Goodbye!

 Challah braiding

 MOON BOUNCE FUN!

 What a blast!

  Look at these smiling faces!

 Our favorite Shabbat song: The Shabbat angles.

Shabbat Shalom and have a wonderful rest of the summer!!!

More Shabbat!

 Watercolor! We follow a 3 step method which helps keep the colors from mixing, thereby making the watercolor painting more enjoyable and enhancing the artwork.  1.Water 2.Color 3.Paint

 Dalya hides her playdough in the egg. 

 Sprinkler time!

 Practicing to braid a basic two strand "challah". The hand motions used for this activity helps to build the skill for braiding with three, four and eventually six!

 Shabbat patterns. Building those math skills with our Shabbat theme!

Today in our dramatic play area, we had a special additoin. The Shabbat wooden set. This sparked some amazing pretend play: celebrating Shabbat, and general pretend family life. 

  

Dalya and Sara add the finishing touches (Shabbat theme) to our Summer program project, our 

"worlds" which will be sent home tomorrow!

Shabbat- Kiddush!

 Dropping corks into hollow pipes.

 Morah Mushka asks our friends where we find these corks. Peretz thinks for a moment and says, "A wine bottle!" We talk about the special Mitzvah of making Kiddush on grape juice or wine on Shabbat. 

 Balancing a cork tower.

 Dalya lines the corks up and proceeds to count them. She counts 20 in total!

 Blowing bubble and popping them!

 Nechama Liba and Sara help the 2 year olds. Nechama Liba shows Hannah how to go down and Sara pours water so it will be a water slide!

  

 Shabbat music and movement! 

Flickering like a candle.

 Twisting like a challah!

 Squeezing eye droppers to fill the Kiddush cup with grape juice. This is an excellent way to build fine motor skills. It was a little difficult for some friends at the very beginning, but they all did it very well!

 Peretz empties the Kiddush cup with the dropper as well!

 Painting with corks. Nechama Liba and Peretz make dots with them. 

Dalya rolls it it in the paint. 

 It ends with this. :) 

Relaxing and reading. 

Day 7- Shabbat + Candles

 Thank you to Sara and her family for the fresh, healthy snack this week!

 Waiting for turns to sign in.

 In honor of our Shabbat theme, we add sparkly beautiful beads to the playdough. We also use toothpicks which bring in fine motor building along with the playdough sensory experience. 

 Peretz pushes the beads into the playdough and removes them to see the imprints that they left. The sequin bead leaves a most interesting design!

 Elet sticks toothpicks into the beads and then pokes them into his playdough ball. 

 Rainy day cars! We haven't used them much this summer, but while the rain pours outside today, we are happy to be dry inside. 

 Making salt dough. 

 We shape the dough into flowers and push a candle down in the middle so that once its baked a candle can stand in it. 

 On the Seventh day Hashem rested. That is the day of Shabbat!

 One of the unanimously favorite books in our class library is a book called, "The Shabbat Box."

Morah Mushka told the friends that there was a special surprise that we would be working on this week in honor of the Shabbat theme. She took out the Shabbat Box book as a hint. The friends clapped their hands with excitement as they understood that we would be making a box of our own. (For our class for during the year) With a pen and paper, we came up with the different items we would need to complete the box. The candle sticks we started today are the first addition!

 Shabbat candle art: Using a white shabbat candle we made designs on our papers. We could not see the desings because the candle is white and the paper is white. Then we took paintbrushes and painted with water color over the paper. Tada!  The water color would not sink into the part of the paper that had the wax, so white lines appeared in between the water color! It was so much fun!

 We changed our sensory table back to sand. It was a huge hit today during center time. 

Peretz sorts Shabbat items and weekday items.