שלום:
First, thank you so much for
including me in your mishloach manot baskets.
It was most thoughtful of you. I
will share the goodies with my husband.
The hamantaschen were delicious!
Today was the culmination of our
unit on Purim. Some of us wore costumes
(I was Super Hamantashen.). See the
letter I sent you, with a picture of the class, Cheryl, and me in our
costumes. Cheryl is the Morton Salt girl—“when
it rains, it pours.”
We retold the story, booing
Haman. We reviewed the mitzvot of Purim:
hearing the megillah, celebrating, giving mishloach manot (at least two
different foods) to friends, and giving tzedakah to the poor. Using the Hebrew alphabet, we reviewed
everything from Esther to Teresh (one of the king’s would-be assassins).
STORY: We read a book called Can You
Guess? Purim Big Book. We reviewed Purim—Esther, Mordecai, Ahashuerus,
Haman, Vashti, Adar, the gregger, and more.
The children applied objects to this Purim book.
CRAFT: Students created a gregger to “give Haman
a headache.” We used them in the
tefillah at the end of the day. First we
said several tefillah like the shema backwards.
Then Robin, Cantor Ken, and Rabbi Liben led us in a reading of It
Happened in Shusham as the megillah.. They used their greggers to
drown out Haman’s name.
HEBREW: Our
Hebrew lesson today was the vowel sound “ee,” represented by a . under any letter. Some examples are “eema” (mother), “tzipporah”
(bird), and “mayeem” (water). We also
learned עayin. Some words beginning with ע are
etz (tree), etz hayyim (rollers for the Torah), ayin (eye), and eparon (pencil).
Judy and Cheryl (Esther and Tzipporah)
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