Class Bet : "I Love Israel day" and Spring

Monday was 'I love Israel day'!

Israel has been an ongoing theme in our classroom this year.

We have discussed it during the Chanukah story, Tu B'shvat, and Mitzvah wall that is like the Kotel in jerusalem.
So, when 'I love Israel' day came around, we had a

lot of things to connect it to.

First, wee looked at the globe and saw the distance between New York and Israel. The children noticed the blue water in between and understood we can't drive there. So we decided to fly instead. Together we packed a suitcase, put on sunscreen and even received passports. Then they drew a self portrait in their passports, got on their plane and 'flew' all the way to Israel.

First stop was Eilat where the children could snorkel, 'swim' with the fish, and play at the beach.

Then there was Tzfat - where the children were treated to face or hand paint.

Thank you Tania for volunteering and being a part of our day.

In Tel Aviv, the children shopped at the 'shuk' and made fruit kabobs with the seven special fruits of Israel.

In Yaffo, the children squeezed oranges.

Next was the Kibbutz - where the children hung out in the barn, and milked a cow!

And in Jerusalem they wrote notes to Hashem and put them in the Kotel.

On Tuesday we got a special box in the mail. After predicting was what's inside the box, the children were delighted to open the box and find a cup with caterpillars.

Each day we make observations to see how much they change from one day to another, and on Friday one of the caterpillars made a Chrysalis around itself as the children were watching it.
We learned about each step of the Metamorphosis and now they are experiencing it.

Creating 3D caterpillar.

Each child made one and naturally they all look different. - each his own artist.

We used different kinds of pasta to do a Metamorphosis collage, using couscous, elbow pasta, shell pasta and bow tie pasta for each step of the process.