GETTING READY FOR PESACH

Nursery 1 has started to prepare for the upcoming holiday of Pesach. We learned that a long time ago, the Jews were slaves in Egypt. Egypt had a king named King Paroh (Pharoh). He was not very nice to the Jews and made them work very hard. He did not even let them rest! When Moshe (Moses) was sent by Hashem to take them out, King Paroh said "No, No, No! I will not let them go!" We learned a song about King Paroh and his lack of kindness.

Oh listen, Oh listen, Oh listen King Pharaoh.

Oh listen, oh listen, please let my people go.

They work so hard all day,

They want to go away,

King Pharaoh, King Pharaoh, what do you say?

"No, no, no, I will not let them go".

"No, no, no, I will not let them go".

So Hashem sent 10 punishments to Paroh. After that he let the Jews go. We celebrate Pesach to remember this.

On Pesach, there are many things that we do differently. We have a Seder. At the Seder we set up a Seder plate, drink four cups of wine/grape juice and eat crunchy Matzo!

Our friends are decorating their Afikomen bags

Mark and Inna are decorating their Afikomen bags

Inna, Leah and Shimon are creating their own "Seder plate"

Mark is putting "Charoses" onto his Seder plate

We read a couple of books about Pesach. We also read a "Haggadah"

Starting to make our very own Haggadahs!

Tova Leah is working hard to make a border for her Haggadah cover page

Leah and Brandon concentrating on making their Haggadah cover page

 Our friends also got to help clean the classroom for Pesach, see a Seder table, and  pretend to do some of the steps of the Seder.

Our Seder table

Learning the steps of the Seder

Learning about the Afikomen. Mariella is a big helper!

Shimon is dipping his Karpas in saltwater

Benjamin is holding the middle Matzo that is customarily broken in half by "Yachatz"

Inna is reading our Haggadah

Manya is holding a Matzo sandwich for Korech

Naomi is holding the Afikomen.

Brandon is showing us the bitter Marror.

Benjamin is cleaning for Pesach.

 We also learned a song to help us remember all of the steps of the Seder.

Kadesh, Orchatz, Karpas, Yachatz.

Maggid, Rochtza, Motzi Matzo.

Marro, Korech, Shulchan Orech,

Tzafun, Berach, Hallel, Nirtza!