Pajama Day!

This week in GAN!

Pajamas! Pajamas! Pajamas! The GAN class had a Pajama Day with lots of Hebrew vocabulary games. To start off, we read a few Jewish folk tales and after discussing some of the lessons, we used colored scarves to act out parts of the stories. One folk tale was about crazy King Antonius and his servants:

-One of his servants always brags about her terrific view from his quarters and makes all of the other servants jealous. He himself gets just as jealous hearing all the time about his servant's view, which sounds better than the one from his own bedroom! Confused and angry, he looks at the blueprints of the castle, consults his advisors and still can't figure out how one of his lowly servants has this view. Meanwhile, his servant has been describing this view to all of the people living in the kingdom. Finally, the king sends the servant away on a vacation so that he can sneak into the quarters and see this view for himself. Once he breaks in, he discovers the view is merely of a stone wall - gray and plain. Now even more confused, he asks his servant exactly what's been going on in his head. His servant kindly explains that he makes the best of his view by imaging the rolling waves of the ocean, the green valleys and setting sun. It makes his workday much easier and once he comes home, he enjoys the warmth of a lovely view. Inspired, the king finally takes down the stone wall so that his servants do finally enjoy a beautiful view from their quarters.

With this, we talked about the importance of thinking "outside the box" and making the best of anything, even a gray view. We did vocabulary review with parts of the body and Jewish holidays by labeling charts. We also pinned the vowel on the letter and made different letter sounds and combinations with Alef, Bet, and Resh. 

See you all next week!

Erica