The HIGH HOLIDAYS so far

It is almost the festival of SUKKOS. Lots of children in Kindergarten shared their experiences of being in a succah before. We watched the Sukkah at our school being going up slowly day by down near the playground. It is great to see such wonderful decorations up.

We read the book 'The Sukkah that I built' and the class made model sukkahs today out of a manipulative of their choice. The options included ego, playdough, cubes or blocks. 

We had to make sure our sukkah had at least two walls

See photographs below of our creations

We read 'The Sukkah That I Built' on the carpet.

Before creating a model sukkah, we made an imaginary sukkah together, starting with the floor.

Yom Kippur
We learned that Yom Kippur is the time for say sorry for anything we have done to upset Hashem or the people around us. Hashem is the king of the whole entire world and on Yom Kippur he decides what will happen to everyone. 

We looked inside Morah Sharons magic bag to find a bath towel, a water bottle, perfume, slippers and hand cream. We talked about not wearing leather shoes, the adults not drinking or eating, not wearing perfume, cream or taking a bubble bath on the special day of Yom Kippur, so e can concentrate on Hashem only.

When we did Kappores with Rabbi Okunov, we knew that the rooster and hen he brought to school would take all our 'sorries' to Hashem.

We read the book 'The Hardest Word', where the Ziz bird learned that saying 'Sorry' can be very powerful. No matter how many mistakes we make, we can always try our best to make up for it and everything can be ok.

Morah Sharon dressed up like a King. Hashem is the King of the whole world and on Yom Kippur, he decides what will happen to everyone

We read the book 'The Hardest Word'. The Ziz bird  learned that saying Sorry' helps to fix up our mistakes.

Rosh Hashana
We only had 1 day of school before Rosh Hashana. It was our very first day of kindergarten too! 

We talked about the whole world starting a new year just like our class. In the cards we made for Mum and Dad, we drew a picture of our hopes for the coming year. The class came up with some special suggestions such as hoping for lots of friends, good health and a year filled with love and helping each other.

We tasted Apples dipped in honey, challah dipped in honey, pomegranate seeds and wrote down what everybody in the class liked to taste. We eat pomegranates on Rosh Hashana to remind us we want a a year as full of mitzvos as the seeds fill the pomegranate.

A special visitor came to blow the Shofar and we sang Happy Birthday to the whole WORLD. Rosh Hashana is the birthday of the world and it is now 5774 years old! 

Hope you enjoyed receiving the Shana Tova cards we made for you :) 

Morah Sharon uwrapped the birthday present. Inside was the 'whole world'. Rosh Hashana is the birthday of the whole world. It is now 5774 years old!

Our special visitor came to blow the shofar for us. We had a turn too!

We eat special food on Rosh Hashana to remind us that we want a sweet new year!

We tasted all the food from our lass Rosh Hashana table. We graphed which item each person enjoyed tasting.

We drew a picture of our hope for the new year and stuck it into the Shana Tova cards for Mum and Dad