Time traveling

B"H

When learning the story of Purim, it only seems fit to go back in time to the city in which it happened! Especially when we are so lucky that we have it right here in Gan Chaya! :)

Welcome to the city of Shushan!

The King's palace

Mordechai's house

 *Notice the upper level in the palace :)*

 Cleaning the road before a busy day in shushan :)

 "Mordechai"

 Learning Torah in Mordechai's house

 On a journey back in time

 We have arrived in Shushan!

Talking to King Achashverosh in the palace

The city that we built

B"H

Purim is in the air here in Gan Chaya! In the process of preparing and exploring this fun holiday, we decided to make our very own city of Shushan! We already have a suficient amount of wood from what we have collected. Plain wood was not going to do for this beautiful city! We first painted the wood and then got busy with building and creating. 

Painting our wood

Let the building begin!

We made a special Persian rug to put on the floor of Mordechai's house

Itta writing the sign for Mordechai's door

Happy Birthday Trees! :)

B"H

This Wednesday was the tree's birthday! How exciting! Well, how do you celebrate the birthday of the trees? After having a brief class meeting, we came up with a plan and right away put it into action. We decided that we should have a birthday party outside with our friends from the younger class and serve special fruit!

Our brief class meeting

Our friends wanted to first sketch out their design before actually making the platter

Arranging the dry fruit

Itta and Chloe chose to make a pattern with the green and purple grapes

Setting up...

Singing with our friends

Look at our beautiful platters!

We each served a friend in the younger class exactly what they asked for

Getting the right amount :)

Letter of the week- Chof!

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We practiced shaping our Chof out of the wooden blocks that WE sanded down and painted!

When Chloe and Menachem realized they did not have enough blocks to make the large chof, they thought of a solution and used branches! Great improvising!

Painting tree bark for Tu B'Shvat

B"H

Over time, we have collected a nice amount of tree bark. Being that we are now in our Tu B'Shvat unit and have been learning about trees, we decided to paint some tree bark.

We found wood pieces to paint as well!

Berry count

B"H

Being that our friends in Gan Chaya have been thoroughly enjoying outdoors, we moved along with them. There is so much they can gain while outside, we figured we could put out some things to trigger their curiosity and get them thinking.

Our friends enjoy collecting little red berries that fall from one of the trees outside. We put out numbered jars so that they can organize them into the proper number in each jar as they collected.