Hope you had a wonderful Pesach with our families. We are so happy to be back!
We have a very big birthday to celebrate in a week. Whose? Israel’s! The country is turning Sixty nine years old. The yeladim pointed out that the number sixty nine is very big. “Like an adult like you Morah Lilli!” said Eli. He was right, I am an adult.
We are starting our focus on the city of a Yerushalayim. The yeladim knew that the big wall in the city is called the Kotel. We explained to the them that people come from all over the world to daven there. They also put notes in the wall to ask Hashem for things like keeping healthy, having a child or davening for someone who is sick. We are creating our very own kotel in the Art Studio. The yeladim painted many lunch bags gold. We will be stuffing them to make them look like stones. We will glue them on the butcher paper hanging on the wall, and it will really look like we have the kotel in our school!
We enjoyed making Anna’s birthday cake. Anna put all the ingredients in and the yeladim took turns mixing the batter! Cannot wait for the Friday celebration!
We have the Israeli flag hanging in our kitah. We noticed that the colors were blue and white so the children wanted to make special necklaces that they will wear in honor of Yom Ha’atzmaut. We will use blue and white beads. We reviewed what a pattern can look like, and the yeladim tried to make a pattern with their beads. They will be so cute to wear.
Next? On to the country of Israel. We can’t wait to explore it!