As always we started Jewish Kids Groups with a team challenge and the Shma. Our challenge was "light as a feather stiff as a board," an old camp game. Only, we said, "kal as a feather, light as a board," and learned the Hebrew word for light, or easy, while we tackled our challenge.
This week Noah led us in Shma in English. We've been discussing the real purpose of the prayer. Noah shouted, "Listen up Jewish people! The Lord is our Gd: the one and only Gd!"
Each week we are learning about a different Israeli animal and demonstrating our learning through a collaborative poster and conversation. This week we learned about the Israeli Ibex.
We watched several clips of Ibexes and summarized what we learned about the animal from each each video.
Here were two of our favorites:
Then we collaborated to design a poster that described the Israeli ibex:
This week we also did a massive Rosh Hashana taste test. In order to make sure we all have the sweetest of new years, we sampled 5 different kinds of apples and answered the following questions about each:
What is the apples texture?
What does it smell like?
What color and apple variety is it?
How sweet is it on a scale of 1-10?
How much do we like it plain on a scale of 1-10?
How much do we we like it with honey, on a scale of 1-10?
We love Golden Delicious with honey! Happy New Year!At the end of the day we explored the different varieties of shofarim and practiced our shofar notes again: Happy Birthday World!
Tekiah = one long blast
Shevarim = three medium blasts
Teruah = 9 short blasts
