Challah-taschen!

At the end of last week, the Levana class decided to get creative with our Challah dough.  On Thursday and Friday, we took small amounts of the delicious challah dough and pressed it into circles.  We put some strawberry jelly in the middle, folded 3 corners, and made delicious Challah-taschen!  Some children decided to leave their hamentaschen plain, but most ate their delicious Shabbat bread with jelly.  What a delicious way to celebrate Purim and Shabbat!

Samantha rolls her dough her dough into a circle.

Abby and Hayley press their dough flat, and scoop in the jelly.

Sydney carefully folds 3 corners.

Yum!

Giving and Receiving

 

The spirit of Purim overflowed into the hallways, offices and classrooms of TBSCC, as makers of mishloach manot prepared and delivered their gifts. The Levana children enjoyed a visit from their Unicorn neighbors, who came to share their usual high spirits and good cheer, along with some delicious hamentaschen. We also spent a few moments delivering our goodies to Rachel and Eber. While we were on the playground, the Tel Aviv children surprised us with a visit and some wonderful misloach manot that they had prepared for us. We really loved our visits with all of these generous friends.

Rainbows make Hamantaschen

Sophie's mother, Mrs. Sherman, was very kind to come and

teach us how to make the special hamantaschen cookies we

enjoy at Purim. We loved making them and then eating them

for snack today. Thank you so much for your help, Mrs. Sherman!

Rainbows make Hamantaschen

Sophie's mother, Mrs. Sherman, was very kind to come and

teach us how to make the special hamantaschen cookies we

enjoy at Purim. We loved making them and then eating them

for snack today. Thank you so much for your help, Mrs. Sherman!

Preparing for Purim!

Sam hard at work with his rolling pin.

Max carefully making a triangle.

Jared pressing his dough into a circle.

Maddie joined us with her own Purim costume creation.

Nathan chooses chocolate chips as his filling.

Modeling the triangle.

With the sound of groggers coming from all around, the Unicorns are definitely feeling the spirit of Purim!  The children in the classroom have been busy for the past few days making the teachers Purim costumes, and today, we made hamantaschen!  The students of the Unicorn class rolled up there sleeves and started pounding out the dough, making circles, then filling it up with delicious choices! Everyone worked diligently as they started to form the triangles.  This prompted some inquisition from some children at the table, and we started talking about why we make them into triangles.  With some help from some Purim books, we were able to look at Haman, and see if we could find triangles on either him or his clothing.  After our investigation, we realized they are represent his tri-cornered hat!

Making Hamentaschen

In celebration of Purim, we made some yummy hamentaschen.
First you flatten the dough into a circle, as Micha is showing us.
Next you add the filling. Elias is putting apricot jam into the middle of the hamentaschen he is making. Finally, you pinch three corners to
create the triangle shape.
Put into the oven for about 15 minutes
until golden brown.
Best of all, take a bite and enjoy. Bennett is enjoying his.

Introducing Purim

We'll be celebrating Purim soon after we return from our February vacation. The Levana children are enjoying the story of Queen Esther as we talk about her courage, and play with puzzles depicting the symbols of Purim. Haman, with his three-cornered hat, is easily identified and always captures the interest of the children. They love the yellow triangles on our classroom rug, and today had fun tracing and cutting out triangles of various sizes and from various materials. They are already looking forward to cutting cookie dough into triangles to form hamentaschen.

A Playful Purim

The Rainbows played a great Purim game called Pin the Jelly on the Hamentaschen this morning. It was fun to choose a favorite jelly flavor and spin around before trying to find the hamentaschen to attach it to! We also watched as the puppets told the story of Purim in our new puppet theater. Everyone had a chance to try out the puppets themselves. Our newly completed groggers made loud noises as we shook them on hearing Hamen's name throughout the story.