Week of April 1st

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This week was a busy and productive week.

Ask your child:

1) Who was the Important Person this week and what was their activity? (It was Benjamin. We made shadow puppets with stencils. The students had so much fun with them, they are still making more and more at choice each day this week!)

2) We are learning about Passover, learning how to sing The Four Questions and creating our own Haggadot for our Kindergarten Seder and your Seder at home. Ask your child what we use to clean the house before Passover begins. (We use a feather to dust for chametz crumbs!) 

3) We are learning the Order of the Seder song. Ask your child what other tunes we used to sing this song. (We sang it to a lot of different songs, including The Adams Family and The Macarena, among others.)

4) On Thursday we had a visit from the Matzah Factory. Ask your child how matzah is made. (The only ingredients are flour and water) and how many minutes it takes from start to finish (they do it in 18 minutes!)


Benjamin's Important Person Activity






We made shadow puppets!

































The Matzoh Factory
We learned how to make Matzoh!































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