Kornmehl

Terry Aizen – Director of Kornmehl

Crazy Hat Day

We celebrated Crazy Hat Day on Friday last week to make the beginning of the month of Adar and the start of Purim celebrations. The children all arrived with creative and fun hats, and we had a lovely time together.

Purim

This week we have immersed ourselves in the joyous festival of Purim. The children are enjoying the story with all its colourful characters. The best way for young children to internalise the details of the story is through interactive role plays and bringing the story alive with props and puppets. The story has all the components of a spellbinding saga – there is a villain, a heroine, who is also a beautiful Queen and a King whose actions ensure a happy ending for all. The mark of a good story is when you see the children re-enacting it later during the day. Purim lends itself to lots of creativity. The themes of the festival can be expressed through making masks, crowns, shakers, mishloach manot and through each of the characters. There is a sense of glitz and glamour about Purim, that just begs for sparkle and bright colours. We have had fun dressing up with wigs, hats, masks, beads, and glasses. We learnt a song “Leitzan katan nechmad” (little clown). It’s a delightful song about a little clown. Wearing a wig, hat and tie we pretended to be the little clown, skipping and dancing around in a circle, then choosing a friend to dance with again, skipping and dancing with lots of laughter and joy too.

Purim comments:

Samara: The King did not want anyone to come to his party.
Gaby: The bad man got all the Jewish people away.
Milo: I had a bad dream about the hats and masks.
Jordon: The Queen did not want to come to the party. She did not want to eat cake or lollies.
Drew: I like Purim, so I can dress up as a mermaid butterfly.
Hudson: I like Queen Vashti because she has a more beautiful dress than Queen Esther.
Joshua: I liked Queen Esther because she saved all the Jews.
Ethan: Haman was mean. He wanted all the people to bow down to him.
Noa H: Haman went away because he was so mean.
Lexi: I like Purim because we get to dress up and eat Hamantaschen.
Winnie: I like doing the puppet shows for Purim.

On Friday and Monday, the children were involved in baking hamantaschen to put inside our mishloach manot baskets in time for Purim on Tuesday next week.

Thank you to Mrs Jacqui Cohen, Mrs Leia Lewis, Mrs Jessica Ivany, Mrs Nadine Yemen and Mr David Weiner, who came in to bake Hamantaschen with all the groups. This was a mammoth task over two days, and we really appreciate your help.

Happy 40th Birthday to Emanuel School

We celebrated this special milestone in the life of the School on Tuesday. The children were treated to a wonderful, fun, and hilarious magician show. Branden had the children in hysterics with all his funny tricks and antics. There was a lot of laughter, and the children loved the show. We also got to eat delicious cupcakes made by the school canteen. Thank you to the Marketing team for organising this special event for us. We are looking forward to many more 40th birthday celebrations this year.

Zac: I liked it when the flowers disappeared.
Neave: I liked it when he let the mouse jump.
Luc: I liked the flower one….it vanished.
Allec: I liked the magic, and he made silly things.
Aliza: I liked it when he pressed the button, and the flowers went.
Teya: I liked playing with the wand….it was just pretending.
Joseph: I also liked the wand. It was silly.