Floating through First Grade

Yom Kippur is just a day away!
The children learned all about this very special day in class.
We made honey cake today  for a sweet new year!

To help us understand some of the concepts of this holy day, we....

• The children decorated a "spin wheel" with the things we do not do on Yom Kippur.
• The children walked to the bay and said a special prayer for a good year- ( it is a custom to go to a bay of water and "throw away out sins" before Yom Kippur ) 
• The children learned about the concept of giving extra charity before Yom Kippur. A custom we do before Yom Kippur is a chicken is given to poor people as an atonement for our sins. 

 We sang....a hebrew song for Yom Kippur called

"Ba, Ba, Yom Hakipurim Ba....."

May you be written and sealed for a sweet new year!

Morah Mushky

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