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VISIT US AT WALDEREDUCATION.ORG Education © Hamodia Newspaper/Binah Magazine | 2020 Walder TINKERING TUESDAY: Pesach Projects PRESCHOOL Four Sons Cup Materials Needed: Prepare your children to present the Arbaah Banim at the Seder by discussing each of the 4 sons’ responses, both verbal and with body • 3 Paper cups (same size) language, to the mitzvos of Pesach, as well as the prescribed responses. • Scissors Talk about different emotions that one has and discuss different coping mechanisms for experiencing strong emotions. • Invisible tape • Mirror • Markers

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• 3 strips of thick cardboard 1. On one cup, cut out a window in the shape of half an oval or circle. This will serve as (ex: from an Amazon box) or the face. styrofoam about 1½ inches 2. Tape the second cup to the bottom of your first cup. This will serve as the body. • 1 piece of thick cardboard or 3. Using the picture above as a guide, draw a boy’s body and hair around the opening styrofoam about 5 inches you created. x 5 inches 4. Insert cup three into the top cup. • Marker 5. Using a mirror, practice making different facial expressions. Make observations about • Scissors what you think the Chacham, Rasha, Tam, and She’eino Yodeia Lish’ol emotions would • Glue gun or craft glue look like. • Stamp pad 6. On the inserted cup, draw the face you think a chacham would make. • 6x6 piece of paper or index card 7. Twist the cup until the Chacham’s face is no longer visible and draw the Rasha’s • Hole puncher expression. Repeat, and draw the Tam, and finally, the She’eino Yodeia Lish’ol. • Pipe cleaner, string, or ribbon Have fun twisting the cup to display the 4 different emotions of the 4 sons at your Seder table!

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• 1 sheet of cardstock paper or Hidden Item Chametz Finder watercolor paper (This won’t work Try this craft with a partner! Imagine that your paintbrush and watercolors are your flashlight for on regular printer paper as the Bedikas Chametz and watch the images come to life with your watercolors! paper might buckle from the watercolors.) 1. Using moderate pressure with a white crayon, draw chametz foods, such as a cupcake, slice of bread, donut, and cookie, spread around the page. Please note: It may be helpful to use a • White crayon flashlight to shine on your drawings while you work to help you see your drawings. • Paintbrush 2. Switch papers with your partner. • Watercolors 3. Paint over your drawings with watercolors to magically find all your chametz items! • Cup of water

VISIT US AT WALDEREDUCATION.ORG TINKERING TUESDAY: Pesach Projects ELEMENTARY Materials Needed: Pesach Stamp of Approval It is forbidden to own or see chametz in your possession on Pesach. Areas where chametz is regularly • 3 Paper cups (same size) brought and can be reached must be cleaned and checked for chametz. Mark these areas with this sign and get kids involved in the investigation. Make Pesach cleaning a fun experience for all. • Scissors • Invisible tape To make the stamp: • Mirror 1. On the cardboard strip, draw the letters .in block form about 1½ inches tall כשר לפסח Markers • 2. Cut the letters out with your scissors. 3. Using the picture above, align and glue your letters backwards, starting from left to right, Materials Needed: onto another piece of cardboard. Creating your sign: Please note: The letters have to be • 3 strips of thick cardboard backwards on the stamp to appear in the 6. Punch two holes, a few inches away from each (ex: from an Amazon box) or correct direction after stamping. other, on a piece of paper. styrofoam about 1½ inches 4. Cut the excess cardboard off from around the 7. Slide string or pipe cleaner through the two • 1 piece of thick cardboard or letters. holes and tie ends together. styrofoam about 5 inches 5. Using the scraps from the letters, cut out a 8. On the bottom of the paper, write: “This room x 5 inches small cardboard rectangle and glue it to the has been inspected by ______”. • Marker back of your stamp to make a handle. 9. After inspecting each room, stamp your paper, • Scissors sign your name on the line, and hang up your sign on doorknobs and cabinets • Glue gun or craft glue • Stamp pad If you don’t have a stamp pad: You’ll need a piece of felt, a paper • 6x6 piece of paper or index card plate, washable paint, water, and a paintbrush. Place a piece of felt • Hole puncher on a paper plate. Squeeze washable paint onto the felt and spread it • Pipe cleaner, string, or ribbon around with the paintbrush. Once the felt is saturated, add a little water to keep the stamp pad going and the paint from drying out.

Bonus Lesson: Try this craft with a partner! Imagine that your paintbrush and watercolors are your flashlight for Bedikas Chametz and watch the images come to life with your watercolors! So that’s really cool, but why does that happen? Crayons are oil based and watercolors are water 1. Using moderate pressure with a white crayon, draw chametz foods, such as a cupcake, slice based. In chemistry, oil and water molecules have of bread, donut, and cookie, spread around the page. Please note: It may be helpful to use a different density, and since the oil molecules are flashlight to shine on your drawings while you work to help you see your drawings. less dense they stay above the water molecules that 2. Switch papers with your partner. gather allowing your drawings to show through! 3. Paint over your drawings with watercolors to magically find all your chametz items!

