FESTIVAL FUN - K2 Model Seder!!

Its SEDER Time!!

All of the K2 friends proudly participated in our model seder on Tuesday March 31st.Everybody had their own seder plate, silver kiddush cup and of course - the hagadah which they created themselves.

We went through each page of the hagadah we created and sang all of the seder songs.

Even the one about the items which belong on the seder plate!!

At each step of the seder, different volunteers from K2 had a chance to read outloud from their hagadah. We are real experts at conducting the seder!!

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While Ilanacame up to light the candles, everybody held up
the candles from their hagadah and the girls practised the bracha.

As we sang the seder plate song, each friend pointed to the
items on the seder plate they decorated with Morah Valentina

The boys said kiddush - the bracha for the wine. Then the girls had a turn

Morah Sasha and Morah Dawn helpd everybody to wash their hands

Mark had a turn to lead part of the seder

We sang the Mah Nishtana song, Morah Sharon used puppets to help us remember the 4 questions

Rafael dressed up as King Pharoah and we went through the 10 plagues

We told the story of pesach in the step of magid - ending with the Dayenu song
when the Jewish people crossed the red sea on dry land because it split

More Hand washing

It is a mitzvah to point out the shank bone, matza and maror at the seder

More cups of wine - 4 in total. In our hagadah, we put a silver sticker on every page that required a refill

FESTIVAL FUN - PESACH

Creating our Hagadah covers

Throughout our entire unit on Pesach, we created a little more of our hagadah each day. The final product is what your child brought home for Pesach break. Our covers were decorated by using bleeding tissue paper, arranged in whichever way we wanted. The tissue paper was then sprayed with water and blotted. It made our hands dirty but it was so much fun. We also did the same for our parsha books. Each page in our hagadah was interactive. We spent lots of time learning about each step of the seder and all associated songs. Your child knows their way around their hagadah, please ask them to take your on a tour if you haven't already, and sing you all the songs or explain the scenes or steps represented on each page :)

Model Matzah Factory

Kindergarten visited the Model Matzah factory on Thursday March 26th. We had a chance to see the process of how matza is made right from the cutting and grinding of the wheat stalks all the way to baked matzah. Everybody had a chance to participate and make their own. While the matza was baking, we saw a live show about the 10 plagues and the exodus from Egypt. Many friends were selected as volunteers and actors in the performance. Even though a few of us had visited before, it was so much fun to see it and participate all over again. We had already learned about the process in school before we even came to the bakery, it was great to see what we already knew up close and in action.

The wheat stalks were husked so all the kernels could be ground up into flour.

A few friends had a change to turn the grinder and see real flour come out

We added water and made the dough

Everybody brought their rolled dough to the oven and had holes poked through it before it was baked into matza.

Festival Fun Flashbacks - PURIM DAY at Mazel

Purim Activities!!

We started off the day with a Kindergarten fashion parade, everybody had a chance to show off their awesome costumes and see what their friends dressed up as.

We went on to participate in 4 activities, each connected to a different one of the mitzvos of Purim

1. Hearing the Megilla: For this mitzva, we created Purim Puppets with Morah Batsheva to re-enact the story of the Purim as told in the Megillah
   
2. Eating a Purim Feast: We filled a plate of popcorn by doing a race. 2 players had a full plate of popcorn and a straw. The race was to use the straw to suck each piece of popcorn up and drop it onto the empty plate. The winner was the one who finished first.
   
3. Giving 2 'ready to eat' foods to a friend. Mishloach Manot: We each pulled a name out of a cup. Boy selected a boy and girl selected a girl. We packed a bag of mishloach manot and decorated it for a friend. There were delicious items to choose from on the table.
   
4. Matanot L'Evyonim' Giving a coin to 2 different charities: We played a game with Morah Tehilla where we had lots of coins to toss into different 'charities'. Some of them were quite tricky. It was like an obstacle course. Everbody waited their turn and tried to get as many coins as they could into the different tzedakah boxes.

Costume Pageant Parade

Packing Mishloach Manot

Decorating mishloach manot

Making Purim Character Puppets

Getting ready for the Charity Coin Toss

Everybody waited their turn and had a chance to toss coins into the boxes

Filling our plates for the Purim Feast