Dibuk Chavarim, Caring for Friendships, has been the theme of the first two weeks of camp.
In the prek group the kids learned Henai Matov U'Maniyim as well as played games with learning names of all their friends in their group and talking about the importance of knowing people's names.
Make new friends and keep the old, one is silver and the other is gold. These words in this song helped the kids realize the importance of friends, old and new!
The next day the kids were given a rock and told to note everything about the rock. They then closed their eyes and pictured their rocks and finally put their rocks in a box with other kids rocks and they could each find their own rock. When the kids talked about the importance of looking friends in the eyes when they talked they realized their rocks needed eyes so they put googly eyes on their rocks and then they named them and got to take them home to keep their new friends. The kids learned how important it is to notice everything about your friends because each person is different and special and that is how you show you care about them!