VISIT US AT WALDEREDUCATION.ORG Education © Hamodia Newspaper/Binah Magazine | 2020 Walder WORK-IN WEDNESDAY Preschool Echad Mi Yodeia Counting Book Materials Needed Build excitement for the Seder and • 14 pieces of paper (1 for the prepare your children for Nirtzah by cover, 1 for each number) singing Echad Mi Yodeia in Hebrew and/ • Crayons, markers, or assorted or English and creating a counting book craft supplies that they can use at the Seder. Procedure: In fancy or fun letters, create a cover that says “______’s • 1 ה' 2 .Mi Yodeia Counting Book,” writing your child’s name instead of the blank לוחות 3 .Label each page with a number and the corresponding phrase • אבות 4 .Have your child draw or create the correct number of objects on the page • אמהות 5 חומשי תורה 6 סדרי משנה :Suggestions 7 ימי שבתא Hashem - Crown or glow 1 8 ימי מילה 9 Yemei Shabbasa - What Hashem created each day and Shabbos 7 ירחי לידה 10 Yemei Milah - 8 boxes with numbers and baby on a pillow at a bris 8 דבריא )דברות) 11 Yarchei Leidah - 9 boxes with grids inside and baby in a crib or stroller 9 כוכביא )כוכבים) 12 Shivtaya - Boys labeled with the names of the Shevatim 12 שבטיא )שבטים) 13 מדיא )מידות) 13 Midaya - List the 13 middos or make 13 pretty designs

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Hashem for shortening Galus Mitzrayim by 190 years and counting the 400 years from the birth of Yitzchak.

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1. How many simanim did Rabbi Yehudah make for the makkos? ______2. How many makkos are listed in the Torah (and therefore in the Haggadah)? ______3. According to Rabbi Yosi, how many makkos took place in Mitzrayim, where they were described as the finger of Hashem? ______4. According to Rabbi Yosi, how many makkos took place at the Yam Suf, where they were described as Hashem’s strong hand?______5. According to Rabbi Eliezer, how many makkos took place in Mitzrayim, where they were described as the finger of Hashem? ______6. According to Rabbi Eliezer, how many makkos took place at the Yam Suf, where they were described as Hashem’s strong hand?______7. According to Rabbi Akiva, how many makkos took place in Mitzrayim, where they were described as the finger of Hashem? ______8. According to Rabbi Akiva, how many makkos took place at the Yam Suf, where they were described as Hashem’s strong hand?______9. How many makkos did the Mitzrim suffer all together? ______Point to Ponder: Why did the Mitzrim suffer exactly this Middle School number of makkos? Galus and Geulas Mitzrayim Timeline At the Bris Bein Habesarim, Hashem told Avraham that his descendants would be slaves in a land that wasn’t theirs for 400 years and then Hashem would redeem them and give them great wealth. Yet Bnei Yisrael weren’t even in Mitzrayim for 400 years. This activity will help your children visualize the timeframe of Galus and Geulas Mitzrayim.

Calculate and fill in the years of each event using the given information.

2018 - Bris Bein Habesarim __ Avraham moved to Eretz Canaan 5 years later, when he was 75. __ Yitzchak was born, 30 years after the Bris Bein Habesarim. __ Yaakov and his family went down to Mitzrayim, 190 years after Yitzchak was born. __ Bnei Yisrael were forced into slavery, 116 years before they were taken out of Mitzrayim. __ Miriam was born, the same year that the harsh slavery began. She was 86 when Bnei Yisrael left Mitzrayim. __ Aharon was born three years after Miriam. __ Moshe was born three years later. (He was 80 years old when Hashem took Bnei Yisrael out of Mitzrayim.) 2448 - Bnei Yisrael left Mitzrayim. __ After 40 years in the midbar, Bnei Yisrael entered Eretz Canaan and began conquering it.

Extension: Create and illustrate a timeline showing the era of Galus and Geulas Mitzrayim. THEMED THURSDAY Preschool Tzav Salt Absorption Activity In this week’s parsha, the Torah (7:26) prohibits the consumption of blood. Salt, which is Materials Needed hygroscopic, is used to draw blood out of the meat • White glue in a bottle in the koshering process before the meat can be • Paper consumed. To see this quality of salt, watch how • Eyedropper salt absorbs the water and moves it away from its • Saltshaker filled with sea salt starting point on the paper, just as the salt draws • Water colored with food coloring the blood out of a piece of meat.

