Who created the best Exodus multi-dimensional large scale diorama? Omanut!

Shalom,

We have so many things to be grateful for this season-- hope that your Thanksgiving break vacation time was wonderful! We managed to finish the Mi Chamocha diorama that takes over 4 tables (!) just before we left for the holiday break. We will be doing some writing and putting dialogue to our large diorama - which is quite impressive, if I do say so myself-- but you have to see it to believe it!

The Omanut students want to make a little video to show along side our finished piece, and we will spend a bit of time to record them as the characters that they made from clay and other mediums to show during the video montage at the end of the year during our Omanut Art Show.

We have had peaceful Nechama Yoga with Miss Kendra, fun and energizing Music time with our new weekday song leader, Eric , and well as continuing to move and groove while learning Ivrit- Hebrew Through Movement!- with the awesome duo of Tammy and Yardena.
Looking forward to Hanukkah and Bring-a-Friend Day later this month...
Keep being creative! We sure will!
B'shalom,
Heather

One of the videos that we watched from BimBam.com served as a great inspiration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKp6y2Lpgxg



*I've attempted to upload a large series of pictures for 2+ hours now,  unfortunately my computer is not cooperating! Because I want you all to be as caught up as possible, i've decided to publish this now; I will add photos of the amazing Omanut students working hard from start to finish on our diorama as soon as I can access my pictures to do so!*

Exodus Multi-media Project

Shalom!

 

It was a beautiful day to start working on our project centering around Exodus yesterday! During our discussion we broke up into small groups and decided who would work on which part of our large- but small scale!- representation of our ancestors escaping from Egypt after the plagues to head to the promised land of Israel through the desert. "Mi Chamocha" is a very special part of our Tefillah time and we will be incorporating that part of Torah into our piece as well. 

Everyone has been listening to each other and sharing ideas for the mixed media that we will be using and, if we are able, several students want to do a video for us to share- stop motion style! If any parents are adept at stop motion effects with lego, clay and lots of paint and paper, please let me know! We'd love for you to join us when our project is complete in a couple of weeks. 😀

We watched this video yesterday about Nachshon and this should give you a little peek into what we will be doing! 

http://www.g-dcast.com/nachshon/

Thanks so much for your support and for raising such great kids who make my days at JQuest so awesome and fulfilling as an educator! I love being their teacher! 

See you soon,

Heather 

Look what we did!

Shalom, everyone!

We did it-- we put together our "Shalom" outdoor art installment this week and it was very well-received by our whole Temple Isaiah community! (Even the Gan Ilan preschool kids were curious and now want to make an outdoor piece of art themselves, which I will be working on with them soon!) In case you are more curious about the exact artwork that we focused on emulating, here is a link to Mel Alexenberg's installment, featured on his website.

http://www.melalexenberg.com/artwork.php?id=1

Here are some pictures of the end result, be on the lookout for another pop up from Omanut soon!

We have been having fun music time with Revital- here is an example of Omanut in action!

Next in our Omanut studio, we will be bringing Exodus to life, as we enter the "Torah" portion of curriculum. We talked about many ways to showcase what we have been talking about and decided that a scene based on Mi Chamocha will be a large part of our next project.
Can't wait to start working on it, and since it is fairly large and detailed, we will be concentrating that for the next couple of weeks.
Be well! Until next time,
Heather