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.