This Tuesday and Wednesday were Rosh Chodesh Adar (the beginning of the Hebrew month Adar).

At our school, every year on Rosh Chodesh Adar, the twelfth graders transform the interior of the school into a theme.

This years theme was ‘The Wizard of Oz’. It was amazing how different the school looked!

Outside was over the rainbow, the bottom floor was the storm/hurricane, the staircase to the second floor was the bad witch, the second floor was the scarecrow, lion, and tin man, the staircase to the third floor was the good witch, and the top floor was Oz. The staircase (from the first floor to the third) was the yellow brick road.

Also, the twelfth graders ‘harass’ the eleventh graders by making their classrooms a mess. In one of the eleventh grade classrooms, all of the chairs and tables were tied together in a huge clump.

Additionally, the twelfth graders made a list of rules that are supposed to be followed up until Purim (that is in a little less than two weeks). Some of the rules are: No homework except in PE, teachers are not allowed to erase the board (that way they can’t write too much), lunch starts five minutes earlier, in fifth period you have do a tiktok (a dance video of sorts) with your teacher, and third period teachers have to start class with a joke.

It was super fun to see the school transformed!

Sadly, we are not going to be at school to see if the rules are actually enforced, and to participate in all of the other pre-Purim activities.

-Naomi

Rainbow balloon archThe storm The bad witch The lionThe tin manThe scarecrow Fake lollipops lining the good witch stairwell The good witch The Emerald City, Land of OzOzOzOzOz (all of the lockers are covered in green paper)The yellow brick roadAn eleventh grade classroom where all the tables and chairs are tied together in a clump List of rules made by the twelfth graders (the list is in Hebrew)