Slime and Shabbos!

This week in the Green Room we made slime!  Everyone enjoyed mixing the ingredients and choosing colors and glitter to decorate it.  Vella especially loved adding the water color to make the slime turn yellow.  She added more and more until it was the shade he wanted.  Ben and Shimmy especially loved stirring the slime and watching it get thicker and stickier!  Nosson and Shira put the slime on their face and pretended they were tatties with beards and mustaches.

We also practiced our math with pipe cleaners and noodles by stacking noodles and then counting them.  We asked the friends which pipe cleaner had more noodles and which had less.  They understood that the higher stack of noodles was more and the smaller stack was less.  We proved this by counting and saying "five is greater than three" and "three is less than five".

In dance class we enjoyed teaching Mr. Sam our new verses to the "Hello" song.  We taught him that Shalom means hello in Hebrew and Howdy means hello in Texas!  

In dramatic play the kids continued to explore the themes of Shabbat.  Ben and Shimmy made kiddush and Nechama and Shira lit Shabbos candles.

We also made 3D paint this week which was super fun!  Ben noticed that when he mixed yellow and blue it turned to green.  He said "I'm making green paint!"

Shimmy used all the colors and made a beautiful rainbow.

This week we learned all about the parsha.  Please ask the following questions to your children at the Shabbos table:

1. What is the name of this week's parsha? (Vaeira)

2. Where does the parsha take place? (Mitzrayim/Egypt)

3. The Jews were slaves in Mitzrayim, what did Moshe and Aaron say to Pharaoh? (Let my people go!)

4. What did Aaron's stick turn into? (A snake)

5. What did the snake do? (Ate up all the Egyptian's snakes!)

6. When Pharaoh wouldn't let the Jews go free what did Hashem send to Mitzrayim? (10 makos)

Name as many of the 10 makos as you can with your children.  They will tell you all about the water that turned to blood and the nasty boils that appeared on their skin.  Tamar was especially enthusiastic about the boils on their hands and she said "they had booboos on their hands!!!!!!"  We discussed the concept of slavery very briefly and talked about how lucky we are to be free.  Ben said "I am free. I am free and a half."  Nosson told his friends that all the bad people from this parsha were killed on Pesach!

We look forward to seeing you at our school's Shabbos dinner!  Our class made delicious carrot cake muffins that we hope you enjoy!

Shabbat Shalom,

Morah D and Morah Shoshana