Chanukah is here!

Chanukah has arrived!

Abigail: The Kohen is lighting the menorah with the oil.

We spun dreidels in a block dreidel. 

We all win with gimmel.

We pretended to be Chanukah candles, slowly burning low.

We attempted to make green by pouring blue water into yellow oil.

Sroli: It's not turning green.

Morah Katie: Let's try it with paint. 

Natan: Blue and yellow make green but the oil is just sitting on top. It's not green.

We took our experiment to group. 

We explained what we did.

Morah Katie: Let's try it with red water and yellow oil.

Kids: It's not turning! It's not mixing.

Amelia: Oil and water don't like to mix.

Sroli: The oil always comes to the top.

Morah Katie: What would happen if we mixed the blue water and yellow oil, with the red water and yellow oil?
Sroli: It will turn brown.
Natan: A blackish color.
Abigail: It will be purple water.
Morah Katie: Why do you think that Abigail?
Abigail: Because when I was painting I mixed red and blue and it made purple.
We tried it, and we made a very dark black purple, with yellow oil rising to the top.
Evan: It is still not mixing.
Amelia:The oil and water just don't like to mix!
Natan: The oil always comes up.

We began to "light" our picture menorah.
Amelia: That's me and Clara.
Sroli: I see me an Natan.
Evan: I am wearing glasses.
Ari: I'm there too.
Morah Katie: I enjoy our picture menorah so much, so many happy smiles.
Amelia: And because it's made up of our faces!
Morah Katie: That is true.

We played dreidels.
We won pennies.
We put some in our tzedakah box, kept some for our banks, and traded some in for fruit gusher treats.