Purim Sameach!!

This past weekend we celebrated Purim here in Panama with some friends.



Purim is a fun Jewish Holiday just like Hannukah. It is a celebration based on the book of Esther in the Bible during the time of the Medes and Persians about 500 years before Yeshua (Jesus). (Purim is usually in Feb. or March every year).

We had a wonderful time. We played lots of games; bean bag toss, musical chairs, hit our Haman Pinata, and had a costume contest! There were lots of prizes and yummy food for everyone.


This is a picture of everyone with their cast of characters on spoons for our Purim Readers Theater and play.

Here they are:  King Xerxes, Haman, Mordecai, Esther (Hadassah), Queen Vashti

Our huge Hamantashen cookies with brownie centers.  mmm- delicioso

Party Favors:)

Our Haman Pinata!  Boy, was this a blast!  Candy was flying everywhere & he lasted a really long time... everyone got a turn!  It was hilarious watching the kids diving for the candy:)

Another picture with the girls in their pretty Queen Esther style Dresses.  Each one had their own perception of what a Queen Esther should look like:)

Do you like the rain boots & butterfly wings?  She walked around feeling so pretty in her outfit!  So cute!

If you haven't done anything for Purim yet you should check this out!

Everything You Need To Have a Purim Reader´s Theater!  It's not to late to learn some history about Purim and have some fun:)  Just click on the picture and it will take you over to some more details in my TPT store.

If you didn't see our Reader's Theater video you can go see it here.

I used my Party Planner and I must say I was much more relaxed being organized!  I was able to sit

back and enjoy all the fun:)  If you are planning a party, I would definitely suggest using something to help you get organized.  It helps take away a lot of the stress and makes your party become more of what you envision it to be!  Just click on the picture to learn more about what is included in my Party Planner!

If you didn't grab the freebie for the planner, hop back over and grab it here!

I hope & pray you have a wonderful Purim holiday season with your family & friends!

Purim Sameach!!!

A Flash Back of our Week with a few FREEBIES!

Where has this week gone?  It sure did go by fast!

Here is what we did this week with the little guys...my K - Firsties:)

We have activity baskets to keep little hands and minds busy!  I change it up a lot but here are some snap shots of our activities this week.
This is our activity basket with numbers 1 - 8 on this side.

We then turn it around for numbers 9-16 on the other side.

 I created a little activity basket schedule with  numbers and Velcro.  This is the cute little Activity Basket number card to keep them on track.  They Velcro their number to their card when they are done with each basket.

This is what it looks like when they are done putting all their numbers on. 

( If you didn´t grab the numbers for free before you can grab them here  and here now for a free download.)

These cards are great because they help them learn number recognition and numerical order.

Our first Activity of the day was our  Spoon Literacy Pack. This is from  our Arctic Penguins unit.

If you haven´t seen these you can check them out here.  They are really fun especially if you decide to use plastic spoons:)

Next up a DIY cd craft - activity for Hebrew.

This was fun to put together ...all you need are brads, stickers, scissors, some cut up letters, and glitter foam!

 
 This is the  outside of the cd case after we decorated it.

 On the inside we added glitter and stickers and then wrote the cursive and block Hebrew letters in the hearts.  We also added a spinner!  We used this for Hebrew letter recognition for the little guys. For the older ones we used it for Hebrew block to cursive letter recognition and matching.

I used an old Hebrew workbook we had and cut up the letters. Then we played a matching game...matching Hebrew block letters to cursive... spin the spinner to see which letter you will match up!

 Here it is the completed DIY Hebrew letters Block to cursive game made out of a cd holder!
Then we did some domino math.

 I love domino manipulatives, don´t you?
Next in our baskets was some science fun with baking soda and colored vinegar.  Using the eyedropper to make the chemical reaction and then see the colored carbon dioxide bubbles was fun.

 

 

So much fun we had to take it outside to make a model volcano!

Success!  It worked:)

I love to see their amazement when they see this done the first time.  We´ve done this a lot with the older kids.  But, this was a first for the little guys and they really enjoyed it.  In fact we have no baking soda or vinegar left in the house now- lol!

