This week we began exploring the holiday of Pesach. We worked on cleaning our room and talked about the importance of cleaning away all of the Chametz or bread and breadcrumbs and other foods with yeast in preparation for Pesach. Our friends swept floors, scrubbed tables, and washed all the dishes in the classroom with sponges.
We were busy building pyramids with different materials. In the sensory bin we mixed sand and water and added ice cube trays to make bricks. At the table top we had paper shaped in pyramids and we used marble pieces and magna tiles to build too. Our friends chose to build the pyramids in different directions like stacking marble pieces, using plastic cups or sorting the magna tiles by colors..
We talked about how Pharaoh promised the Jews presents if they came to Egypt to help him build the pyramids. But he was mean and didn’t keep his promise. So they worked so hard and were not treated well. Hashem punished Pharaoh and the people of Egypt by sending plagues- frogs, bugs, sicknesses and the brave Moshe stood up to Pharaoh and said, “Let my people go!” The Jewish people were finally able to leave Egypt! While they traveled through the desert they did not have time to use yeast and wait for their bread to rise and so matzah was created from flour and water and it baked on their backs as they were traveling out of Egypt.
In the dramatic play area we opened a matzah bakery and all of our friends have been enjoying taking turns making matzah in our special matzah oven. Our friends have enjoyed listening to music and reading books about the story of Pesach this week as well.
We will continue learning about Pesach next week .
Another fun activity this week was getting a big box in our peach classroom.
We got a new book last week in honor of Avigail's birthday. The title of the book is Not Just a Box
Our friends could not stop looking at the pictures of the book and asking the morahs to read it to them.
Morah Ora brought a huge box to the classroom, and our friends started imagining different things about this box.
Ari took a shopping cart and pretended he is going to the store.
Avigail said I'm going to sit inside the pyramid .
Oz, Mika, Daria , Yosef, and Ariel were giggling loudly inside the box. They pretended like our box was a big house with doors. They would go in and out the box while closing and opening the "doors."
This book tells us that we do not only have to see a regular box .We can use our imagination and create lots of things with a box .
We want to give a big thank you to Morah Shternie Dietsch for donating not just a box !
Shabbat Shalom!
Morah Ora & Morah Chaya
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