Parshas Va'eira- first few plagues

Some things we have been up to this week:

Super cute makkos (plague) puppets. I found these printables here, printed them out, laminated them, cut each one out and glued it to a Popsicle stick. One kiddo had the "let my people go" sign, and I had the "no". We acted out the whole scene of Moshe going to Paroah and each kid got a chance to hold up a new makka (plague) and describe what happened:

We then made 2 cups, one of water (for the Jews) and one of blood (for the Egyptians) using foam with a sticky back. I used a knife to carve out 2 cups and using colored sand, the kiddos did the rest. It's really great using this foam since their is no messy glue involved and the sand sticks to it really well:

I made a few printables which you can find here of the first 4 plagues, this is the first one of a Jew drinking and an Egyptian drinking. The kids can use paint, marker, crayons, stickers etc. to color the drinks of the Jews and the Egyptian:

We then went on to Frogs. I found this fabulous lesson plan on Frogs from this website which the kiddos LOVED. I cut out the pictures of the metamorphosis of a frog and made little puppets on Popsicle sticks (what can I do, my kids love puppets:) and this was a great way to learn about it:

Then using the same lesson plan, we made a little tad pole and watched how a tadpole turns into a frog. The kids painted the legs and tail, cut it out and attached it to our frogs body:

Just some frog math- behind each frog is a number and they stuck the correct amount of stickers on each frog. (Just numbers 1-10):

Classic Montessori counting:

This was just a very cool learning moment- the sun was streaming into the room and happened to hit our globe just so--- it was so clear to my little guy how the sun shines on one side of the world (day) while the other side is dark (night time)...

Will work on the rest of the makkos this week- its a 'fun' Parshah in regard to the different science experiments and projects to do. Click here to see what we have done in the past with the 10 plagues.

Wishing all a great week,

Parshas VaAira- first 7 Makos (plagues)

While I know the East coast is getting its fair share of snow storms, we, here in the tropics, had a very cloudy day today- and when every day is hot and sunny, a cloudy day calls for hot cocoa, snuggling on the couch with a nice thick blanket and mommy reading from The Little Midrash Says all about this weeks parshah, Parshas VaAira.

After reading about the first 7 plagues in my most dramatic voice (the kids were at the edge of their seats and upon finishing the parshah begged me to keep reading into next weeks parshah:) we did a little project-

We took a hanging folder and made 10 squares. In each square we made each plague in order (we will do the last 3 next week).

Check it out:

Here it is in more detail:

Blood

Frogs

Lice

Wild Animals

Cattle Disease

Boils

Hail

And that's our project for today! And we are thinking of those of you in the snow:)