I made a mistake, now what?

The children have been so inspired about their 'sweet' actions from our Rosh Hashanah unit, but what happens when we make a mistake??

 Does Hashem, parents or our friends still love us even when we make a mistake?

David and Dina help us out

Puppets are a powerful tool for children to relate to. 

We explored many scenarios of when we make mistakes,  especially focused on when we hurt our friends or their feelings.

This is such a crucial stage to learn empathy towards one another and this whole week we focused on being in tune with our feelings as well as our friends.

I'm Sorry 

What does it mean to say, "I'm sorry"?

 As adults, we are often quick to demand from a child "say I'm sorry" and then it's all better. But is it? Does it mean anything to the child saying it, if he's being told to? Does it mean anything to the other person who is hurting?

We learned how to empathize with the other friend by observing and understanding what they are feeling. Even though saying sorry is important, we learned it doesn't end there.

 Does the friend need help getting up?  Are my friends' feelings hurt? Is there something I can say to uplift my friends  spirits? 

  

A miscommunication at the play dough table created hurtful feelings. It was so beautiful to watch Rozie and Motty communicate and then make sure they were each happy! They turned it into a sweet episode and headed to the sweet board:)! 

Yom Kippur Shul

 On Yom Kippur we daven that all of our mistakes be forgiven. We created a mini shul center in our class for the children to role play davening in a shul. This was a great way to learn how we behave in a shul!

Rabbi Moshe leading the services as his friends follow along in their siddurim.

Dedicated Rabbi Moshe was found in shul even after all his friends were done. ;)

 

 On Yom Kippur we don't wear leather shoes. We placed slippers in the shul for the children to role play.

 Creating their own 'croc' slippers by punching holes in their slippers. Dovi and Evan trying different techniques to create holes.

 

 Ari counting his holes.

 

 On Yom Kippur we see a lot of white clothing. Tallit, Kitul (customarily worn) some women wear white. We placed pictures for inspiration with a lot of different white items.

 We placed a Machzor (special prayer book for Yom Kippur) and looked at all the Alef Beis inside. 

Menachem and Motty creating different letters in sugar.

 

 Mendel tracing different Hebrew letters.