Purim!

This week we started preparing for the upcoming holiday of Purim!

(http://www.chabad.org/holidays/purim/article_cdo/aid/645995/jewish/The-Basic-Purim-Story.htm)

We painted a beautiful Persian palace mural in our classroom as well as making our own individual palaces. We got ideas from pictures of Persian architecture.

All citizens of Shushan were invited to attend a royal party at the palace. 

At the party Achashveirosh wanted to show off how beautiful his queen was to all his guests. 

Right before she was to show up, however, Vashti, discovered that she had suddenly broken out with a really bad case of pimples and refused to show up! 

Haman gave King Achashveirosh bad advice and told him to get rid of Vashti because she had very rudely not  listened  to the king and embarrassed him in front of all his guests. Achashveirosh listened to Haman and Vashti was taken out of the picture. 

Achashveirosh is very sad not to have a new queen. 

He has a contest to find a new queen. Many girls come to the palace to the palace to try to be queen.

Achashveirosh picks Esther to be his queen. 

(Esther was a Jewish orphan girl raised by her Uncle Mordechai, who was discovered and brought to the palace against her will.)

Look out for the continuation of the Purim story next week!