CUXX-6

CU PKK K-1:5. The Spice Box Goal: Students will learn about the Jewish use of spice boxes to make us feel better after a happy time has come to an end and we don’t feel quite as happy. Materials – spice box, spices, (smell jars - apple juice, lemon juice, vinegar, powder sugar, paper cups, gauze, rubber bands), 1. ** Gain attention of the learner: ** (Before class make some smell jars. Get five cups and cut up or pour some of the following ingredients in a baby food jar or a cup: talcum powder, apple juice, lemon juice, vinegar, and powder sugar. Cover each container with gauze or a tissue and fasten with a rubber band. Number each one so that you can refer back to them.). Pass the jars around, but ask the children not to talk about them, just to smell them. 2. ** Review relevant past learning: ** How many different ways can your students describe that show how people welcome in a new year? 3. ** Present new material: ** During the Yom Kippur service, we pass around a spice box to lift our spirits and help us feel good. Pass around the spice box and ask them to describe the fragrance. The spice box was used to wish people a sweet beginning to the workweek. Spice boxes are also passed around at the end of Shabbat. 4. ** Provide guided practice: ** Smells help remind us of different things and help us feel in different ways. Pass the smell jars around again. Ask the students to guess the smell. Write the number of the container on the board. List the smell guesses on the chalkboard and then ask the students to relate the smells to specific feelings. (i.e. sweet smells help you feel good, a sour behavior … ) 5. ** Provide independent practice: ** Sometimes smells remind us of different things. Ask your students to think of their favorite things to eat or do with someone special in their family like baking cookies, walking in the woods, or being at the beach. Each student should take turns sharing his/her smell memory connections. 6. ** Close the lesson: ** Review the New Year rituals with the spice box in the Folkshul.