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Teacher Karen Shill shows the seder plate to Abigail Ketslakh, 7, Max Perry, 7,
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March 25 - 2010
n a room filled with Passover-
themed posters and music,
students in Karen Shill's first-
grade class celebrated and shared
newfound knowledge of the holiday at
a March 14 model seder at Beth Israel
Congregation in Ann Arbor.
Entire families participated in the
learning and fun, which began with
crafts and moved on to drama activities
complete with costume, song and dance.
"We acted out the flight from Egypt
and the drama faced when there was
no way to go and Pharoah's army was
in hot pursuit:' Shill said. "We acted
out the parting of the Sea of Reeds
and the Children of Israel passing
through on dry land, with parents
blowing bubbles all around them and
various sea animals grounded.
"Participants took musical instru-
ments and danced with them and we
used puppetry to act out parts of the
story."
The morning culminated at the
seder table.
"We read from a children's Haggadah
with brachot (blessings) and songs , ) '
said Shill, who has been teaching first
grade at the school for more than 20
years and leads the family model seder
Abigail Ketslakh and her mom,
Kimberly Vancina, make charoset
for the seder.
annually. "And we all ate the seder meal
complete with parsley, hard-boiled
eggs, maror, matzah, gefilte fish, cha-
roset, grape juice, macaroons — and
finally, pieces of the afikoman."
The 10 plagues were reenacted with
croaking toy frogs, small bouncy balls
for hail, bubble-wrap to represent
boils and "wild animal" finger pup-
pets."Everyone got sunglasses for
darkness and acted out bumping into
things:' Shill said.
At the end of the program, the stu-
dents took home the Haggadah they
used for the program and a decorated
bag containing symbols of the 10
plagues to use and share at their own
home seder. Fl