Oh Chanukah, Oh Chanukah

The Green Room had a great week recapping the Chanukah story and making Chanukah gifts and goodies!  On Monday we began working on our gifts to give out at Dreidels and Dads.  We asked each friend different questions about their Dad and their answers were priceless!  Nechama said, "My Tatty is good at balancing his phone on his head" so Nosson pointed out: "I'm really good at balancing a slipper on my head!"  We also made our Chanukah menorahs that we can light at home during the holiday!  On Tuesday we decorated our plaques for Dad with pom poms and stones.  We also read more Chanukah stories.

Please ask your children the following questions about Chanukah:
1. Who did the Jews defeat in battle? (The evil king/King Antiochus)
2. When the Jews were rebuilding the Beis Hamikdash they found enough oil to last for how many days? (1)
3. How long did the oil actually last? (8 day)
4.  What game do we play on Chanukah? (Dreidel)
5.  What do the letters on the dreidel stand for? (a great miracle happened there)
6. What special foods do we eat on Chanukah? (Latkes and Sufganiot/Donuts)
7.  Why do we eat these foods on Chanukah? (Because they are fried in oil-just like the oil from the miracle)

On Wednesday we had so much fun with our moms and dads at Dreidels and Dads.  We ate latkes, decorated plates, played human dreidel, and gave our Dads our gifts.  We hope you had a great time too!  We made delicious sufganiot as well.  Everyone really loved mixing the ingredients, squishing the dough, and then making shapes.

We hope you have a wonderful holiday break and Happy Chanukah!
Morah D and Morah Shoshana

Green Room working on menorahs

Friends working on gifts for their dads

Getting reading to make sufganiot

Nechama working on her menorah

Vella and Nechama rolling out the dough

Nosson working on his menorah

Shimmy measuring ingredients

Shimmy squishing his dough

Shimmy working on his menorah

Shira working on her menorah

Vella making her menorah