Slippery Business!

Just how did the Jewish people get the oil for the Menorah?

 

 

 

 

 

The children in Gan Bet experienced olive-oil-making for themselves...

 

 

 

 

 

...as they touched, squeezed, and spilled olives and their oil into cups and on the tables...

 

 

Look at the oil that Anna squeezed from her olives!

 

We also experimented with oil and paint and water...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

What a slippery, beautiful mess!





The Cream of the Crop Rises to the Top!

Just where does that especially pure olive oil for the Menorah come from?
The children in Gan Bet put their senses to work in a very "hands-on" experience, playing in a sensory bin full of different types of olives, oil, and water.

The olives bobbed up and down and slid through their hands as they experienced the slippery mixture...

The children had an idea to squeeze the olives...

And look at how that slimy, green oil rose to the top!

What a curious and involved way for the children to experience some of the properties of olive oil!