Ma, Madatz, Madatz are Amazing!

Revo has come and gone but that doesn’t mean the Madatz have stopped working. The Madatzim, like the staff (tzevet), each form a smaller staff (tzevet katan) and have an age group of kids (shickvah) that they work with for the session. On Friday’s the Madatzim plan an activity (peula) for their chanichim in the morning before Shabbat singing (shira). The Madatz are given the opportunity and responsibility just like the counselors (madrichim) to plan a peula that ranges from playing fun water games to having serious discussions. 

Today, the Chotrim had a peula all about Israel. The Madatz started off the peula with a game of Scategories and the topic was Israel. The Chotrim split up into teams and were each given a piece of paper. The goal was for each team to come up with as many different words that they thought was associated with Israel. Some of the words the Chotrim came up with were falafel, desert, hebrew, Western Wall and various other words. 

During the peula they learned more about Israel in the form of a cake! The Madatz made two plain cakes before the peula started and gave the Chotrim ingredients to create the map of Israel in cake-form. They used graham crackers for the desert and chocolate chips for mountains. 

The Sayarim went to the creek today with their Madatz and had a peula about respect. They stood in a circle and each went around saying one idea they had about how they can respect one another.

The Sayarim are the next chanichim to move into the older age groups so the Madatz wanted to 

unify their group (kvutza) a little more. The Sayarim had really great things to say about each other and are excited to put into action all of the ideas they came up with today. 

On Friday nights the Madatzim put their chanichim to bed instead of the madrichim. The chanichim and madatzim really enjoy this time together. Typically the madatzim ask their chanichim if they would like to hear a story or listen to a song while they fall asleep. This time together allows the chanichim to get to know their Madatzim and the Madatzim to hang out with their chanichim.

Everyone is getting so excited for Visitor’s Day on Sunday! Please remember no peanuts!

See you all on Sunday and Shabbat Shalom!