Animal Encounters

Greetings Peach Room Parents!

What an exciting week it has been! This week provided many rich opportunities for our friends to experience and interact with a variety of animals. A big, huge "Thank you!" to Morah D in the Purple Room for going above and beyond to bring these animals into our classrooms to share!

Monday our friends met Brownie, Morah D's dog and Trevor, Morah Felicia's guinea pig. They loved petting the soft fur of these mammals and even getting puppy kisses and sniffs. We talked about what these animals eat and compared whether they were loud or quiet. Tuesday we observed fish in a large new aquarium. Our friends helped feed them and watched them swim around. We read, "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" with our friends from the purple room. Wednesday we had a visit from some ducklings and baby chicks. We got to listen to the sweet little chirps and quacks they made. Each friend had to opportunity to hold a duckling in their hand as well as act as a perch for a chick. Our friends were so brave and especially delighted in interacting with the ducklings. Thursday was reptile exploration. Morah Ora brought in two very mellow tortoises who enjoyed a snack from the CJP vegetable garden. Morah D brought in two feisty little green lizards, who hilariously, would play dead every few minutes by turning on their backs and lying completely still with their mouths open. This was entertaining to our friends and got many giggles. Finally, we ended our week with some creepy crawly creatures. Two fat green hook worms, two hissing cockroaches, an earthworm and some crickets. Our friends were fascinated with these creatures. We've noticed most of our friends expressing an interest and enthusiasm for insects and bugs in both our indoor and outdoor environments so we are going to let them lead us on a more extensive exploration of insects and bugs in the coming weeks! Shyli is an expert bug spotter and will always exclaim, "It's a bug!" to let us all know!

We are continuing to enjoy water play outdoors with the warmer temperatures in full force this week! For next week, please bring your child to school already dressed in their water play clothes with sunscreen applied. Please also bring a hand towel or a child sized terry cloth robe/swim cover up. We will not be doing water play on Fridays.

Next week we are excited to be welcoming Madison and Ella to our Peach Room class! They are coming to us from the Yellow Room. Morah Anna will also being joining us to help ease their transition.

Shabbat Shalom!
Morah Ora and Morah Lindsey

Wish List:
Plastic Spoons
Clorox Wipes
Gallon Drinking Water
Thank you Felicia and Ruben for the drinking water this week! Our friends appreciated it as they are all drinking more with the warmer weather!