After an awesome thanksgiving week where our purple room friends learned all about what being thankful means and enjoyed a wonderful thanksgiving meal with the whole CJP family we returned to a new and exciting week.
This week in the purple room we have been learning all about Chanukah. Our class was decorated with dreidels, menorahs, candles and many different Chanukah stickers and books. Chanukah is coming up and all our friends are very interested in why we celebrate Chanukah. We learned about the story of Chanukah, that there was a very mean king named Antiochus, who didn’t let the Jews learn Torah and he made the Bais Hamikdash very dirty. We played the game of dreidel and learned that the Jews also played dreidel when they were in the cave. The Jewish people would secretly learn Torah and if they saw Antiochus' soldiers coming they would quickly hide the books and play dreidel.
Our friends can’t wait to eat all the latkas and sufganiot, as we learned that we eat food that is cooked in oil. This is because during the time of Antiochus the Jews only had enough oil for 1 day, but Hashem made a miracle and the oil lasted for 8 days and nights.
We also introduced a new Montessori math work to our classroom, and we have been learning how to make the number 11-19 in a tangible way.
Looking forward to more Chanukah learning and preparation next week!
Morah D
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