Sophie's Birthday and the Costume Party Extravaganza

The end of the year has brought numerous birthdays and celebrations. At the beginning of

this week we celebrated Sophie S's birthday. At the same time, we had an end of the year costume party. After reading a book for Sophie's birthday and serenading her with a multilingual rendition 

of the birthday song, the Etzim busted into a spontaneous castle dance party! Projecting famous

fairy tale castles on the wall, we danced to the corresponding Disney songs. A fun time was 

had by all.  We are continuing our end of the year celebrations with Beach and Crazy

Hair day!

Step by Step Building

The Tel Aviv class has been hard at work building their recycled castle of Shushan! We have looked at books and pictures and seen different types of castles for around the world to help inspire us to build our own unique castle creation. Eli saw many castles with a draw bridge and was so excited to make one for our own castle. After poking some holes and using some string we created a real working draw bridge! Ezra and Max have been hard at work with the architecture of the structure. They keep adding new boxes with tape as places to store the treasure so that it will be safe from Haman! All of the class has spent time painting and decorating the castle. It has been a true teem effort. We also have been using our partner puppets that we created earlier this week to re-enact the Purim story in our new castle. Everyday it keeps changing and I can't wait to see what it looks like next week!

Building Together!

Today we started to work on our recycled castles! During the week before break the Tel Aviv class worked hard to decorate different recycled materials that they brought in from home and today we finally were able to use the materials together. The class had been wanting to build a castle and Purim is a great time to talk about castles, kings, queens, and their connection to our Jewish Tradition. The class worked together to place the boxes in a shape for the castles and they used tape to secure each piece into place. It was so neat to see their imaginations at work. Max decided to add a ladder with popsicle sticks and Eli made a slide out of a toilet paper role. Dylan looked through some books on castles and decided he wants to make a catapult for the castle tomorrow. It is a full class effort and the group is excited and proud of their creation!