Spirituality

ABRICA

Family, Friends
And Frogs

Beth Israel students hold
a fun-filled model seder.

COME IN NOW AND

ADD NEW LIFE TO YOUR

Teacher Karen Shill shows the seder plate to Abigail Ketslakh, 7, Max Perry, 7,

Maoz Bareket, 7, Hannah Bernstein, 6, and Willow Speiser, 6, all of Ann Arbor.

HARDWOOD FLOORS.

Shelli Liebman Dorfman
Senior Writer

DUSTLESS SAND AND

REFINISH

OR

Ann Arbor

I

SCREEN AND COAT.

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS

FAMILY OWNED AND OPERATED SINCE 1971

14 44104

FLOORS

HARDWOOD

-410 6•440110644W

REFINISHING

Aph,40111.,44 0wah. and

INTERIORS

LAMINATE

MARBLE/GRANITE

VINYL

3021 ORCHARD LAKE ROAD
3021

KEEGO HARBOR, MICHIGAN 48320

248.681.6460

WWW.HARBORFLOORS.COM

HOURS: M-F 8 AM - 6 PM, SAT. 9 AM - 5 PM

OR CALL TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT

CARPET

CERAMIC

CORK

AREA RUGS

COMMERCIAL

RESIDENTIAL

1575750

40

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