"Shatil" children's club members gathered in Astana community center. 16 children have actively started preparing to the holiday evening, devoted to Tu Bi-Shevat.

   Before the children started to compose a scenario of the evening, club participants together with volunteers from the Jewish Republican library filial in Astana read several books of Jewish writers, devoted to the New Year of Trees. Among the stories children liked best were the following: "Tu Bi-Shevat meals" by Rivka Elitsur and "A tree has come" by Ovsey Driz.

  At the end of the meeting children draw trees, growing in Erets Israel. And then they were given a home task to prepare flowerpots with a ground for planting sprouts on Tu Bi-Shevat.

Elena Levina