Temple Beth Tikvah Early Childhood Learning Center

Here at E.C.L.C. we are in the Passover mode. So we just expected all the children to have heard and know the Passover story. We as a staff are always looking for new and fresh ways to teach the children all about The Exodus story. The staff spent the time planning as well as setting up our curriculum to be different and exciting! Since we have heard this story over and over and over again we really wanted a new spin on an old story.

So we decided to see what the children already knew. I started the singing of the Four Questions and no one was joining in. I looked at the other teachers and said “Maybe because it is in Hebrew the children are finding this difficult.” So I began singing the ever popular song, Oh Listen, Oh listen King Pharaoh. Once again the children (except for a few of the kindergartners) did not sing. We looked at each other and it slowly dawned on us that a lot of these children were new to the school and really did not know the songs, much less the story of Passover. Wow!!!! We were amazEducation I realized how I had taken this Passover story for grantEducation I was on auto-pilot when it came to going through the rituals of this Passover holiday. I was brought up short. I realized I was not in the frame of mind nor heart to" Pass" on this story So I took a deep breath and started to tell the story orally just as the “telling” the Haggadah has been told many generations before.

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