Shalom Ulpanon Bet Families, Teachers started the week with an all-staff professional development day. In addition to our educational workshops, we had an inspiring workshop about “Loose Materials” - natural and recycled materials - and the way we can incorporate them in our classrooms. We also had the privilege to meet with Dr. Vardit Ringold, Director of the School of Hebrew at Middlebury Language Schools, to learn about authentic Hebrew learning resources. Ulpanon Bet friends enjoyed baking Oznei Haman, Hamentashen. We created circles and filled them with a choice of strawberry or apricot jam, and chocolate chips, then pinched the corners of the dough to create triangles. Thank you to Melissa, Lacey’s mom for making the dough, baking with us and providing the baking goods. Attached is Melissa’s recipe: https://littlekosherlunch.com/index.php/2018/01/28/the-greatest-hamentaschen-cookies-that-ever-were/ During our discussion about the tradition of eating hamentaschen during Purim, we discovered the challenge of finding the best way to explain “why” we eat them, and to connect this to the words Oznei Haman - Haman’s Ears in Hebrew. We decided to enlist the help of our Room 1 friends and to ask the children for their thoughts about why we eat these triangle-shaped treats. The chidlren’s responses included:
“It’s a joke about Haman.” “Haman’s hat was shaped like a triangle.” “We do silly thing on Purim!” “It’s a Purim cookie.” We deepened our learning about Purim by studying some of the traditions. As we retold the story of Purim, we learned that it is a tradition to shake the ra’ashanim - groggers when we hear Haman’s name. The children are excited about another tradition of Purim, costume day! They are already busy planning their costumes, discussing their dress-up with their friends. We learned two more songs for the holiday: Zakan Aroch Li (A Long Beard for Me): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3fvNNac4oo, and Achat Shtayim Shlosh (One, Two, Three): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SNf-gqBI1g. We continued to explore the Jewish artist Marc Chagall, and we were inspired to recreate his stained-glass windows that are found in the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Yerushalayim. We showed the children close-up pictures of the series of 12 windows; the most famous of Chagall’s art in Israel. They admired the intricate omanut zchuchit (glass art) and took time to carefully recreate wonderful stained-glass art Kmo (like) Chagall. This art is also called vitrage in Hebrew. The children shared their interest by asking “How did Chagall put the window glass together?” “Do you put the art on the window or you make the window from the glass pieces?” One of the children discovered the connection between the name of the hospital in Jerusalem, “Hadassah” to Esther’s Jewish name in the Purim story that she kept as a secret. We are excited to share that we had our first Yoga class with instructor Cheryl Silberman. The children enjoyed stretching and having a zen time. We pretended to be various animals and practiced different Yoga poses. We will continue to have weekly Yoga classes with Cheryl on Wednesdays. Thank you to Sally, Olivia’s mom, for reading to us during our library time. She read: “I Like Myself” by Karen Beaumont, “The Book with No Pictures” by B.J. Novak and “A Costume For Noah” by Susan Topek. Rabbi Josh visited us for S’Torah time; he told us a story about a courier named Sarah, who delivered messages from village to village, as there were no phones or a post office. Sarah was kind to everyone and stopped to say hello to each person that she passed in the village. During one of Sarah’s journeys, a large carriage with a message from the King rushed by her in the street. They almost ran into Sarah on the road, and John, the driver, did not stop to help or to say hello to her or to any of the villagers. Further along, the carriage became stuck and Sarah stopped to smile and to offer her help. After she helped John back on the road, John told her, “You helped me even though I wasn’t nice to you. You taught me that it is important to be kind and to treat everyone with respect, if you’re a King, a villager or a stranger.” We asked Rabbi Josh why we eat Oznei Haman on Purim, The Rabbi explained that this reminds us of the miracle of Purim and how the Jewish people were safe, and that Haman’s hat had 3 corners. During music with Ditza we enjoyed singing Purim songs and using Ra’ashanim - groggers as instruments. Important Dates:
Meirav and Shoshi
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