Feb. 21 2011 Caesaria Trip

Today, my two friends Anna, Ronit ,I and our moms went to Caesaria. In Caesaria there are huge ruins from around 2000 years ago.

First we walked on a little path with old stone structures we could walk on.

   Then we continued walking on the path, and we came to an old bath house. Here's me washing my hair.

   The bath house also had really pretty mosaic floors.

             We even saw people recovering more of the bath house.

                      Then we saw the beach, the waves were so big !

         After that we saw were the chariot races had taken place. We saw that it was all flooded, so we didn't go in.

 

Then we went to the

Then we went to the Amphitheater. Here is a picture from the bottom of me and Anna at the top of the seets it is very tall!

                                                                            

               The theater is still used in the summer time.

              On the way back we saw some building with some ancient writing on it.              

                               It was pretty fun!!            

                                                                                                                

Feb. 14 2011 tiyul

Today, instead of school, I went on a tiyul with my family.
First, we went to this bee place. First our tour guide showed us how honey bees help flowers get married(the bee rubs in the pollen of one flower then gos to another flower, the other flower makes it's fruit, in the fruit there are  seeds...) Then he showed us how when he gets the honey comb he takes the honey out and cleans it. He gave us a little cup of fresh honey to taste.

     He also showed us that honey from different kinds of flowers looks different.

               
He put on his special clothes and then he showed us the bees.

 Then he talked a little bit about silk worms.  He told us that silk worms are like caterpillars, just when they make the cocoon it is made out of silk, and when they turn to butterflies, you boil the used cocoon and then they can pull it apart, put it on a machine that spun it and make silk.
                                                    Before being boiled...

                                                       And after.

   

    When we were about to leave we saw a beautiful peacock.

                        

  After the tour, we went on a beautiful hike on Mount Tabor. When we were driving up the mountain, we pulled over on the side of the winding road to look at the view.

                             
When we got to the top, we decided to take a hike around the top of the mountain.  During the walk, we saw some pretty cool caves.

  Close to the end of the walk we saw what we think was a crytp. I took some pictures thru a window.

                            
                                        It was a pretty cool hike!          
                                        
                 At the top of the hill there was a huge church. At the end of the hike we went in.

 Here's a picture of the ceiling:

                                           

Feb. 7 2011 Willy Wonka

Today at Tzofim, we started out with some games.  We made a flag and then we found (Yally really showed us) a note from Willy Wonka. It said, something that I didn't understand.  But I could tell it was about chocolate. We chose a name for our group and I can't remember what it is, but it was something about chocolate. And we started making fondue by putting chocolate and butter in a pot over a candle.

At first, it would not get hot enough, because the fire was not that big. We waited for about 20 minutes waiting for the chocolate to melt, wondering what we were going to dip in the fondue.  It turned out to be marshmallows.
Yum!

The chocolate just wasn't getting warm so we decided to go inside because it was windy.  We went inside, waited about 5 minutes, and when the chocolate really wasn't melting, we decided to put it in the microwave, in the teachers' room.

After we put the fondue in the microwave and it was all ready, we started dipping the marshmallows in. It was X-tra yummy!!!

After we finished the fondue, we got a call from Willy Wonka saying "col ha-kavod."

Feb. 4 2011

Today was grandparents day.

Every year at Leo Baeck, each class is given a celebration. This grandparents day was my classes turn. We did most of the dancing and singing.

                        Here's me singing my solo

                     5 other girls and I  choreographed a dance.

                                           

     After the performances we went to our class room and had some yummy snacks!
                                             

Tzofim song

Here's the tzofim song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syu0f3x2M7E&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Feb. 1 2011 scouts #3

Sorry I haven't written in a while.

At this meeting, we had a activity hunt.
First we had to find the clue. The clue would say something like: "roll down the hill and you will see the next clue behind a tree"
It was pretty fun!!
When we finished the hunt, yally the counselor poured water in our mouths and we had to sing the Tzofim song that way! That was lots of fun!!!!!!!