Lech Lecha

This week in the purple room we learned all about parshas Lech Lecha and the different faces we see every day. On Monday we learned who Avraham was and how he found Hashem. When Avraham was 3 years old he thought the sun was Hashem. At night he noticed that the sun disappeared and the moon appeared instead. He knew that the sun and the moon could not be Hashem. An angel came to Avraham and told him about Hashem.  Avraham became a very important person, he was teaching everyone about Hashem. To test Avraham, Hashem told him to leave his fathers house and go to a new land. Avraham listened to Hashem and left, but he wasn’t sure where to go. He saw all kinds of people on his way, and Hashem finally told him to settle in Canaan.  Avraham was very old and he didn't have any children.  Hashem promised him that he was going to have as many children as the stars in the sky and finally Avraham had a son named Yitzchak! Avraham was a very kind person and loved having guests that even when he had just had a bris, he still invited people to his tent.

We made self portraits this week, and learned about different kinds of faces and what they might look like when we are happy, sad, excited, or angry.  On Monday we made silly faces using rocks.  We also counted different parts of our face.  We counted our eyelashes, some of our friends had 90 lashes, while others only counted 10 or 20.

Our friends used jems to create sad faces, and used cubes to build robot faces.  This turned into building big robots and Nosson tried to create the tallest robot and make it the "Hashem robot".

On Thursday and Friday we used cut up papers and clay to make faces, and we had Morah Jac come to our class so that our friends can draw her face.

We also learned about other parts on our faces that we can’t see. We learned that lashes protect our eyes from dust and dirt, we also have wipers inside our eyes and every time we blink the wipers clean our eyes just like the wipers on a truck. Our noses also have little hairs inside that clean the air we breath in. Our friends tried breathing through our nose and mouth to see which was easier. The mouth won.
 
Have a good Shabbat!
Morah D