Parshas Tazriah Mitzorah

Click below for more info on the Parsha:
Tazriah- http://www.torahtots.com/parsha/vayikra/tazria2.htm
Mitzorah- http://www.torahtots.com/parsha/vayikra/metzora2.htm

Click below for a nice song on the Parsha:
http://www.chabad.org/kids/article_cdo/aid/608109/jewish/Tazria.htm

Letter Koof

This week Mickey brought us the letter Koof. It has one little line on top, one little line coming down, and one big line on the other side. Dont get confused with the letter Hay and Koof. The hay has a little line and the koof has a big line.

Kiddush begins with letter Koof

Excitements of the week

 On Monday, all Mazel Day School gathered together in synagogue to celebrate beginning of new month- Iyar. The month of Lag Baomer and Shavuos! Morah Chanie called one friend from each grade. Friends shared with all school what they are thankful for. Eliana represented our class and she said that she is thankful for her family. Good answer, Eliana!  

On Thursday, friends visited the Prospect Park Zoo as an ideal review of the lesson about kosher

and not kosher animals and future lessons about animals. Friends have discovered a nice addition to the Zoo- two beautiful Australians- Dingos.

Five tiny caterpillars arrived in a small jar in our classroom. 

Friends will get a chance to observe a miracle of metamorphosis.

Our World - Water

What Hashem created on second day? Water!

What do friends know about water? Friends said that we drink water.

 It is true, people can't live without water even few days.

Animals and plants- all living things- need water. 

Morah said that water gives us the fastest way to cool off, the fastest way to get clean.

 In the class, we learned about water properties - smell, color, shape. Friends discovered that water has the smell of fresh cool water. It doesn't have any shape. Water takes shape of any container it is in. When we poured it in a cup, it took shape of a cup. When we poured it in a vase, it took shape of vase.  Water doesn't have any color but a spoon of coffee will make it brown, a drop of yellow food coloring  will turn it yellow. 

 Other important property of water is that it likes to stick to everything. It stick to us and make us wet, it stick to our clothes and makes it wet. Water loves to make things wet.

 Next week, Pre-K friends will learn about where water comes from, about water cycle and different matters, and rainbow:)

Our World - Light (II)

This week friends continued to learn about properties of the light.

Friends learn that light travels in straight lines and it goes everywhere; it goes through things that are transparent. Transparent means clear or see through. Such things like glass, window, water, even some plastic are transparent. The light could be blocked by opaque things. Walls, doors, blocks, books, people are opaque. When light is blocked by an opaque object it stops. An opaque object forms a shadow.

Friends learned that position of the shadow depends on position of the sun. If sun is in front of us, shadow is behind. If sun is behind us, shadow is in front.

Happy Birthday David!

Mazel Tov to our friend David G.

who turned 5 years old!

Morah and Friends wish David to be healthy, to learn Torah and

have a lot of friends!

Pre-K class send their Mazel Tov to David's parents. May you have a lot of simcha from David. Thank you for fun toys friends got in honor of David's Happy Birthday!

Parshas Shemini

Click here for more info on the Parsha:

http://www.torahtots.com/parsha/vayikra/shmini2.htm 

Click here for a song on the Parsha:

http://www.chabad.org/kids/article_cdo/aid/608105/jewish/Shemini.htm

  

Letter Tzaddik Sofis

Sophie was our Mail Carrier who brought us letter Tzaddik Sofis. It has the same sound as letter Tzaddik. Tzaddik can be used at the beginning or middle of a word. Tzaddik Sofis can only be used at the end of a word such as eitz-tree. It has one big slanted line, and one little slanted line.

Letter Tzaddik

Letter Tzaddik has a big slanted line going down, a big line across on bottom, jump back up to make a little slanted line on the big slanted line.

Tzaddik looks like a tzaddik ( a holy man) davening with his hands high in the air.

Tzaddik begins a word like Tzippor- bird.

Model Matza Bakery

How do we make matza? With only 2 ingredients. Flour and water.

Wheat

Separate wheat kernels from shell

Leave kernels in bowl by blowing shells out.

Grinding the wheat into flour.

Ground wheat/flour.

Ready to mix flour and water together.

Pouring the water into the flour.

Mixing the dough super super fast so it can be in and out of the oven within 18 minutes so it doesn't begin to  rise. After 18 minutes dough can rise even without yeast inside.

Roll dough into ball.

Pat it and make it flat.

roll and roll the dough 

Make holes in dough so it wont rise

Bring the dough to the oven.

Pharoah in Mitzrayim.

Jews working hard.

Naomi helping Pharoah pour a drink and, oh my, it's blood not water.

Liza helps scratch King Pharoah's itchy lice.

Moshe leading the Jews out of Mitzrayim.

Pesach Prep and Fun

Rachel and Ari designing their Pesach pillow case soon to be used for leaning at the Seder while sipping grape juice and crunching on matza.

David, Leon, and Menny hard at work designing their pillow case.

David's work of art! Way to go David!! :)

There are 4 cups of wine, salt water, a pyramid, matzos, and the word Pesach.

Coloring in the different animals from the makkos to hang on our bulletin board.

Dotting the pyramids for the bulletin board.

Hagadda

Haggada

MAKING CHAROSES

Dice apples
put in some sugar

Sprinkle cinnamon 

Pour in some grape juice and mix

Mordechai helping to peel eggs for our Seder. Nice job!

Pesach II

 

Looking for chometz and the 10 pieces of bread.

  Picking crumbs up with feather (broom), scooping it onto spoon (dust pan), and putting it into bag.

All bags with chometz and bread we found around room was thrown into the "fire". 

Now our classroom is we are chometz free!

Practice Seder

First thing done at the Seder: Kiddush

Karpas

Dipping potatoes into salt water. (to remind us of the salty tears from the Jews crying in Mitzrayim because they had to work very hard.)

Yachatz

Breaking matza in half, putting smaller half back under the seder plate for the Korech sandwich and the bigger piece away for the afikoman dessert.

Maror

Menny is bravely tasting the bitter Maror that reminds us of the bitter times the Jews had in Mitzrayim.

Eliana is dipping Maror into Charoses. The Charoses looks like the bricks the Jews had to build in Mitzrayim.

Eating the Korech sandwich.

AT THE MODEL SEDER



Seder plate all ready to start.

Ari the Abba making Kiddush with all the friends.

Leaning while drinking first cup of grape juice

Dipping potato into salt water reminding us of the tears the Jewish people shed in Mitzrayim.

Yachatz

Broke Matza in half and putting half away for the Afikoman.

Maggid

All friends singing the "Mah Nishtana" together. Enjoy!

Motzei Matza 

Eating crunchy Matza

Tasting the bitter Maror

Korech sandwich

First thing eaten at Shulchan Orech- egg dipped in salt water.

Tzafon

Naomi hiding the Afikoman

Friends looking around for it and found the hidden afikoman. :) YaY!!!

Berach- Thanking Hashem for the food we ate.

Afterwards, we pour the 5th cup for Eliyahu Hanavi

Opening the door for Eliyahu Hanavi while asking him to help us make it easy for us to be a mentch.

Hallel & Nirtza

Last step of the Seder

Dancing and singing that next year we should celebrate Pesach in Yerushalyim!