Chanukah

This week in the purple room we learned about Chanukah and played many Chanukah games.
We learned all about why we play dreidels and how it helped the Jewish people learn Torah. Our friends decorated foam dreidels and tried to make their own dreidels out of clay. Our friends learned that the letters on the dreidel stand for Nes Gadol Haya Sham which mean a big miracle happened there, but if you live in Israel the dreidel has a Pey instead of a Shin because in Israel the dreidel letters stand for Nes Gadol Haya Po which means A big miracle happened here.

On Wednesday and Thursday our friends started making their own menorah that they can use during Chanukah to light the candles. We started by sanding down the wood to make it smooth and then we painted it.  We will be finishing them next week so you can light them at home with your families!

Share time this week was all about the letter E.
Nosson brought in his egg toy, it was yellow inside and made sounds.
Vella brought in an Elton John CD that she found in her moms car.
Shimmy brought in an electricity box that he made with his papa, it lights up and has blue tape.
Nechama brought in her brother's elephant and an emergency room that her brother built with legos, the emergency room had a toilet and water.
Ben shared an elephant that he found in our class room, it was a baby and was hard.


Shabbat shalom
Morah D