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Day 2 -
Swimming day
Photo Gallery: Day 1-2
Hebrew word of the day (Be'vakashah) -
please!
Art project: Mezuzahs. What to learn about
Mezuzahs? Go to
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/mezuzah1.html
Cooking session: Today we made pizza!!!
Story time: After playing at the pool with our
counselors we lied down on the shade and listened to John
who read us a Disney book.
Special guest: Ms. Heather Freedman taught us new
dance to the Israeli song "Halleluiah". Heather was our
counselor last year and we were soooo happy to see her
again. We are looking forward for her next program.
Memory book: We drew, wrote, and told our friend
about our favorite part of the day, which was swimming.
Day 3 -
I want
you to meet my family
Photo Gallery: Day 3
Hebrew word of the day (slichah) – Sorry!
Special
guest:
Rabbi Henry Karp talked to us about the members of our
family. We shared what we like the most about our family
and what we like to do together. Rabbi also taught us a
song with all the Hebrew name of the family members.
Thank you rabbi. We had a wonderful time!!!
Art
project:
Family Tree. We found some leaves and twigs. Then
we drew our family members and created a Hebrew family
tree.
Hebrew
letter:
The mighty cheetahs learned to write the letter
ב'
(Beit). We learned the following words start with the
letter
ב:
home (bait), balloon (balon), Duck (barvaz), egg (beitzah),
and banana (banana).
Cooking session: Today we made falafel!!! We also
ate it for lunch.
Story
time:
After our cooking session Hagit laid down at the books
center and asked us to read her a story. Since we can’t
read, we made up our own story about us going to Israel.
Memory
book:
We drew, wrote, and told our friend about our favorite
part of the day.
Day 4
– Niabi Zoo
Photo
Gallery: Day 4
Hebrew word of the day (Chayot) – Animals!
Special tour:
Tom from Niabi Zoo gave us a special tour of two
exhibits, which are going to be open in two weeks. Tom
also took us to the elephant’s area. We saw the elephants
taking a bath.
Train
ride:
We took the train that runs around the zoo. We also had a
ride on the animal carousel.
Art
project:
Animal mask: We made our own animal mask and wore it while
we were walking around the zoo.
Education Center:
At
the end of the day we visited the education center at the
zoo. We listened to stories about animals, painted animal
coloring papers, played, and looked at the different
animals at the center.
Day
5
– Jewish Holidays
Photo Gallery: Day 5
Hebrew word of the day (Chagim) – Holidays!
Dance Program: Heather Freedman came again to
work with us on our dance. We practiced the whole week,
and she was very happy to see how well we did. We are the
best dancers in town!!!
Art project: Passover plate. We learned about
all the symbols of the Passover plate and made models of
it.
Hebrew letter: The mighty cheetahs learned to write
the letter
ג'
(Gimmel).
We learned the following words start with the letter
gimmel: garden (gan), camel (gammal), carrot (gazer).
Cooking session: Today we baked Challah for Shabbat!!!
Story time: We had a special storyteller today –
Mrs. Babs Treiber. She told us fun interesting
stories. One story was about the Hanukkah magic bowl.
Face painting: We talked about Purim and then John
and Hagit painted on our face different animals. We scared
our parents when they came to pick us up.
Memory book: We drew, wrote, and told our friend
about our favorite part of the day, which was playing with
water outside. This was our Shavuot program.
Our
dear friend Isaac and his family hosted us for the
Havdalah program. We had a wonderful time playing with our
friends from camp and their families.
Mr. David Franks gave us a tour at their farm. We saw some
huge tractors. The wheels were much taller than us. Then
we visited the calf, which is only two months old. Isaac
tried to feed it but the calf wasn’t hungry.
Mrs. & Mr. Franks grilled for us meat from their own farm
and some kosher hot dogs. Our families brought different
dishes that we shared with our friends. We had a great
meal. When we were done eating we said Birkat Ha-mazon.
We thanked G-d for our food.
We also made our own spices for the Havdalah service.
Our counselors chose some fun poems about children, and
they read those for us during the Havdalah service. We
said the blessings of the fruit of the vine, spices, fire
(light), and separating the holy (Shabbat) from the
ordinary (week days).
THANK YOU VERY MUCH DAVID, KATIE, ISAAC AND BEN!!!
Day
7
– New Friend at Camp Nesher
Photo
Gallery: Day 7
Hebrew word of the day
(Chaverim) – Friends!
