Judaism

This week we have spent time looking at the Jewish faith. 

We began by finding out about what Jews believe such as the Shema, their Holy Book, the Shabbat, and symbols such as the Star of David.

We then made posters:

We learnt about the festival of Purim, after listening to the story a group of children worked together to create a play. Everyone made a shaker to use when the group performed the play. When the story is read in the synagogue everyone cheers at the name of Esther and everyone boos at the name of Haman. Some children wrote part of the story for a scroll, while others drew a scene from the story on a scroll. We then decorated the scrolls because Esther scrolls are beautifully decorated. The group then performed the play with the rest of class reacting using their voices and shaker.

We learnt about the Passover story and its relationship to the seder dish. We completed work on the significance of the elements of the seder dish as well as designing a seder plate.

We found out about the Western Wall and how Jews come to the Western Wall to pray and ask God for help with the things that worry them. We thought about what we would like to pray about and what we could ask God for help with.

  

We learnt about Marc Chagall, a Jewish artist, looking at his painting called Jew at Prayer.

We are looking forward to our trip next week to the Jewish Museum in Manchester.