Shalom Ulpanon Bet Families, The children returned from Rosh Hashanah ready to share stories from the holiday with their families. “We heard the shofar at beit haknesset (temple),” and “Did you know that we had a round challah on Rosh Hashanah and I got to put d’vash (honey) on it?” The children then worked on their Rosh Hashanah Journal Pages, telling their words and drawings about the holiday and its symbols. The holiday Journal Pages will be displayed in our classroom and sent home at the end of the school year. We enjoyed learning about and experiencing the rimon/ rimonim (pomegranate/s) in class. We discussed why the rimon is another symbol of Rosh Hashanah; it is a sweet new fruit and its seeds correspond to mitzvot in the Torah. We discussed the importance of doing hamon mitzvot (many good deeds). The children had fun with the garinim (seeds), as they rolled the pomegranates to loosen the seeds and then removed the seeds carefully from the shell of the fruit. We put the seeds in a bowl and added them to our snack. The children said the garinim were a little chamutz (sour) and a little matok (sweet). The children then explored the rimonim through art. They looked at and held rimonim of different sizes and shades, and at pictures of pomegranates and seeds. They then drew individual ‘still life’ pictures in pencil of the rimonim, commenting that “zeh rimonim batmuna” (those are pomegranates in [my] picture), “the top of the pomegranate looks like a crown,” and “I drew one rimon and chamesh (five) seeds because I’m five today!” Later, we sang a pomegranate song in Hebrew called, Ma Ha’Tseva Shel Ha’Rimon? (What is the Color of the Pomegranate?). The children then searched for and collected hidden seeds throughout the room to place on a giant pomegranate that was missing its seeds. Honey Bees: The Pre-K classes had the privilege of a visit from the “Bee Lady”, Ruth Askren, of the Hive Tribe. Ruth discussed the honeycombs and bee hives, the lifecycle of the bees, and the different types of honeybees and their respective jobs: The queen bee has the job of laying eggs in the hive; the female bees (worker bees) have stingers and gather pollen and nectar to make honey, and male bees (drones), who do not have stingers and whose job is to mate with the queen bee. The children had an opportunity to ask questions and view an enclosed bee hive and bees up close; they also enjoyed apples and honey. Specialists: During Music with Ditza, the children enjoyed singing Rosh Hashanah songs with the guitar and scarves. They also learned a song for Yom Kippur, singing Chatima Tova, to seal the end of a good year. Reminders:
Shabbat Shalom, Shoshi and Meirav
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