection around us and now that Yakov will be experiencing a different journey new malachim came down to protect him.

Learning how to use a ladder safely and Jack pretending he is one of the Malachim going up.

Creating a parsha scene using rocks and hot glue.

Prk Kria

We have been learning about the letter Tes.

Mendy proud of his Zayin he made.

Kindergarten Kria

We are almost up to the next vowel! We have been busy practicing using Kamatz and Patach together and reading long words. 

For this week's Parsha, we read words on the rocks!

English academics

Using our math skills (1-20) using dice.

Wind experiments. We had fun creating ribbon wind mobils and watching which direction the wind was coming from.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We have been talking a lot about how thankful we are to Hashem!

Making delicious pumpkin pie and enjoying it together with some chocolate milk!