Chazak Chazak V'Nitchazek! Gan Aleph Baked a Chocolate Cake!!

Did you hear the giggles of glee and shouts of joy coming from Room 207 today? Gan Aleph celebrated the culmination of learning Sefer Beraishit. The children were so excited to proclaim "Chazak Chazak V'Nitchazek!" when we completed learning about Parashat Vayechi. As a class, we made a list in Hebrew of the names of the important people we learned about. The children were divided into small groups to decorate life size characters from each of the parshiot. They traced each other to create a form on which to make these giant puppets. We sequenced the characters into a timeline for a character study of Sefer Beraishit. The children are collaborating on writing short anecdotes that explore what they learned from each. This is a great way to highlight the mitzvot and reinforce the good middot that we learned.

We baked a giant cake in the shape of a torah that we decorated with a Beraishit theme. We celebrated at an afternoon party where we sang the songs that we learned about each parsha story and danced to the song "Chazak Chazak V'Nitchazek" by Avraham Fried. The children felt so accomplished that they have learned so much Torah. They are already asking what will happen in Sefer Shemot!

Chazak Chazak Vnitchazeik

The children in Ganon Bet look foward each and every week to Parsha time. This is a time when the children enjoy singing songs, participating in felt story boards , reading books, and cooking or baking . Over the past few months the children have met Noach, Avraham, Sarah, Yitzchak, Rivka, Yaakov, Eisav, etc. Each and every one of these Torah personalities and stories has taught us about mitzvot and middot. As we reached the last Parsha in Sefer Bereishit, Parshat Vayechi, the children reflected back on all the people and stories they learned and decided to create their own Sefer Bereishit. Each child was assigned a Parsha to illustrate. They used pictures or objects related to the story as prompts for their work.