Experiential learning about Pesach...

In order to bring Pesach to life, before going on to the playground yesterday, the Morahs explained that there would be a sensory table out with sand and water for the children to build bricks, just like the Yidden had to in Mitzrayim!
The children loved the experience. They worked together with Morah Nadine's class, enhancing the depth of the experience.


Here are snippets of the conversation between the 2 classes:
Morah: What are you building?
Batya Stern and Aviel: The Beis Hamikdash.
Eitan Henen: This is the wet sand to make bricks.
Morah: Who made bricks?
Eitan Henen: The Yidden.
Morah: Who told them to?
Eitan Henen: Pharaoh.
Zahara: Because King Pharaoh made them work very hard.

Simultaneously at another table this is the conversation that occurred:
Lior: We're making bricks.
Morah: Who had to make bricks?
Batya Waks: The Yidden.
Morah: Who told them to?
All: King Pharoh!
Lior: Bricks are rectangles.
Ora: Some are squares. A shape is a square.
Naama: I'm making a circle.
Ora: How we gonna make a square? You can make a square like this...(and she demonstrates with her hands!)

Batya Stern: Look at all the water.

Ora: Our brick gets dry. It gets water and it gets dry!