What are challot, kippah and havdalah candles?
• Continue from last session. In ‘circle time’ share work. Discuss key questions and write responses on cards (individually) to put in middle of circle – record these. [Make a class book of the special times poems and add recorded card responses] • Introduce the idea of a special time for the Jewish family and watch parts of the video on Shabbat (see below). Read the creation story from Hebrew Bible. Discuss the idea of a special day ‘set aside’ and its connections with the Creation story. Ask children what similarities and differences there are to their own special family days. Add to responses in class book. (See session 4.) • Examine artefacts (challah loaves, candle, spice box, kippah) and discuss what they are and how they are used at Shabbat. In groups, make salt-dough challah loaves and/or a havdalah candle and/or paper kippah. (Arrange to have helpers.) • Using a set of photocopied pictures, sequence key events of Shabbat and add titles. (These could be provided.) Using the art
