Rosh Hashana

Happy Jewish New Years!

This upcoming Wednesday night the first holiday of the New Year we will be celebrating for two days.

It is called, "Rosh Hashana"- "The Head of the Year".

It is a time for new beginnings We daven (pray) to Hashem to grant us a sweet New Year with goodness and happiness. We ask for a year of life, health, success, and pride form our children.

We also think of ways we can improve in our lives and make good resolutions that we will work hard to keep for the coming year. We make decisions that will impact positively on our lives.

It is a time for NEW things. So we pray for a good new year and we eat new fruit and wear new clothes.

Adam is trying new fruit called cactus fruit.

Is it sour? Nope. It is very sweet. However, Adam was so brave to try something new. This was his reaction. :) Good on you Adam for being open minded!

We want Hashem to grant us a SWEET year and so we also eat sweet things such as apples dipped into honey.

Isabella so sweetly tasting the sweet honey. Yum!

What awesome smiles the friends had on their faces when they were done tasting the honey. :)

They then understood the connection between eating something sweet and what it means to ask for a sweet year. SWEET = GOOD. :)

Sweet Talia dipping a sweet red apple into sweet honey. Double yum! :)

BBBZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you know how bees make honey?

The Pre-K friends know. Ask them. :)

Buzzy the Bee chooses  flowers with nectar in it.

What is nectar? It is a sugary fluid that taste like sugar water. Yes, we got to taste sugar water to understand what the bee tastes and why it likes it so much.

Then, Buzzy the Bee takes nectar with its tongue and bring it to the "House" Bee in the bee hive.

The "House" Bee thanks the Bee for bringing him the nectar and chews on it happily for a half hour. He then flies to the honey comb, and pours it into it. The Bee waits for the watery fluids from the nectar to get evaporated and pours a wax covering over to preserve it.

Isn't it incredible the way Hashem created the bees and what their functions are!!

Click below for a great animated click showing how bees make honey.

The friends watched it and they loved it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVq4Xvs615Q