Tu BShevat in KB!

It’s the birthday of the trees! What a beautiful holiday, giving thanks to the trees for all that they

give us, and being mindful of the year of growing that is ahead. We’ve celebrated in so

many ways, and spent so much of our reading time reading special books about trees

Morah Adi gets us from the library! 

Morah Adi made sure we had so much fruit from trees to explore with our taste buds,

noses, and hands during snack time and lunch. Victoria helped us fill a basket with all the

fruits we bought, and each day we try a new fruit! Friends can choose if they want to eat

the new fruit, we make the fruit bracha, and discuss who likes it and who doesn’t.

So far friends have really enjoyed avocado, orange, and pear! 

 

If the fruit we try has a seed, or pit, we put it in water to see if it will grow! We are growing a little garden by the window in our class! 

During tefillah Morah Adi has been teaching us about the 7 Species of Israel: wheat, barley, figs, dates, grapes, olives, and pomegranates. We play remembering games with pictures of the 7 Species, and learn details about each!

Friends also got to get their hands dirty! We asked the school to get fertilizer for us so that we could add it to the blueberry bushes, raspberry and blackberry vines, and sage and rosemary that are already growing at our school. We used shovels to add fertilizer to the base of the plants so that this year, they can grow back stronger! 

We learned a special bracha we say before smelling things, and Morah Adi taught us to say it with rosemary we picked and added to our challah! "Borei atzei besamim."

We even updated our trays for the holiday, using loose parts to decorate our very own trees!

We worked hard to paint and bead so many different decorations to hang in the trees on Tu BShevat! We used bells, bright colored felt, fun colored beads and wooden beads, and even little flower pots we painted to string up hanging decorations we will put in our fig tree at school on Tuesday when we celebrate!

Such a special holiday with these growing friends! Please take a moment to let us know how you plan to celebrate Tu BShevat at home!