After spending some time discussing and singing about apples and honey, we brought a new fruit in. A pomegranate another fruit we customarily eat on Rosh Hashana.
Some friends got very passionate about how much they like pomegranate and some didn't know what it was.
Sholom came up to show us which he thought had more seeds.
Discovering and dissecting apples and pomegranates. This answered a lot of questions of how they were different. This was a great fine motor activity using tweezers to get the seeds out.
During our morning center activity we found a seed that was sprouting.
Getting to taste both and differentiating the different flavors.
Giving our bearded dragon some apples to taste too!
What do we learn from a pomegranate?
Esther creating her pomegranate project with A LOT of red pieces and learning how there are so many seeds inside!
To bring this lesson home each child was invited to put their mitzvah notes inside their pomegranate.
Shofar- the sound of a cry
A baby doll came to visit us at circle time and started crying. What can we do? How can we care?
Esther came up to show us what she would do to help.
A shofar is like a cry out to Hashem. We are talking to Hashem who loves us and will take care of us.
Adelle helping her baby doll blow the shofar :)
Sholom drawing 'His tatty's shofar"
Visual shofar sounds
Learning happens visually for some children.
While learning the different types of sounds.
A long sound- Tekia, three medium sounds- shevarim, nine short ones- Teruah.
We placed black tape and misc. objects to invite the children to 'create' the sounds.
Chanie sewing her shofar!
Shofar audio center
We found friends coming over and blowing the shofar along with it.
Arik using his thumb to make a bee on his Rosh Hashanah mat.
Making round Challahs
Eitan getting excited about his Rosh Hashana projects!
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