Parshat Tetzaveh: The Clothes Make the Man

Parshat Tetzaveh: The Clothes Make the Man

Hashem told the Jewish people to build a Mishkan as Hashem's home. They traveled with the Mishkan while they were in the desert. In last weeks parsha, Hashem told Bnei Yisroel to build the Mishkan and vessels that will go inside it.  This weeks parsha goes into detail about what should be made for the Mishkan.

The Jewish people were asked to bring oil for the Mishkan.

Rozie selected a color to drop into the oil!

Saige (and everyone) watched in awe as the drop went through the oil to the water below.

 

Aharon and his 4 sons were appointed as Kohanim (priests) and all their sons and grandsons are kohanim even till this day!

We marveled at the uniform the kohanim had to wear!

Regular kohanim wore 4 special clothes.

Yisroel demonstrates the "8" garments the Kohen Gadol wore.

We loved the choshen with its 12 stones, and the idea of the pomegranates and bells ringing when the Kohen Gadol walked into the room!

We also practiced weaving like the Jewish people did to give clothing to the Mishkan.

Capit Practice!

There is a sound that clips your lips! ע

The drill sound says "d,d,d" ד

Hard at work!

Aleph Beis : Ner starts with a Nun!

Playing an aleph beis matching game! Match the candle to the flame!

It was so sweet to watch everyone help each other find matches!

Each child has a Morah inside!

Menachem was the mini Morah and showed Evan what letter to write.

Pin the Nun on the Ner!

Alphabet Adventures! PPPP... Pasta and Pizza

Making pictures with pasta! Featured is a car menorah! 

Using pasta and playdough as a fun sensory activity

 

Coloring with water and stencils is a great and fun way to practice fine motor skills!

Pizza starts with P!

As a fun end to our P week. We made pizza to chase away the rainy day blues!

The TK felt great stepping into a leadership role and taking orders to make pizza for their friends!

Mendel decided he wanted a lot of sauce on his pizza!

Hits the spot!

Exercising our balancing skills!

Snack and Story

Matching the Globe to the Map

Shapes with a Jewish Twist!

On our second week of learning shapes, our friends seem to find shapes everywhere!

"Were standing on a lot of diamonds!"

Trying to make triangles with their legs.

Esther, "Let's make a circle together!"

A hungry frog came to circle time and requested different shapes to eat. Esther found the triangle for him to gobble up!

Sensory Shapes

Little tiny shapes and silly putty, invited the children to talk about the different shapes they recognize.

Mina was excited to find a circle hiding in her silly putty.

 Foam shapes hiding in shaving cream brought some smiles and giggles out.
Chana Rochel wanted to clean up after herself :)

All types of circle objects as a medium for painting.

Chanie made a face of circles.

 How many blocks can you fit into the rectangle?

Building towers with squares.

Turning shapes into a Jewish experience

The past two weeks, our friends have been working hard on their shape book. We took different shapes and turned it into a Mitzvah.

 Moshe telling us how much he loves his friends with his heart.

Noticing a rectangle on the Torah.

I am like a diamond in Hashem's eyes.

 Inviting guests into our home is a Mitzvah. Yanky made a square home and drew his friends.

Batya giving circle coins into the Tzedaka box. Batya noticed the top being a circle too. " A circle inside a circle."

Our davening songs were on shapes one morning. 

Parshat Terumah: Traveling the Map

This week’s Parsha is all about the Mishkan (tabernacle) and its Keilim (vessels). Hashem told the Jewish people to build a Mishkan as Hashem’s home. The Yidden traveled with the Mishkan while they were in the Midbar (desert) for 40 years. The Mishkan was like a tent! When the Yidden were ready to travel they packed up the Mishkan and carried it with them. When it was time to stop the Yidden unpacked the Mishkan. This week we took out a tent and build it with Morah Keren. We all had a lot of fun!

The name of this weeks Parsha is Terumah which means donation. Hashem told Moshe to tell the Yidden to donate gold, silver, copper, fabric, animal skins, wood, oil, spices and precious stones. These were all needed for parts of the Mishkan.
In class we spoke about what a donation means and how they help the community. 

The Menorah had seven branches which were all made from one piece of gold! Dovi and Mendel are trying to build a Menorah from one piece of dough.

                                                                                       











The Aron was made from three boxes, one inside the other!  The inner and outer boxes made from gold, the middle one made from wood, with golden keruvim (angels) on top. 

The Luchos (Ten commandments) were placed inside.

                                                         

We learned that when the Yiddin were following in the way of Hashem the Keruvim were facing each other, but when the Yiddin were not following in the way of Hashem the Kruvim were facing their backs to each other. Just like Menachem and Faiga are demonstrating for us.

Hashem said that when the Yidden will build a Mishkan, it will be a dwelling place (a home) for Hashem. In class we learned that each one of us can be a Mikdash. When we make our house holy and when we use our body to do Mitzvos we are making Hashem feel comfortable inside of us.

The World Map

We learned this week that the world is made up of big pieces of land. 

These are called Continents.

Countries are smaller and are inside continents. 

Our country is inside the Continent of North America.

We played a spin-off game of "pin the tail"

Everyone chose a color continent and needed to fly their plane to it blindfolded!

Saige landed right on her continent of Asia!

We sang a fun song to learn the names of the continents:

Asia, Africa, North and South America, Antarctica, Europe and finally Australia!

(ask your child to sing it to you!)

We had a fun time singing the song and pointing to each continent.

Did you know the continents aren't really those colors.

Mapmakers (or cartographers) make them different colors so we can tell the difference.

 Really the continents are all shades of brown and green because of what grows on them.

Last week was so rainy!

We made some soup to warm us up right in time for shabbos!

Enjoying the vegetable soup of our labor!

With matzah balls as a special treat!

 

We saw a rainbow!! 

Rainbows are so beautiful, and they are Hashem's reminder 

that we need to do more mitzvos to make the world more beautiful!