Akko Municipality Education department Ministry of education Early childhood department Yitzhak project Integrating Music with Science and Jewish heritage.

Akko Municipality

Education department

Ministry of education

Early childhood department

Yitzhak project

Integrating Music with Science and Jewish heritage

Early childhood musical center Akko

Written by

Efrat Srebro

Partnership 2000

Western Galilee

“A Musical meeting near the well”

Creating musical instruments from natural materials in the spirit of the period of our father

Yitzhak

Participants:

Early childhood musical center Akko

"Parpar nechmad” kindergarten

"Alonim” kindergarten

“Hartzit” kindergarten

Western Galilee students

Main objects

• Getting acquainted with the Jewish heritage and the Biblical story in an adventure way

• Reinforcing the kindergarten children connection with their country.

• Reinforcing the relationship between parents and their children.

• Developing musical skills.• Acknowledgment with the different characters of the

natural materials• Developing creativity.

Learning the story of Yitzhak and Rebecca

The wedding of Yitzhak and Rebecca- Role playing

The girls who came to the well to pump water

“Yitzhak ,Rebecca and Abraham in the wedding”

Children painting the story

Eliezer and his camels

Rebecca and Yitzhak are getting married

Children inventing musical

instruments out of natural materials

Decorating sea shells and using them as percussion instruments

The bamboo whistle

The workshopCreating musical instruments by the spirit of

Yitzhak period in ”Parper nechmad” kindergarten class

Collecting natural material for making musical instruments

The well which was built by the teachers before the workshop

The children gathered together and decided

to write a song about Rebecca and the jar

• The words of the song:

• A jar • Went down • To the well• water • To Rebbeca• She is serving

water

Every child prepared his ”Yitzhak cloak ”

The children met their parents at the beginning of the workshop wearing their

”Yitzhak cloaks”

“THE COMPOSERS”

At the beginning of the workshop

the children performed their

“Jar song”

They organized the way the

orchestra played by themselves

The bells activity“We created sheep and wind bells like in the

old times”

The parents and the children wrote a song

about the sheep’s bell

and performed it.

The rattles activityThe children and the parents used sea shells, sand and little rocks to create the rattles.

The shepherd and his rattle

The musical jewelry of the girls near the wellOn a piece of cloth we thread all kind of natural materials and it became a musical instrument

“This is the musical chain that my father and me prepared together”

We performed in front of every body with our

chains .A PRAY (translation)

Israel is beautiful and

Holy.

Thanks God for his blessing and for giving us our country

Here we will raise our sweet children

Here we grew up and it is fun for our children in “Parpar Nechmad” kindergarten

The pottery

“We created jars and pottery boards and decorated them with words from the Bible. The students from the west Galilee college helped us”

"The pottery boards that we made "

The performance

Translation:

The pottery is in the hut and on the mountain

We can do every thing with the pottery

We work with it

We enjoy it

It is wonderful

The drums We put leather on the jars and on cardboard rolls

and we prepared drums

The drums were painted with all kind of colors including Henna colors

"This is the drum that I prepared with my father”

The drums group performance

The shepherd’s stick

“I prepared this musical shepherd

stick with my grandmother”

The performance

Translation:

We are the shepherd

Going out to the meadow

We meet near the well to give sweet water to our camels and sheep

The shepherd’s flute

The parents tied the bamboo with a rope

“This is the flute of the old time that I did with my father”

The performance

Translation:

We, the people of Israel left Egypt

played the flute in the desert , hoping for better life!

The end of the workshop: all the instruments are near the well

The children used their musical instrument in every day activities

“The voices of the well”

The musical piece which was composed by the children

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“The voices of the well”The children analyzed their music and found 10 parts in it. They

showed the structure of the melody by drawing.They made the same picture when the music was the same.

Special thanks to:

• The western Galilee students who helped us in the workshop.

• Sofi Biarsky ,the teacher of “Parpar nechmad” kindergarten class and her helper Orly Shaia ,for being so cooperative.