Day 7 of Creation

Today we talked about day 7 of creation.

What did Hashem create on the 7th day?

Nothing!  On the 7th day Hashem rested!

We took out our Shabbat set.

"There's fire" says Sender. 

Hannah offers her friends Challah.

The children congregate around the Shabbat table.

We did easel painting today with gold sparkles in honor of Shabbat :)

Thank you to Riki for being the fruit family this week!

Mendel and Ella set up their family photo's beside their snack plate :)

Akiva figured out how to place the dropper in the pipe.

Riki enjoyed taking her friends through the sprinkler, holding their hands.

At circle time we did a Shabbat Music and Movement.

Friday Fun

Moments from Shabbat Live:

Today we saw it raining outside.  Too wet to swim or play outside, but the children were thrilled to play with the cars!

Shabbat Party: 

Shabbat Shalom!

Jungle Day

Today we had a variety of Animal Jungle experiences.

The playdough table was set up like a jungle, inviting the children to play and sparking their imagination about jungle animals.

Sender makes balls, to create a fence for his animals.

"I have two rocks," says Chana.

"I also have two rocks", says Mendel.

"Rocks", says Levi.

We added to our Jungle scene by adding grass for the animals to hide in.

What a great jungle the children have created!

Riki helps spray and wipe down the table at clean up.

Swimming!  Levi stops the sprinkler with his hands.

Marnie and Hannah drinking (fresh hose water) from the elephant's nose.

Chana and Dalya pour water on the pavement and watch it trickle down. 

Akiva loves the firework effect he creates with his spade and water.  

At circle time we go on a trip to the jungle.  

We use our body to help us make believe.  We travel on a plane, land in Africa, go on a jeep...

...and look for lions.

We find one hiding in the grass, and throw him cookies, chicken and an apple.

We munch it down with our fierce teeth.

Animals in the Jungle

Today we did jungle art.

The children created trees from brown rectangles and green circles.

Marnie places her monkey in the tree, and says the 'lion goes on the ground.'

Loving our new green playdough!

Chana made a lollipop.

Sender pressing the bear into the dough to see the animal footprints.

Hannah presses down the cows to see the shape of its feet. 

Levi is our Torah helper today.

Ella enjoys one of our new books from the library.

Levi building with lego.

"It's a moon" Chana says.

Swimming!

At circle time, Marnie shows us the Jungle she created with all the animals.