Parshas Chayei Sara

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Here is a quick 30 second summary of the parsha featuring our puppets available for download.

We learned all about camels, how much water they drink. We learned about the 3 miracles of Sara's tent and focused on Challah.

To bring out the point of how much work it was for Rivka to gather enough water for 10 camels, I had students come up and spoon water out of a bucket into a small "trough". They saw how long it took and I said, can you imagine how much work it was for Rivka to feed all these camels?!!

Parshas Chayei Sara Crafts

We made camel handprints and use a paintbrush to create the humps. When it was dry, we added a face, tail and trough with marker. We also focused on the number 10 and sequenced camels from 1-10.

We created Sarah's tent. They traced a triangle and cut it out. placed "clouds" made of cotton balls on the tent. The candles are made of pipe cleaner and foam tubes. We learned how to braid challah using model magic. When it was dry, they colored the challah brown with marker. 

 We made Challah from scratch! We all helped make the dough and learned how to braid the challah which we brought home for shabbos.

Me'aras Hamachpela

In this week's parsha, Avraham purchases Me'aras Hamachpela from Ephron in Chevron to bury Sara Imeinu.

Download our Me'arat Hamachpela packet. Includes a full color image, a coloring page and mini puppets of the 4 couples buried there, in Chevron. Adam and Chava, Avraham and Sara, Yitzchak and Rivka and Yaakov and Leah.

Parsha Drawing Journal

Every week, we draw a picture of the parsha (I always did it before shabbos party after reviewing the parsha of the week) and send it home at the end of the Chumash. I love that the children get to tell the story of the parsha in their own words. It is remarkable to see how much their handwriting and drawing skills improve from the beginning to the end of the book.

Download the Parsha drawing journal here.

Parshas Chayei Sara links

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