Pesach and Self Portraits in KDH

Creating connections is a large part of the learning process. In KDH we create connections with each other and create connections from previous experiences to  new ones. One connection is social and the other cognitive in nature. Both support learning and remembering.
We read in the Haggadah, "In every generation, each person should visualize himself, leaving Egypt." Each month the children draw a self portrait. We try to vary the media to give the children as many experiences as possible. Sometimes the materials used relate to what we are working on in other areas. Legumes were used close to the Parsha where Yaakov made lentil soup. Last month we were making city prints. We liked that so much, we made our self portraits with prints.
Last week, as we were preparing ourselves for Pesach and making our KDH haggadah, the children drew a self portrait leaving Egypt together with all our Jewish brethren. They drew the boiling hot sun beating down in the desert, desert sand or water from the Red Sea and finally many of them were holding their matzah as they made their way of out Egypt!
We hope this will raise our consciousness of our connection to generations of the Jewish people.