| CHAYA SARA- YITZCHOK GETS MARRIED! |
| Yitzchok gets older and it is time for him to get married. Looking for 'just the right one' Avraham sends his servant, Eliezer, to search for a nice, kind girl. Travelling in the dessert Eliezer is hot and thirsty. He reaches a town and a well. Davenning to Hashem for help in the search, he makes a sign. If a girl will offer me AND my camels a drink of water that is the one. Rivka comes to the well, and offers him water. She goes back and forth to the well for his camels too. She is chosen, goes onto the camels and marries yitzchok! |
| Since Rivka was given jewelry before she got married..... Making Jewlery (great 4 stringing skills) out of colored ratoni- |
| Practicing feeding all those camels in our pouring balancing center. |
| Many people discuss the whole idea of weddings at this point. *Bring in pictures of the childrens' mommy and daddy getting married. *Have a mock wedding *Show a wedding video *Put on music and dance with a 'rivka and yitzchok characters. |
| Create camels, large ones. paint them. Discuss with the children how the camels last so long in the desert. You can even make a flap in the camels hump and place something in there(bule-water or fat) to show that that is where they store it. |
| When Rivka marries Yitzchok, three special things enter their home. Challah stays fresh from week to week. Candles (Shabbat Candles) stay lit from week to week. A cloud rested on their tent. Either make a tent with all three things inside. Bake challah with your kids..... |
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| THE WELL This is by far the cutest part of the parsha. It is a great experience and a real hands on activity for the children. People have different ways to make wells. Most importantly make sure the one you send home with the children....WORKS! That they can turn the handle to pick up the bucket and lower it. Version 1: I'll try to explain it clearly...and attach a picture....if you still don't understand the enginering email and ask. Using a clear plastic bowl, have the children glue blue tissue paper (cut up bits of different shades) into the bowl. Due the same into a little lechayim clear cup. Cut strips of oaktag, and have the children color/decorate them. Then put it together like this. Attach the oaktag like a handle to the bowl, stapling it to the side of the bowl. Punch a hole through one side and the other of the oaktag and stick a straw (bendable top) through the two holes, so that the straw is now parallel to the bowl, horizontally Attach a piece of s string to the lechayim cup and that other end to the straw (with a piece of tape). Now it is complete. When you turn the straw handle (The bended side being the handle) the cup will go up and down. TIP: if the children turn it a lot the straw might go through the hole. to avoid this staple the straw (the non handle side) shut and it will be too wide to go through the hole.! |
| Cute well to make that is eddible is with wafers, broken into three as building blocks. Shape of a stop sign, layer it in between each other, right ontop. Attach with marshmellow fluf and place a preztal stik straight across with a string and lechayim cup attatched for the same affect!.. |
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| Other versions of the well on the right, is to make it out of a box bottom, such as the bottom half of an orange juice container. Attach two tounge depressers as sticks, straight up and a paper plate, folded in half and stapeled to the tounge depressers.... To make it move, punch holes, add straws, string and cup as it says on the right.! |
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| CREATE A REAL WELL! Don't forget to make a real one with water inside, so the children can learn the mechanics. Quuite easy. Take any bottom container ranging from a bucket to an empty fish tank. Cut out a long strip of a paper box (hard ) and attach as a handle to the bottom container. Punch two holes, one on each side and use any stick. (A branch outside, the pole from your broom in your dramatic play aread....) Stick it through and attatch a string to it (lots of tape). Take a plastic cup make a hole on the top and tie the string to it. (if you use tape, the water will seek in and it won't attatch for too long). fill with water and us it for real! The kids love it!! |
| CHANT: WHO WILL BE THE ONE (X2) WHO WILL BE THE ONE FOR YITCHAK TO MARRY? WILL IT BE_______? (X3) (fill in names of kids in your class) NO NO NO! WILL IT BE RIVKAH? YES YES YES! RIVKA IS THE ONE (X2) RIVKAH IS THE ONE FOR YITCHAK TO MARRY. SHE IS KIND, SHE IS NICE SHE IS JUST RIGHT! (Add motions and it becomes a finger play) |
| SONG: TTTO I HAVE A LITTLE DREIDEL Eliezer said to Rivka "I'm thirsty yest it's true" Rivka gave him water, and the camels too! Oh rivka, rivkah, rivkah,....rivkah married yitzchok (x3) |
| SONG: TTTO where is thumpkin? Where is rivka (x2)? She is at the well (x2) "Here's some water" (x2) "for your camels as well" (x2) Rivka and Yitchok got married (x2) Mazel tov we sing! (x2) Rivka and yitchok got married (x2) Mazel tov we sing! (x2) |
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