Whole School Purim 4: Mitzvot and Blessings

Grades: 4-5      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
• Teacher's Guide

In Purim Mitzvot and Blessings we are expanding on the students' learning of the four Mitzvot of  Purim. We are giving them in-depth information on each of the Mitzvot, as well as having them learn the Hebrew prayer we say before listening to the reading of the Megillah.