KDH Painting Outdoors

KDH tried to spend as much time as possible outdoors this week, enjoying the gorgeous weather. Painting outdoors seemed like the natural way to expression our good feelings. 

The children used their knowledge of primary and secondary colors to make purple, orange and brown and add to the colors in their paintings.

The beautiful, bright paintings. now on our bulletin board, are lifting our spirits in our classroom.

Morah Ruth

Chag Sameach from Kitah Gimmel!

Purim has finally come! Kitah Gimmel has been preparing for this day for the past couple of weeks! We have had dress up in our dramatic play center, filled with masks and hats, we have made many Groggers in all shapes and forms, baked hamantaschen, and we have been rehearsing our many Purim songs to perform at the party today!

Baking Hamantaschen

We took the plexi-glass wooden blocks that were a gift from the grandparents, and filled them with all different things that make noise (rice, beads, pearls, corn kernels, etc.) The yeladim did it themselves! They decided that these could be groggers because they make noise!

We had a wonderful time celebrating Purim at school today with all the yeladim and their parents. We loved seeing all the different costumes, and the yeladim all listened out for Haman's name during the megilah reading- what noise those groggers made!

Chag Sameach to everyone!

Morah Risa and Morah Debby

                                                                    Singing our songs!

                                                    Showing our costumes to our friends!

                                                           Listening to the megillah!

                                                             Shaking our groggers!

                                       Can you guess which yeladim are under these masks?

                                     

                                                           Having fun at the Purim Party!

How to make grape juice for Purim by KDH

Wash grapes. Pick grapes off vine.

Press grapes.

Pour into a pot.

Cook.

Strain. 

Pour into bottles.

Voila!

Use for Mishloach Manot. 

Drink on Purim!

Morah Ruth

Purim Kitah Alef

This week we filled our painted containers with popcorn kernels, rice, beans and pine cones. We added fun Purim stickers to make beautiful and loud Groggers.

 The children worked carefully to remove the stickers and place them on their very own Groggers. Sometimes the Morahs had to help.

 We also made puppets out of toilet paper rolls, colorful yarn, pom poms, and glue.

 Caleb: "I made a puppet!" (Holding up puppet) "It's big!" Morah: "How did you make it Caleb?" Caleb: "I made it go round and round."

 Tehila:(Holding up Puppet and pointing to orange string) "Orange!"

 Sammy knew exactly how she wanted her string placed on her puppet. Sammy: "Right here!"

 We wanted to give the children the experience of making a scroll just like Megillat Esther. We had a large sheet of paper and painted on it with feathers and black ink. The children dipped the feather carefully into the ink and made big and small lines and shapes of every kind on the scroll.

Happy Purim and Chag Sameach from Kitah Alef!!!

Purim characters in KB

The King and his guards

Queen Esther

Queen Esther

Queen Esther

A purim Clown

Mordechai

Haman

King Achashverosh

Queen Esther

Pearl: "The king lived in a palace"

Noa: "A king AND queen"

Shaya: "King Achashverosh"

Leiba: "A palace is big"

Morah: "The king got a new queen, Queen Esther. She was very beautiful and she had a special cousin."

Yoni: "Mordechai"

Levi: "He learned Torah"

Morah: "There was a not nice guy"

Ari S. "Haman"

Ari E. "He wanted to hurt the Jews."

Morah: "Hashem didnt let him! Esther spoke to the king and he sent Haman away"

Morah: "Nos we celebrate Purim"

Shaya: "we dress up."

Rami is going to dress up like a "lion."

Hannah is going to dress up like a "king"

Happy Purim, 

Morah Leah