Kornmehl
Terry Aizen – Director of Kornmehl
Pesach
We all participated in our interactive Kornmehl Pesach Seder on Thursday. The children arrived at Pre-school dressed in their best Shul clothes and were eager to participate in this long-awaited Chag. The tables looked beautiful, and the food was delicious. Each child participated in dressing up and dramatising the story. We had King Pharaoh’s and Moses characters, Yocheved, baby Moses in the basket and lots of slaves. What a triumph it was when Moses led us to the Red Sea, and it parted, and we were all led safely to freedom and the land of milk and honey. We sang, rejoiced, and ate delicious matzah ball soup, lots of matza and all the traditional foods found on the Seder plate too. We had a wonderful time. Our Seder ended with the children all going on a hunt to find the Afikomen.
Thank you to all our wonderful parent helpers: Yahav Vidor, Sharri Markson, Lisa Greenberg, Rachel Cohen, Laura Gordon, Jessica Ivany, Hilary Ezekiel and Melissa Varejes. Your help is very much appreciated by all the teachers and the children.
Pesach comments
Dylan: King Pharaoh did not want to let his people go. He made all the Jewish people go but he did not want to.
Drew: King Pharaoh was evil. He did not let the people go. They had to work harder and harder and harder every day.
Dylan: Wild beasts came and bugs and frogs.
Allec: They could not make bread. They had to hurry up. No more Jewish people needed to work for King Pharaoh.
Juliette: The slaves were sad because they worked so hard. Pharaoh was mean, he made the Jewish people work so hard.
Noah D: King Pharaoh is mean because he is a bad man!
What do you remember from Pesach last year?
Lulu: We eat matzah.
Dylan: When someone breaks up a piece of matzah, sometimes they eat it and other times we hide it, find it and get a prize.
Edison: You put matzah in a kind of bag, and you have to find it.
Noa: My sister found the matzah at Bubba’s daddy’s house.
Aimee: I didn’t find it because I was too busy talking. It was too hard. My cousin found it behind the pillow.
Ali: We drink grape juice and dip that green thing in water, salt water.
Aimee: You put something inside the lettuce and wrap it up and eat it. Grated carrot and chilli.
Allec: It’s about Grandma Moses.
Aimee: Actually, it’s about Baby Moses.
Noa: A naughty mum put the baby in the water and the Pharaoh’s daughter picked her up with a teddy bear.
Back to Pre-school visit
A large group of very excited Year K students returned to Kornmehl for our back to Pre-school visit on Friday. Everyone was so happy to see each other – teachers and children. We divided into two groups – Starfish and Dolphins and our Year K students each had a turn to share something special with us that they had learnt at “Big School”. We sang familiar songs and enjoyed seeing each other again.
The real highlight of the afternoon was time to play in our beautiful outdoor setting with friends past and present. We all enjoyed afternoon tea together and then it was time to say goodbye. This is always a special time to reconnect with the children and to make sure that the foundations and bonds formed at Pre-school remain a special part of each child’s time with us.
Happy Birthday
We wish a very happy birthday to Oscar Cohen (5), Ziggy Rosenberg (5), Sofia Solomon (5), Teya Weiner (4), August Wheeler (4) and Tamar Stuhler (4). We hope you all have a beautiful birthday celebration this term and in the holidays.
We look forward to seeing you all back at Pre-school on Wednesday 26 April 2023. We wish you all a Chag Sameach and a happy Pesach with your families.