1. Squeeze the glue in a continuous squiggle onto the paper. Point to Ponder: 2. Before it dries, generously sprinkle salt over the glue. If salt absorbs water, why 3. Use the eyedropper to slowly drop colored water onto the salt. does it dissolve in it when we 4. Watch as the colors travel along the glue lines and the salt put it in the water for karpas? absorbs the liquid. You’re seeing hygroscopy in action.

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This week’s parsha discusses the terumas hadeshen, removing a panful of ashes from the Mizbeiach and placing the ashes in a spot nearby. This designated spot was near the ramp that the kohanim used to ascend to the Mizbeiach.

Ramps, or inclined planes, are simple machines commonly used to make moving objects from one height to another easier. Explore the impact that rise, the distance from the base of your raised surface to the bottom of the ramp; run, the horizontal distance between the beginning and end points; and slope, the angle created by dividing the rise by the run, have on moving objects with the following activities.

Glossary: Hygroscopic: having the ability to absorb water from the surrounding atmosphere. Rise: the height of a raised surface or how far a line goes up Run: the horizontal distance between the beginning and end points Slope: the angle created by dividing the rise by the run © Hamodia Newspaper/Binah Magazine | © 2020 Walder Education © Hamodia Newspaper/Binah Magazine | 2020 Walder Tzav Mizbeiach Ramp Activities

Experiment with using ramps to increase Middle School the energy of a moving object without additional effort. Custom Coaster Goal: Elementary Build the coolest roller coaster you can using the materials you have. The ball has to be Ramp Races able to make it through the whole ride without stopping. Materials Needed Challenge: Try adding loops or spirals. Can you make • Flat movable surfaces: books, cardboard, hills? How high can you start? How long can boxes, trays, etc. your track be? • 2 boards of different lengths Think it Over: • 2 toy cars (or 2 balls of the same size Does the size / weight of the ball change the and weight) ball’s ability to go through the whole ride? • Tape measure What makes the ball able to go up and over a • Timer hill without stopping? • Optional: String or a belt to mark the What problems did you run into and how did finish line you fix them? What was the tallest or longest ride you made? 1. Stack the flat movable objects to create a What materials did you use to hold up different raised starting point for your race. parts of your coaster? 2. Create two ramps by leaning two boards How does the slope of your ramps of different lengths against the edge of affect your marbles’ movement? your raised starting point. 3. Mark a finish line on the floor a distance from your starting point and the ends of Materials Needed your ramps. 4. Predict which car will reach the finish • Assorted disposable materials around the line first. house (ex: paper plates, toilet paper/ paper towel rolls, cups, printing paper etc) 5. Ready the timer to start when you release the toy cars at the top of the ramps. • Marbles or small balls 6. Place both of your toy cars at the top of • Colorful paper, markers, decorative tape the ramp and release. (optional) 7. Record the rise, the run, and the time it • Other materials for stabilization took each car to reach • Tape the finish line. Point to Ponder: • Scissors Why are the Kohanim required to use a ramp instead of stairs to ascend the Mizbeiach?

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VISIT US AT WALDEREDUCATION.ORG A FREILICHEN FRIDAY Parshas Tzav Moshe is instructed to explain to Aharon and his sons, the Kohanim, about the avodah in the Mishkan and that they should do their tasks with zerizus, quickly and enthusiastically. The first avodah of the day is removing the ashes. Kohanim climb the ramp to the Mizbeiach and with a silver pan, take the previous day’s ashes off and pour them on each side of the ramp. Three new Korbanos are introduced. Each day the Kohein Gadol must bring a Minchas Chavitin with his own money, and the first time a Kohein serves, he brings a Korban Chinuch to show he is ready to learn the avodah. These korbanos must be completely burnt. Lastly, when a person has overcome a dangerous situation, such as illness, kidnapping, a long trip, or prison, he must bring a Shalmei Todah. Today, we bentch gomel instead.

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Dvar Torah

Why does the Korban Todah include such Hashem’s presence and guidance in our a large amount of matzos that must be lives. If we recognize that Hashem does eaten in one day, something that would be miracles for us every day, we will know impossible for one person or even a family? that we do not need to be worried or afraid, The Netziv answers that the only way to because we rely on and trust in Hashem. make sure that all of the meat and matzah We should use this time to strengthen would be consumed that day would be to our Torah learning, davening, mitzvah invite everyone possible to his seudah, observance, and chessed, and earn the Navi’s where he would proclaim the story of promise that Hashem will protect those who Hashem’s kindness to him to a large crowd. involve themselves in Torah and chessed. Rav Yitzchak Zilberstein, shlita, provides As we are at home with our families, let’s a different, yet beautiful answer, and adds share stories of Hashem’s kindness at the that we offer the Korban Todah, or bentch table and recognize that doing Hashem’s gomel, to strengthen our emunah by will brings yeshuos to Klal Yisrael. teaching us to recognize and acknowledge

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