Letter Tzaddik

Tzaddik has a big line on the bottom, a big slanted line up and a little slanted line that goes up.

In the Hebrew language, the word Tzaddik means a righteous person. We imagined that the letter Tzaddik even looks like a righeous person. He has his hands stretched up because he is praying for other people.

Wonder Time

How do we move? Friends said that feet, bones and all our skeleton help us to move. Morah told friends that all our bones could not do their job without mighty muscles. They make us move, by pulling our bones around. Even when we smile or cry we use muscles. When we speak or eat, walk or skip we use muscles.
Then Morah asked friends why do strong people have big muscles. Some friends said it is because they eat a lot of healthy food. Morah said that muscles get bigger and stronger if they are used a lot.

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Show and Tell

This week host of Show and Tell was Ariel who brought one of his favorite toys- Wolf. When friends asked Ariel why he brought the wolf he said that the wolf starts with the letter of the week-W. It was very thoughtful!  

Ariel shared with friends that his parents bought him the wolf in a toy store. He also said that wolves like to eat "kurochka" and other meat, they are wild animals that can't be pets like dogs. Friends discussed if the Ariel's wolf is alive. Some friends said yes, some friends said no and they were right. Toys don't need food or water, they don't grow or change.  

Thank you, Ariel for the interesting Show and Tell and showing us the cutest wolf.

The coming week Show and Tell host is Zaylin.

This week we learned

The letter W! To make the letter we need four big lines. The W says /w/ like in words water, winter, what, where, why and whale or

Chava Evalyn's Wallet

and Ron's Watch

To review the letter W go to http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/letter-w/load.htm?f

To preteach the letter X go to http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/letter-x/load.htm?f

Pesach

We started to learn about the history of the holiday of Pesach, (that is coming up in three weeks.) We spoke about the mean rules that King Paraoh made against the Jewish people so that they won't overtake Egypt. Jewish people were forced to be slaves! Slaves are people who have no choices and must do whatever their masters tell them. They eat simple food and must work very, very hard. 

Hashem was not happy that the Jews were so sad and had to work so hard. He wanted them to be free and happy and able to do Mitzvos. Hashem picked Moshe as a leader who would take the Jewish people out of Egypt.

Moshe is born.

Moshe's Mom Yocheved hides him in a basket the Nile River.

Princess Batya finds Moshe and raises him in King Paraoh's palace. 

 Moshe went to Paraoh and asked in the name of G-d that he free the Jews. Paraoh did not believe that G-d was directly controlling the world and refused! G-d tells Moshe to give Paraoh different signs to show him that G-d is the one in charge and can direct the nature of this world. He send the Egyptians plagues, one at a time, but after each one, Paraoh refuses to admit that these are actions on Hashem and forbids the Jews from leaving Egypt!

Blood

Frogs

Wild Animals

Boils

Measuremets - height and lenght

What will we use to measure with they want to know how long or high things are? A ruler.
What will we use to measure temperature of water? A thermometer.
What will we use to measure weight of something? A scale.
This week we learned about measurement tools and  how they help us. Boys measured boards, papers, tables using rulers and measuring tapes. They found a lot of use for measuring tape in the Block Center.

Body Parts

This week we talked about body parts that we can't see because they are inside of our body. They are very important. One of the important organs is the brain that is like a central computer of our body. There is all learning and thinking is happening. It is where our memory get stored. Brain is connected with all other parts of the body. It knows what every part does. We did a little experiment in the class. Morah asked Nosson to stand up. Then she asked friends if they know who it is. Friends answered without hesitation. Morah explayned that eyes send a message to the brain and brain tells them who it is. Then Morah asked everyone to close their eyes and try to recognize their friend listening to his or her voice. Friends did an exellent job recognizing Alan and Ron. How could they do it? Morah said that friends' ears send message to their brain and it tells them who it is.

Another important part is a Heart. It is a strongest part of our body. It pumps blood to all parts of our body day and night. Our heart size  is a size of our fist. There are a pair of lungs in our body that are protected by a rib cage. When we breath in our lungs become big, when we breath out they become small.

Kidneys are bean shaped parts of the body. There are two kidneys. Some of the food what we eat is not used by our body. We call it body waste. Kidneys help our body to clean the waste. Other part of the body that helps to get rid of body waste is Liver. In the class we practiced to recognize parts of the body and find their right location.
To learn parts of the body go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvOzimJY_o8

Fay Sofis

This week we learned the letter fay sofis. Fay sofis, like all the "sofis" letters, only comes at the end of a word. You can make a fay sofis by making a big line across, an extra line that comes down and a small curve coming down from the top.

Parshas Shemini

Parshas Shemini

This week’s parsha talks about the laws of Kosher. Kosher is a term that refers to food that is good for Jewish people to eat. There are different types of food in this world, some which are healthy for our bodies, like vegetables, meat, fruit and breads. There are other types of food that is less healthy like candy and fried foods. Kosher food is food that is healthy for our neshama (soul.)

Parshas Shemini discusses the different animals that are Kosher. You can notice that Kosher animals are generally peaceful animals that eat plants, not other animals. One of the reasons for this is that what we eat spiritually affects how we act. We want to be peaceful and happy just like the peaceful animals that we eat.

Hashem tells Moshe to tell the Jewish people about the animals that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten. Kosher animals, have two signs: they chew their cud and have split hooves. Kosher fish must have fins and scales. We are given a list of the non-kosher birds, and a list of four types of locusts which are kosher; the Torah tells us that all other insects are not kosher.

Kosher Song:

All the animals that I eat chew their cud and have split feet.

Kosher meat just can’t be beat, I want only Kosher!

So every time I’m in the market, I only buy food with a kosher sign on it,

It’s good for me and it’s good for you,

And what do you know? Hashem loves it too!

This is the way we celebrate Purim!

Look at us! The Torah, a Bumble Bee and a Lady Bug!

Pharo, Indian girl and a Beatle guy

Firemen, Boxer, King and Pirate

Hawii man (Morah Minna) is telling the Purim Story

Give a tzedakah!

Give Shlochmones :)

Happy Purim!