We had a stellar first 2010 Jewish Kids Groups!
We started our session with a team challenge: We had to work together to figure out how to get our whole group across the bed of "hot lava" with our one pair of "lava proof shoes."
We collaborated, tried a few different ideas and successfully completed our mission. Good teamwork!
Later, we watched some short clips about Mediterranean monk seals which live off the coast of Israel:
Mediterranean monk seals live in warm water, are mammals, and are badly endangered :(
Each week we will learn about a different Israeli animal and demonstrate our learning through a collaborative poster and conversation:
We are also doing a series on Jews in Israel: Where did they come from?
This week we focused on Jews from Yemen, ask you kids about Yemen and about how the Yemeni Jews got to Israel. Ana narrated the video (below) for us (because the actual narration is aimed at adults). It's from the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archives (a great resource!).
We were amazed at what these Jews endured in order to get to Israel and were so impressed by how other Israelis helped them in their journey.
Rosh Hashana is coming!
After hearing a kinda made up/kinda true story about Jewish villages shouting "Shana Tova Tikatayvoo" (happy sweet, new year!), we worked in groups of two and created signs for the different shofar notes:
Tekiah = one long blast
Shevarim = three medium blasts
Teruah = 9 short blasts
We looked at pictures of real shofars, so were big, some small, some curly, and then all practiced the shofar notes on our recorders.
