Rosh Hashanah
Our Big idea
Hashem (G-d) loves us and protects us just like a parent.
Rosh Hashanah is the time that we ask Hashem to be our King again. He is also like our father! He loves us, reassures us and protects us!
How can we bring this message home to our 2-4 year olds?
To help the children understand Hashem's love, we made the connection between the love they feel from their real mother and father, to the love Hashem has for each of us.
Each parent sent in a 'love video' to their child.
Their reactions were precious! Some of them were talking back to the video "I love you too mommy"
Throughout the day we got some requests to replay their parents love video, understandably :)
Draw your feelings
We placed pictures of their parents on the table with paper and markers. It was up to them what they wanted to document. Some made a picture of their parents, some children drew what they like to do with their parents. This was a great way to invite the children to verbalize with others the love they have with their parents.
Baby center
Diapers, babies, band aids were placed in the dramatic center as an invitation to role play how much care a parent has for us as children.
A cry of a shofar
Now it was time to connect it to Rosh Hashanah! What happens when a child cries out?
What does the parent do? After a couple of days of talking about our parents they knew just what to answer! A parent listens to the cry and figures out what they need.
We played the shofar and asked what does it sound like? " A cry!"
What will Hashem do as our 'parent'?? "listen to us! He loves us"
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| Baby Chana Rochel helped act this out. |
We role played how to respond to a friend crying. We talked about how we need to listen to another persons needs and show them our love. Max doing what he does best and trying to make his friend laugh. Rozie gave Motty a big hug to make him feel better.
Shofar Audio center
We would like to wish a Mazel Tov to Rozie for turning 3
and Levi for turning 4!!
Good Shabbos!
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