Gan Chamesh Newsletter
A Peek At The Week In
The Blue Room
Candle‐lighting: 5:17 PM Parshas Mishpatim Oh Purim, Oh Purim, The Holiday of Joy….. We are full swing into the Purim story. The yeladim have been so artistic in helping to create Shushan Town ,and the five favorite Purim characters. As you walk into our classroom you will see hamantashen hanging from our ceiling, masks on the bulletin, and our entire kitchen area transformed into the exciting town of Shushan. Come visit so that you can get transported hundreds of years back into Jewish History… The Purim Story Every day the yeladim get entertained by a marvelous Purim puppet show. Many, many years ago there was a king named Achashverosh. He invited the Jews to a party but Mordechai Hatzadik told the Jews not to go because there would be non kosher food and wine and Hashem would get very upset if they went. The Jews didn’t listen and went to the royal party. At the party king Achashverosh wanted Vashti to come show off how beautiful she was. When she looked into the mirror and saw pimples and a tail too she refused to come! Wicked haman‐boooo told Achashverosh to get rid of Vashti. The next morning when the king awoke and realized that Vashti was gone he became very sad. Haman told the king to make a contest and choose the most beautiful girl to become the new queen. Hadassa , who was a cousin of Mordechai was hiding in the house, she didn’t want Achashverosh to find her. But the guards came to get her:"Don’t tell the king that your are Jewish and now we will change your name from Hadassa to Esther. When the king saw Esther he chose her to be the new queen. Letter Samach Samech has a big smiley face and he says sa sa sa. Thanks to Tova for the super saemch words. The sabone (soap) smelled so good! It inspired us to paint with colored sabone. We loved the siddur ,especially because the chazan of our class gets to daven with a siddur every day. The sus (horse) was so cute and tiny. We made a big sus that we will be using later on in our Purim story. The color of this week was segole (purple), we used segole at almost every center, what fun! Our jelly in the pretend hamantash was segole, our samachs were covered in segole stickers, the megilla paper towel rolls were segole. Even our king Achashverosh has a segole costume. Songs of the Week Once there was a wicked wicked man and Haman was his name sir, He would have hurt all of the Jews but they were not B”H
Friday February 203th 2009 21th Shevat ,5769 to blame sir Oh today will merry merry be‐3x and nosh some hamantashen Nosh Nosh a hamantash lets nosh a hamantash now sqeeze and roll the dough with me ,pinch it up and you will see Hamans hat was just like that lets nosh a hamantash now. King Achashverosh made a great feast ,he told his wife Vashti to come she had many pimples a hundred at lease and said" I cant join in the fun" the king got so angry he said to his guards "Take her iIdont want her shes mean" and from all the maidens Shushan town had Esther became the queen Haman told everyone "bow down to me" but Mordechai said" that I’ll never do I bow only to Hashem elokim and Im so proud to be a Jew!" Travel Mania We know that you won’t believe it bit we visited Russia this week. Morah Susy came into our class with her Travel Mania suitcase and she had so many fun things inside. We got to see fur hats and Russian dolls but our favorite was definitely the Matrushka doll, it was a surprise doll and little dolls came out of the bigger ones tummy. We know how to say Da, Niet and DasVidanya! Please join us in dancing the kazatska! Shabbbos Party Thank you to our Shabbos Aba Meny Schuss and our Shabbos Ima Shayna Popack for the yummy Shabbos treats. Mazel Tov! A very Happy Hirthday to Chaim and Rafi!!! PLEASE SEND IN SHOE BOXES FOR A PURIM PROJECT FOR NEXT WEEK!! Have a great shabbos, The Blue Room Morahs Reminders • Tuesday February 24th Crazy Hat Day • Thursday March 5th Dress Up Day • Friday March 6th 5 Senses Purim Carnival