The fifth graders have been having a wonderful few weeks of class. Last week, we celebrated Purim in our class, discussed the Purim story and had a discussion about the motivations behind certain characters in the story. During Hebrew, we played a huge game of jeopardy where students created their own teams and competed with their classmates to say the most Hebrew words correctly for the most points. The students absolutely loved the fun competition and requested we play again soon.
This past week was the kick-off of our new elective program at TI. For the next two weeks, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, students will be participating in a small group havruta study of the Ha Lachma Anya text, recited at during the Passover Seder. After this, they will go to their electives for one hour to apply what they learned in their havruta sessions to art, Legos, cooking, or technology.
In our havruta session this past Tuesday and Wednesday, we discussed the idea of matzah as "the bread of slavery" as well as the idea of matzah as "the bread of freedom". The students took a look at several famous rabbis' interpretations and explained the thoughts in our own words. Several of the students I was working with explained that matzah connects to slavery in that matzah is low and flat just like the social class of the Israelites during the Passover story. The Israelites had no power and worked all day in the dirt.
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