1. 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

2. 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

3. 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.

4. Learning the story of Yitzhak and Rebecca

5. 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

6. Children painting the story Eliezer and his camels Rebecca and Yitzhak are getting married

7. Children inventing musical instruments out of natural materials Decorating sea shells and using them as percussion instruments The bamboo whistle

8. The workshop Creating musical instruments by the spirit of Yitzhak period in Parper nechmad kindergarten class Collecting natural material for making musical instruments

9. The well which was built by the teachers before the workshop

10. The children gathered together and decided to write a song about Rebecca and the jar

11. The words of the song: A jar Went down To the well water To Rebbeca She is serving water

12. Every child prepared his Yitzhak cloak

13. The children met their parents at the beginning of the workshop wearing their Yitzhak cloaks

14. THE COMPOSERS At the beginning of the workshop the children performed their Jar song They organized the way the orchestra played by themselves

15. The bells activity We created sheep and wind bells like in the old times

16. The parents and the children wrote a song about the sheeps bell and performed it.

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

18. The shepherd and his rattle

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

20. This is the musical chain that my father and me prepared together

21. 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

22. 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

23. " The pottery boards that we made "

24. 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

25. The drums W e put leather on the jars and on cardboard rolls and we prepared drums

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

27. " This is the drum that I prepared with my father

28. The drums group performance

29. The shepherds stick

30. 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

31. The shepherds flute

32. The parents tied the bamboo with a rope

33. This is the flute of the old time that I did with my father

34. The performance Translation: We, the people of Israel left Egypt played the flute in the desert, hoping for better life!

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

36. The children used their musical instrument in every day activities

37. The voices of the well The musical piece which was composed by the children Press to hear the musicsofi_sofi.wav

38. 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.

39. 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.