Do you have a traveling classroom calendar?  We have one in English and Spanish!  

If you haven´t seen these in my store hop on over and pick one up.  Just click on the picture and go!   They are really pretty!


This is what we did with our calendar.  Since we have been traveling, I've made a calendar that is portable...In English, Spanish, & Hebrew  too!  It is an easy DIY  calendar.  When we are done I just fold it up and slip it behind the couch.  This is what ours looks like.



 I couldn´t find any poster board here!  So I settled for cardboard & painted it with gold spray paint!
We have a season match set I made to go with our calendar time.  It is in English & Spanish.

I made it  color coded to help with  matching the season either in Spanish and English.

 
A little bit more of a close up on our calendar...

I also added the moon phases to help us  understand the Ancient Biblical Lunar Calendar next to our Solar Gregorian calendar.

We also have the months of the year in English and Spanish.
 We use colorful paper clips to attach and review the months in both languages.

Almost everything has velcro so that it can be an interactive calendar for the kids.

Here we are matching the English month to the Spanish month.

Other things included in our activity boxes are our Writing Activities.

 We like to use  handwriting without tears along with  our student notebooks.  

I love to use Handwriting Without Tears for my K - Firsties.  We especially like the stamp & write
magnetic board for writing numbers.    Some days we will use chalk, some days magnets, some days writing with chubby pencils or crayons.  The variety makes it fun.  They also enjoy using the wooden letters.



I guess I've been in organization mode lately first the giveaway and now planning a Purim party...:)
So I made something versatile to help organize my party planning.  There is always an excuse to have a party, right?  Here's my newest release.

This freebie is attached to the download preview!  Hope you can use it too!

and for giveaways...


Talk to you soon:)



Now it´s your turn...How was your week?




There are a few great giveaways going on - hop on over and join in!

Fun with puppets, poetry, & mud!

We just finished our Ancient Hebrew - Aleph - Unit Study

We´ve been working on it for a little over a month...

 I really think my favorite highlights were all the hands on activities that we did.

We made puppets for a Dramatic Play  to go along with our Rhyming Poem ....all the poets here helped make it...I´m putting it in my freebies...make sure you  go read it there:)

We also did some Acrostic Poems for Mom & Dad (Ima & Aba)

They were really cute:)

We had a little bit of mud construction one day...

we´re not sure how all the ancients lived but this definitely could have been one style:)

 The memory cards & lap book were fun too...

The girls made some cute frames from the paper scraps...

I will be making some more with every letter to add to them...

It was really fun for the 2 youngest to pull out the measuring tape and ruler and go to town measuring things & drawing lines!  

They felt so big like they were doing some really complicated math stuff:)

they also had fun using our homemade scale...alot of things got weighed and measured in our house!

 We have also been practicing our writing in our notebooks

 

 and have added our ancient letter flap book

 and accordion fold equally yoked flap book...

We are really looking forward to learning more ancient languages...

 my older boys wants to add  to the Egyptian & Hebrew

 - Ancient Sumerian, Greek, Babylonian, & Latin!

 Aren´t they aspiring linguists & archaeologists!

 We´ll see...I always want them to learn more, challenging them and making it interesting.

 We´ve really enjoyed making things to go along with our curriculum, one fun project was making the Ancient Land of the Hebrews hidden letters & word pictures Drawing. 

 You can download it on the freebies page!  You will learn more than think:)

Another favorite part has been our word pictures...I can´t help but look at Hebrew words now and analyze them and try to figure out their word pictures    ...who thought Ancient Hebrew would be so fun!

If you´ve done any thing that you´ve enjoyed studying the ancients, Mesopotamia and / or Egypt I would love to hear about it...

I am selling these at my TPT store.  

If you would like to add these to your curriculum you can go there to purchase them or just click on the pictures above your interested in.  

 Don´t forget to go to my freebies page for those too! 

 I really wish I would have made these sooner...they would have been great for Shabbat School, Sunday School, and our Bible Studies too!  I hope you enjoy them as much as we have...

Many Blessings to you in your studies!  Baruchim Chaverim!