New
friends:
Today four new friends joined us for camp. We welcomed
them in Hebrew. Camp is even more fun than before with our
new friends.
Dance
Program:
Heather Freedman taught us the last part of our dance. We
worked very hard and finished learning the dance. Now it’s
time to practice like professional dancers do.
Art
project:
Tzdakah Box. We learned about the importance of helping
others. We talked about Tikun Olam (repairing the world).
Then we made Tzdakah boxes. We are going to collect money
in our boxes and then give it to people who need it.
Hebrew letter:
The mighty cheetahs learned to write the letter
ד'
(Dalet). We learned the following words start with the
letter dalet: door (delet), fish (dug), bear (dov), and
post office (doar).
Cooking session:
Today we made pizza again. We loved making the dough. We
made our pizza in different shapes: Jewish star, heart
etc.
Social games:
Our dear friend, Mrs. Joni Geifman came to play with us
again. We had a lot of fun with Joni. We always do.
Memory book:
We drew, wrote, and told our friend about our favorite
part of the day.
DAY 8 – Swimming
Photo
Gallery: Day 8
Hebrew
word of the day
(Keif) – Fun!!
Art project:
We made our own Talit. We designed our Talit, and
then our counselors ironed our initials on it.
To learn more about Talit go
to:
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Tallis.html
Hebrew
letter:
Today we learned how to read and write the letter “Hey”.
We also learned the following words that start with the
letter hey: Har (mountain), hatzagah (a play), and
Hipopotam (hippo).
Special
guest:
Cantor Gail Karp visited us today. She sang with us
familiar songs and taught us new songs in Hebrew and
English. We love to sing and had a wonderful time with the
Cantor.
Movie:
After lunch it started to rain… actually it was great,
because then we watched a funny movie about Hanukkah.
We snuggled in the blankets and enjoyed the air
conditioning as well.
Swimming:
Before and after the rain we had many opportunities to
swim, so we did! We played with each other and our
counselors in the water and enjoyed the many pool toys.
Day
9
– Maccabia
Hebrew words of the day
(kachol) Blue, (adom) Red
Today was a very special day. We were divided to two
groups: blue and red. We chose names for our groups:
The Blue Zionists and
The Red Maccabees!
We
had competitions all day long:
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Group
cheer: we sang our cheers loud as we could throughout the
day.
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Group
signs design: we made huge signs on fabric and smaller
posters.
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We
drank plenty of water.
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Outside games: tennis ball toss, Frisbee, tug-o-war, and
splish splish splash!!
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Cake
decoration: the Bblue Zionists made an Israeli flag and
the Red Maccabees made a red Star of David with
marshmallows around it.
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Songs
contest: John and Hagit gave us words and we had to find
as many songs as possible that include the words in them.
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Games
at the social hall
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Teamwork: we cleaned our classrooms and the social hall
while helping friends and working as a team.
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We
also got points during the day for encouraging the other
group.
Mitzvah Tree
– mitzvah is a good deed (helping friend, saying the
blessings etc). We mention every day at the end of the day
all the mitzvoth we did that day at camp or the night
before at home. Our tree is already full with mitzvoth.
Today we did more mitzvoth than any other day at camp. Our
counselors were very proud of us.
We are sooooo famous – a reporter came today to write
about our camp. The photographer took pictures of us while
we were singing and the reporter interviews some of us. It
was very nice to talk to the reporter and tell her about
camp.
Day
10
– Family Museum & Library
Hebrew word of the day
(Muzeon) Museum!
What a great day!!
We started our day at the Family Museum. After a short
tour, we had a lot of time to experience all the
interesting activities at the museum.
After our snack break, we watched two plays by the Junior
High Theater. We loved it and clapped really loud when
they were done.
We had some more time to enjoy the museum and after lunch
we did an art project: picture frame. Decorated
picture frame with markers and stickers. Tomorrow we will
take the frame home with our camp picture in it. That
would be a fun memory.
Then we went to the library - we had a tour, and
then Ms. Crystal taught us two fun songs and told us two
stories about Jewish holidays (Shavuot and Hanukkah). When
she was done we said TODA (thank you) and wrote about our
favorite activity of the day>
We enjoyed some free time at the library. Listen to
stories, watched the fish, and found interesting books. As
soon as we started to be a little bit too active, Heather
showed up and practiced our dance for tomorrow. What do
you mean why? We have a party with our families...
hello!!!
So, at 3 p.m. we were happy, our counselors were exhausted
and our parents came to pick us up.
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