If you think getting ready for Pesach is hard... not at GEO. At GEO getting ready for Pesach means, crafts, fun problem solving challenges, action packed activity, drama and role playing. In addition, there's been the karate, robotics and moving along in Aleph Champ. Congratulations to Amit, our newest Brown Champ!
with the Solar Eclipse. We were at GEO Jewish Afterschool during peak time and got to experience this special event together. It was really exciting to see with the safety glasses, and also with special projectors of various kinds that we prepared. Afterwards we went inside to make edible eclipses showing how it works and then eating it.Monday with Morah Hadassah in the lab: The GEO Scientists were asked to be detectives today and join the PAPD (Passover Police Department) to solve some crimes and mysteries in the neighborhood. There was chametz hidden all over the building, wrapped in little foil (at some point the Chabad security was so good that they had cleaned it all up before we even got there). The neighbor grocery said he had lots of strange Matzah packages show up in the store, could they please come and check which ones are kosher for Passover?
How about the Matzah Mario’s, slow baked for maximum flavor, risen to perfection. Or the Pesach Shoppe’s Matzah boiled in under 18 minutes. Or Hole free Matzah - kids love it!
It took some careful examinations of lots of packages but the detectives were not fooled and gleefully destroyed all the fake ones.
Tuesday with Morah Elana: Students spent time learning how we get ready for Pesach with the 5 steps of cleaning and the items we need for the Seder table and seder plate. They role played burning Chametz and used an online game to learn about the Seder plate. They also used hidden pictures to figure the different names for Passover. Then the students created beautiful tissue paper decoupage seder plates!
Tuesday with Morah Hadassah: the kids started making Seder plates, and learned how to set up a Seder table - them helped out some animals who couldn’t find their Seder items or how to set it all up. Also some reading of the Exodus story.
Thursday with Morah Elana - Students created nice comfy pillows to use at the seder. They played a board game to review the Pesach story, and a 4 in a row game to review the rituals of Pesach. Since this was a FOUR in a row game, we used the opportunity to talk about the significance of the number 4 at the Seder!
Thursday with Morah Hadassah: Finishing up some of the Seder crafts to take home- including some very cozy pillows to enjoy our Seders with a true sense of freedom.
