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Reading Together

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You can encourage the toddlers to actively join in reading the story. They can complete rhyming words, accompany the conversation between the animals with facial expressions and proper hand gestures, and make the sounds of the animals appearing in the story.

Towards welcoming Shabbat

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You can ask the toddlers: What do you like to do on Shabbat? If the family has special preparations for Shabbat, it is worthwhile to tell and share them with the toddler

Where Are The Animals?

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The book features a bee, a turtle, an ant, a chicken, a cow and a rabbit. Ask the toddlers to identify the various animals in the illustrations in the book and accompany each animal with its unique voice or add other characteristic detail: the bee hums, the rabbit bounces, the turtle crawls slowly, and the cow is mooing.

And Now - A Turtle!

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How to make a turtle with the palm of your hand? Close the palm to a fist and hide the thumb inside. Call the turtle out, take out the thumb and wave it hello. You can create a bunch of turtles with all the palms present at home You can also be a turtle yourself and walk slowly on all fours. Are you tired? Get inside to rest in your “home”.

Pinterest

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– Pinterest – Crafts, songs and other activities on the “The Shabbat In The Forest” book page in Sifriyat Pijama on Pinterest

Reading and hugging

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While reading a story, you can hug each time a new animal joins the group.  You can also play the hugging game: move away from each other, count “three, four,” and then run to each other, and hug!

It’s crowded but that doesn’t matter!

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Invite the rest of the family to sit together with you on the couch, on the carpet or on a mattress. You can also include dolls or pets. Sit close together, then further away, and check: how pleasant is the closeness?

What sound do I make?

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How does a dog bark? How does a cat meow? and how does a cow moo? –  Toddlers can join can join in to the animals in the story.

Would you like to bring another animal in? And what sound would that animal make?

Sing about cabbage

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“I sat on a cabbage” is a song that you can sing, add movements to, dance to and clap your hands to.

The song will upload when you scan the code:

QR – I Sat On a Cabbage – Scan the code and sing together!

Pinterest

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Pinterest – Crafts, songs and activities on the “I Sat On a Cabbage” book page in Sifriyat Pijama’s Pinterest site.