Funny Story

In my preschool class we have been discussing the Jews during the time that the story of Chanukah took place. We have been discussing this for the past week and will continue to talk about it every day so that the students will know the story by the time Chanukah arrives. Each week we will discuss a different aspect of the holiday. This week we talked all about the dreidel. We learned that the Greeks didn't let the Jews learn Torah.... (I'm sure you all know the rest of the story). Bottom line the reason we play dreidel today is because the Jews had to hide their Torah and take out dreidels and pretend to play.

Today during circle time I was reviewing the story and I asked my students, "So who remembers who were the people that were very not nice to the Jews?" I did not think I would get a response being that my students are really little and some are not even talking, for them to remember the name 'Greeks', something they have never heard of before was not something I expected of them but figured I'd test their intelligence and throw the question out there.

Ryan, a really smart little 3 year old is sitting in the circle and I see him thinking, like he knows the answer. All of a sudden he screams out, "Morah Chany, I know it's the GEEKS!"