Sunday School News
We started the day with dance and music. We sang Chanukah songs, and practiced our song and dance for the lights and miracles service this Friday night.
In circle time we watched a video about the Chanukah story. We discussed the story, and how Judah Maccabee and his small army defeated Antiochus and his very large army. I asked the kids if they knew the word that meant being able to choose your religion, where you live, where you go to school, etc? Tyler answered "Freedom".
We discussed what freedom meant to the Jewish people at the time of the Chanukah story. We realized that no matter what freedom is one of the most important things to have.
The tell me tube item yesterday was a potato, which was a perfect introduction to the story The Borrowed Chanukah Latkes.
We created some beautiful Chanukah place mats. As the kids finished their place mats they were able to build their own version of the holy temple, complete with a menorah and a stuffed Judah Maccabee. We also worked on a Menorah floor puzzle and did a pretend Chanukah with our holiday play set, dishes, and fake food.
We wrote about Freedom in our Torah journals. Even though the Chanukah story happened way after the Torah we thought this important topic still needed a page in our journals.
Yesterday's Hebrew letter was zayin. We worked on our worksheets, and made zayins out of Twizzlers.
In between all of that we had a great service with Rabbi Eitan, and had a wonderful pretend Shabbat.
Not only do the kids love the challah, but they are memorizing the Shabbat blessings.
There was so much Chanukah singing going on yesterday that while the kids were working on their place mats Ethan started singing and then one by one they all just joined in.
We had an awesome day!
Friday night is our Lights and Miracles Service,
I hope to see you there.
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