Yesterday proved to be an "action-packed" day for our Edot students. We started the session learning three folk dances: "Hora Nirkoda" (which means, "Let's Dance a Hora"), "Mayim" (the Water dance), and the Turkish Kiss, a dance to a very popular Turkish song. Alan King, our dance instructor, has been leading Israeli dancing at Temple Isaiah and other Bay Area venues for several decades, and amazingly was able to teach us all three dances within a 20-minute period.
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| A good run is a terrific warm-up activity before dancing |
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| Learning the "grapevine" (a/k/a the "Mayim") step |
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| A circle within a circle, for the "Hora Nirkoda" dance |
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| The final part of the "Mayim" dance is showing how the water we "found" is distributed to the crops with a sprinkler system - arms and legs are waving like the sprinklers |
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| Learning the first move of the "Turkish Kiss" dance |
We were hot and thirsty after dancing for 20 minutes straight. Once up in the classroom, we quenched our thirst and opened the windows for fresh air. Everyone had a chance to rest while I read a chapter from "Out of Many Waters" (I had to stop every now and then - still trying to catch my breath!)
Once rested, we moved into Room 202, which was all set up for our "Hebrew Through Movement" activities. I introduced several new vocabulary words this session: l'hatzbiya (point at), al (on), tachat (under), and al yad (next to). We had a lot of fun with the new words!
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| Banot La'Koom (Girls stand up) |
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| Achshav rak Mora Charna (now only teacher Charna) - modeling the new vocabulary |
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| La'shevet al ha'shulchan (Sit on the table) |
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| La'shevet al yad ha'delet (sit next to the door) |
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| La'shevet al yad ha'kiseh (sit next to the chair) |
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| L'hatzbiya al ha'delet (point to the door) |
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| David, la'shevet al ha'shulchan (David, sit on the table); Aaron, la'shevet tachat ha'shulchan (Aaron, sit under the table) |
We finished the session with exercise for our fingers - preparing the table of contents page for the Shabbat Seder booklets we're making. These booklets will be used during our upcoming Family Shabbat Seder, on Friday evening, January 25th. The table of contents page describes the rituals we perform to greet the Sabbath on Friday evening. Each student has been asked to draw a symbolic picture for each ritual. To do so, they have to learn the order of the rituals and what each ritual entails. To help them learn, I gave each student a copy of our "Welcoming Shabbat at Temple Isaiah" booklet, which describes each ritual. The students accomplished quite a bit in the 20 or so minutes we had remaining to the session - some even managed to complete the page. I'm always impressed with the quality of work they put into the projects.
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| Hmm - which part of "Preparing for Shabbat" (the first ritual) should I draw? |
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| Working with pencil before coloring in the drawing |
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| Can you tell from the drawing what the second ritual is? |
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| Reading about the Candle Lighting ritual in the booklet |
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| You can't get much more focused than these guys! |
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