Ma Koreh
Adam Carpenter – Head of Jewish Life Primary
We concluded our daily counting of the Omer this week and we have been busy learning and preparing for Shavuot.
In anticipation of our whole school ceremony, each student decorated a letter of the Aleph Bet to be combined on a scroll, representing the idea that each person in every generation was present at Mount Sinai.
We have also been learning songs connected to the Torah service and the giving of the Torah for the ceremony – Torah Tziva Lanu Moshe, VZot HaTorah, Al Shlosha Devarim and Etz Chayim Hi.
All Years from K-6 participated in activities focusing on a different element or theme of Shavout, including:
- During Hebrew art lessons, students decorated bikkurim baskets, glida (ice-cream) cones and fields of flowers to represent the midrash that Mount Sinai blossomed with flowers whilst the Torah was being given.
- Creating mosaic paper collages, with the two tablets and the Ten Commandments, translating the Hebrew text into English.
- Learning about the Book of Ruth through video and text, then creating a comic strip of the story.
- Identifying, ordering and reflecting on the Aseret HaDibrot (The Ten Statements/Commandments).
- Paper craft of Mount Sinai and bikkurim baskets.
- Creating a visual, paper midrash based on the Torah’s account of Israelites experience at Mount Sinai.
