Havdalah!

We spent the week learning about making Havdalah! Ask your children how we use our five senses and they will tell you... we use our eyes to see the candle burning; we use our nose to smell the b'samim; we use our mouth to taste the grape juice; we use our ears to hear the bracha; we use our hands to hold the candle.  We've smelled different types of spices, and used them to glue on to a spice box.



We painted with spices too, and made colorful havdalah candles.




 We glued tin foil onto kiddush cups to finish off our Havdalah sets (make sure to smell them when they come home!)



We played matching games with the parts of a havdalah set...

 

We practiced rolling wicks from cotton balls...

 

We got to play with different types of havdalah candles...

We practiced rolling candles with cinnamon scented playdough (our classroom smelled so yummy)...

 We tried smelling different spices, like cinnamon sticks, thyme, nutmeg and curry.

We learned how shabbos and chanukah candles have only one wick, but havdalah candles have more than 2!

We also painted balls to make our own b'smamim!

We also learned the letter gimmel (gumball) this week.  We made gimmels out of playdough, made gimmel puppets, and dot painted gumballs onto gimmels.

We starting learning about Tu B'Shvat this week, painting planters so we can plant next week, and "planting" flowers in our sensory bin.

We also had fun  playing drumswith Morah Danit...

And in our down time, we played with blocks (we built a whole building out of squares!), read books, painted, colored a birthday book for Eva (happy birthday tomorrow!) and watched Hockey eat.

What a great first week back!!  Shabbat Shalom!

Shabbat!

We spent the week learning about Shabbat!  We talked about how Hashem rested on Shabbat after working hard all week to create the world, so we rest on Shabbat.  We don't turn on lights, go in the car, or watch tv.

We love grapes!  We practiced sorting red and green grapes.

We used toilet paper rolls to stamp purple circles to make bunches of grapes.

We glued purple circles onto a grape pattern.

Then we did a taste test, where each child tasted a red and a green grape, and we charted what they liked better.  Red won by one!

We talked about how we squeeze grapes to make grape juice, and everyone had the chance to squeeze them!!!

 




After we squeezed all the juice through a strainer, we made a bracha and got to drink our homemade grapejuice.  Yummy!







We also practiced pouring grape juice into cups, and then used a funnel to pour it back into the bottle.

We decorated our bulletin board, gluing aluminum foil to make 2 candlesticks...

Painting 2 brown challahs... 

Painting water on bleeding tissue paper to make 1 bottle of grape juice.

Besides making grape juice, we got to "make" challah out of playdough.  We practiced rolling 3 strands, and braiding them together.

We also practiced counting to 3 by matching "raisins" on challahs.

We painted challah covers, using stencils to write Shabbat, and sponges of kiddush cups and challah.

We made a special sign with the bracha for the candles.  First, we used the wicks of real candles to paint yellow and orange candles.

 Then we glued sequins onto foam paper.

After practicing making the Bracha, we glued the candles, bracha and pictures on the foam paper.  We hope you like final product (it's going home tomorrow).

We learned that sometimes we decorate our Shabbat table with flowers, so we made flowers out of tissue paper, and decorated vases to put our flowers in.

We hope you enjoy all the Shabbat treats!  

Shabbat shalom, and have a wonderful break!