Whole School Purim 1: Symbols

Grades: 1-2      The Whole-School Holiday lessons make up a spiral curriculum, in which each lesson focuses on a different aspect of Jewish holiday, value, or key subject. With some exceptions, Whole School Holiday lessons are built around a matrix that allows students to have an unique experience each year.

• Grade 1–2: Purim Symbols
• Grade 2–3: The Purim Story
• Grade 3–4: The Purim Project
• Grade 4–5: Purim Mitzvot and Blessings
• Grade 5–6: Purim Food
• Grade 6–7: The Illuminated Megillah
• Grade 7–8: Our Purim Problem

In this lesson students will learn the different objects that are associated with Purim. Each of these objects connects us to the Purim story. Each of these objects connects us to the senses. We see the different costumes, we hear the Megillah, we taste and smell the Hamentashen, we touch the grogger. Celebrating Purim encompasses our whole body.