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!