Dear Blue Room Families:

Shabbat Shalom! This week we incorporated Pesach activities into our learning invitations! Let’s take a look at what we learned!

The Seder Plate:

We ate some delicious matzah! We dipped celery, lettuce and parsley into water with salt. We ate hard boiled eggs. We also made Korech sandwiches out of matzah and lettuce. We explained to our friends that the vegetables dipped in the salt water symbolized the tears of the Jewish people when they were slaves. The hard boiled egg symbolizes the festival offerings brought to the Holy Temple and the Korech symbolizes the sacrifice of the meal they ate for Pesach. Most of our friends did not enjoy the veggies dipped in salt water, but our friend Luka said “This is yummy. Can I have more?” 

Preparing for Pesach

We introduced that cleaning before Pesach is very important and we should make sure to clean up all the bread crumbs. So we decided that cleaning our chairs with soap and water would be a helpful cleaning activity! Our friends enjoyed using various sponges to clean. Furthermore, we used water paint on paper and later painted on sandpaper. The sandpaper symbolized pyramids and how they might feel. I asked our friend Avi what it feels like and he said “sand.”

 Afikomen Fine Motor & Art Project

We ended our week with making afikomen bags that are being sent home! The children are very excited to be put their very own matzah inside of them! 

Shabbos Party with Friends!

We had a wonderful Shabbos party with our Peach Room friends! For the last three weeks we have been having Shabbos parties with them, and our blue room friends love “the little babies!”

We wish you all a beautiful Shabbos! We hope you are hearing all about what our friends have been learning for Pesach - they are LOVING it!

With love,

Morah Lexi & Morah Shaina