Hashem is always there.

Morah Katie: How does the sun feel? 

Scout: Good. 

Amelia: I like it. It makes me happy.

Morah Katie: How do the rocks feel?

Scout: Some are hot, some are cold.

Morah Katie: Which ones are hot?

Scout: The ones in the sun. The sun is making them hot.

Amelia: Hot like the matzah.

Anton: Moving this is hard work like the Jews in Egypt.

Morah Katie: How did the Jewish people feel when they were slaves for King Pharaoh?

Scout: Sad. 

Natan: It made them have tears.

Morah Katie: When you are feeling sad, does it seem like things are always SUPER hard, things NEVER go the way you want?

Kids:YES.

Morah Katie: Me too.  Sometimes it can be hard for me to remember what Hashem said to Moshe- Remember I will be there with you. You won't see Me, because I am Hashem, but I am always with you, taking care of you.

Did the Jewish people stay in Egypt, working hard and tired all the time?

Gracie: No. King Pharaoh finally let the Jewish people go and then they were so happy.

Efraim: Hashem and Moshe got the Jewish people to go.

To help us remember what Hashem said to Moshe, we went for a nature walk.

Monday was a grey foggy morning. 

Morah Katie: What colors do you see?

Efraim:  White, yellow, green.
Morah Katie: How do those colors make you feel?
Sroli: Happy.

Abigail: A purple flower! 
Morah Katie: How does the color purple make you feel?
Zim: Happy!

Morah Katie: What is growing on the tree? 

Efraim: New leaves!

Morah Katie: How does that make you feel?

 Judah: Happy!

Morah Katie: Who is causing the new leaves to grow? 

Sroli: Hashem!

Morah Katie: Why are we seeing these bits of color on a grey day?
Abigail: Hashem put them there.

Tuesday was a sunny morning.
Sroli: My Shadow!
Morah Katie:Why are you seeing your shadow?
Sroli: The sun!
Morah Katie: Yesterday it was grey and foggy, why is it sunny today?
Scout: Hashem.

Sroli: It doesn't stay grey forever!
Morah Katie: Why not?
Scout: Hashem.
Efraim: The sun comes back.
Morah Katie: What is that I hear?
Sroli: It 's a bird! It's a bird!
Morah Katie: How does a bird song make you feel?
Natan/Sroli: Happy!

Morah Katie: Why does Hashem send us such wonderful things to see and to hear?

Efraim: To be happy and do nice things.

Zim: To remind us Hashem is always with us.

Efraim: Look. On the tall grass, sparkly like diamonds!

Ari: I see it! I see the diamonds.

Morah Katie: Are they really diamonds?

Scout: Water drops.

Sroli: Shiny rain water drops like diamonds from Hashem.

Morah Katie: When we are struggling and feeling grumpy is Hashem with us?

Gracie: Yes. Hashem, He is always there.

 

Morah Katie: How does a Seder dinner help us celebrate and remember Passover?

Zim: The food.
Gracie: The story. 

Sroli is sorting ingredients for challah and matzah.

Morah Tzivie: Charoset is made from apples...
Sroli: NUTS AND WINE!
Abigail: I like chariest. It is sweet.
Morah Tzivie: The charoset reminds us of?
Judah: The bricks they used to build.

Morah Tzivie is offering salt water for dipping.
Morah Tzivie: Why do we dip our vegetables in salt water?
Zim: To remember the tears.

Natan is smelling the bitter maror.
Natan: It makes my tears come!

Judah: Oh! 

Isaac and Abigail can smell the bitter maror.
Isaac/Abigail: Oh wow oh!

Gracie: I am going to try the bitter maror.
Morah Tzivie: Why do we eat bitter maror?
Gracie: To remember how sad the Jewish people were.

Have a very happy Pesach!