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I scream! You scream! We all scream for ice cream!

Bouncy Castle! Jump! Jump! Jump!

Thank you Zachary’s mommy and Liat’s mommy for coming to camp last week for a Shabbat sing-a-long!

Circus dance with Miss Melissa!

Pajama Day!!! Dance party in our PJ’s!

Pizza in Pajamas!

Off to see the fire truck! (In our PJ’s of course!)

High five to the fireman!

Then we got to go inside!

The fireman’s special clothing isn’t scary, we thought they were pretty cool!

We got a fireman hat too!

Popcorn Painting!

We used water droppers to color the cotton balls yellow so that they look like popcorn.

Time for a Carnival! Check out the different games we played…

Decorate a cupcake center:

Make a Clown center:

Bowling! Can you get a strike?

What would a carnival be without face painting?

What a great summer, we had so much fun and we hope we will see you all next summer!

#WE LOVE CAMP COCHAVIM!

It’s animal week at Camp Cochavim, and we kicked it off with a super awesome trip to the Turtle Back Zoo!

What do you see?! A lion!

It’s penguin feeding time!

Snack time…time for some animal crackers!

We love the zoo!

Train ride! Weeeee!

Painting lion faces…ROAR!!!!

Morning painting stamping center

Morning train center

We decided to make our own train! Choo choo! All aboard!

Snack time

Jump, jump, jump!

Animal print free art!

Rosh Hashana is coming up so soon, and since we blow the shofar on Rosh Hashana, we got to see how the shofar is made! The shofar doesn’t grow from the ground, or from a tree…it grows on a kosher animal’s head!

First, we took the bone out of the shofar…pull real hard!

Next, we had to measure to see how much of the end we need to cut off to make a hole

Time to cut the end off!

Drill a small hole

We need to make the hole just a bit bigger now…

Sand it down

Now we’re ready to blow the shofar!

This week is all about Community Helpers. We read a new book about doctors, fire fighters, policemen and builders. We got to be like a policeman and first aid responders when we got a chance to go inside a real police car and ambulance! It was so much fun!

At the park!

Let’s meet Officer Kevin

He gave us special police stickers!

Sitting in the police car! How special!

Oh no! They’re in the jail seat!

During community helper week, we also learned about farmers. We learned that the farmers grow the fruits and vegetables that we eat. Morah Sherry brought in a GIANT zucchini that grew in her garden to show us. We even got to taste it!

In our garden at camp!

We found a radish in in the ground (in the “Adama”). Now we know that we can say the bracha “HaAdama” on vegetables that grow from the ground.

Thumbs up if you like the taste of the zucchini!

An ambulance came to camp! Don’t worry, no one had any “boo-boo’s” they just came for fun!

Look, see how the stretcher comes out? Then they can slide it back in the truck

The siren was so loud!

Circle Time!

Shema Yisrael…

We colored in the coloring books we got from the Ambulance!

An Ambulance came to camp and we got to go inside!

T.T.T.O. It’s raining it’s pouring the old man is snoring…

It’s pouring it’s raining,

But we are not complaining,

Rain is a bracha from Hashem

And we love geshem!

There are so many things to do when it’s raining outside! Take a look at what we did!

Rain craft

Taking a rain picture for our craft

Having fun in the playground

Look at the bubble wands we made out of pipe cleaners to blow bubbles!

We learned all about the mitzvah of Tzedakah and colored our own Tzedakah boxes

Making playdough in a bag!

We love the outdoor classroom!

After collecting some mud, we came inside to play with the toy cars in the mud. It was so much fun!!!

Of course we had to add some paint to the mud too!

High five anyone?

Painting a mitzvah tree!

Peek-a-boo! I see you!

Classroom fun and games

We went on a Mezuzah walk! How many Mezuzas did you find?

Scoot scoot scoot on the scooters!

Squish the shaving cream with your fingers

Simcha Stars painted bricks for the Beis Hamikdash. Every time we do a mitzvah, we’ll get to add a brick to the Beis HaMikdash wall

Free play fun

After making the toy cars all dirty in the mud and paint, we made a car wash with shaving cream and washed them all in it

We also washed our smocks!

THANK YOU MORAH RACHELLE FOR THE AMAZING BASKETBALL NET, WE LOVE IT!!!

He shoots, and he scores!

Slam dunk!

Sorting fun!

Painting and mixing colors…

Genius Gems field trip!

We built a whole wall made of magna-tiles!

Look what we made!!!

See those little robots? They followed the line that we made with the marker…

Building robots

We opened the mystery box and we found…..

We used different materials to make our own little robot friends!

Free art center

Dot dot marker fun!

Having a blast in the gym!

We made our own telescopes

Miss Melissa dances with us!

Galloping like horses

Painting penny spinning tops

We did a penny experiment to see if we can make the pennies shine.

We put the the pennies in vinegar

The sun is very very hot so we tried melting chocolate chips with the sun

We have to wait to see if they will melt…

While we wait, we play!

We also made OOBLIK (a.k.a. cornstarch and water)

We waited long enough, so it’s time to check on our chocolate chips…they melted!

We dipped bananas in the melted chocolate for a yummy snack

Yummy!

Mad Scientist show! I wonder what experiments we will do

We tried smelling the first ingredient, vinegar. Give a thumbs up if it smells yummy, or thumbs down if it’s not so yummy

Safety first: goggles, check! Glove, check!

Ahhhh! It’s starting to bubble!

Now we’re going to make some slime…

What does it feel like?

And now, for our final experiment…

How high do you think the coke will fly to?

Mixing colors

OOBLIK on the car?!

OOBLIK on your nose?!

We did a test to see which colors will run and mix together when we spray it with water? Will it be the crayons, or the markers?