We had fun helping make a very yummy bean soup. We made soup in honor of this weeks letter, S. And because, in this weeks parsha, Yaakov cooked a bean soup. Eisav hungrily gulped down the soup without using table manners.
Blind people use their hands, or their sense of touch, to see things. We had to use our hands to tell us what was hiding in side the mystery touch box. We realized that our hands cant see the colors of things even though they are very helpful for telling us what something is. Some of us thought that we would know the color or pattern of the hidden objects without using our eyes. Now we know that blind poeple never know what color or design things are.
There were three miricales associated with Sara. The cloud above her tent, the candles that burned all week, and the Challah that stayed fresh all week. To remember the miricale of the challah, we baked Challah. We also started having rotating our special Shabbat Box. Every child gets a chance to take it home for a weekend and enjoy it with his/her family. In it is a Shabbos matching game, a special Shabbos story, candles, kiddus cup, challah cover (and usually some challah as well). There is also a journal that goes along with it. In it, we encourage you to write your family's experience. We read the new journal entry at the Shabbat party we have in school every friday.