Dear Peach Room parents, it was a pleasure having parent - teacher conference with you!

     Gross motor activities

     Our friends love to explore the playground and outdoors on their own. They're so independent! But Morahs are always next to them, keeping an eye on them and making sure we're all safe. Our friends enjoy playing in the sandbox and feeling the rough texture of the sand, climbing on the climbing structure, riding bikes, sliding on the slide, and balancing on the beam. All these activities are great at developing our gross motor skills. These skills help our friends to run, catch a ball, climb etc. We are loving our outdoor play! 

Fine motor activities

     Inside our classroom we are working on our fine motor skills. Morahs put out soft rugs with manipulatives on them so our friends could visit a station of their choice to strengthen their fine motor skills. Hailey and Madison explored boxes fastened with all sorts of locks. They used their fine motor skills to open and close each box. Inside the box were a bunch of little toy pieces which our friends took out and put back inside. This took a lot of patience! 

     Angie used her hand eye coordination to put different sized penny's on a peg. Ella mixed colors in the peg holder. Yehonathan also used his fine motor skills to place corks inside and out of a pool noodle! All of the objects and activites are great for our friends.

     Dear parents and friends, thank you for another great week. Have a wonderful winter break! Shabbat Shalom - Morah Ora and Morah Goldie 

Dear parents, this week in the peach room we chose to explore the cold season - winter!! 

     At the beginning of the week we had ice in the sensory table. Our friends enjoyed scooping the ice into the buckets and listening out for the sounds it made. Angie said “It’s cold, my hands are cold” and some of our friends started repeating “It’s cold!” After some time of exploring the tools, we added salt to the ice. Each of our friends took turns adding salt. We discovered that the salt stuck to the ice! The salt also made the ice crack but it didn’t fall apart. 

     We made snow! 
     Another activity we did to explore the cold was making snow!  We made it by using baking soda and hair conditioner. We molded snowballs and crushed the snow between our fingers. We also pretended that we were playing in snow (pillow stuffings.) Our friends threw the snow in the air and watched it fall. Yehonathan and Ella had so much fun rolling around in the snow! Then we added some foam to the snow stuffing, and our friends liked the noise of crushing the little foam pieces under their feet.

     Morah Ora brought some scarves and mittens to our play area. Morah Ora said “It’s freezing in the Peach Room, let’s put on some scarves and gloves!” Our friends took turns to get their scarf and their mittens from the bucket. They even matched the mittens together! What a fun week of winter exploration!

     Can you make a snowflake?
     We used q-tips to create our own snowflake shapes. Madison was focusing while she was using the q-tip, she didn’t even get her hands dirty in paint! Ella, Hailey, and Yehonathan chose to use their hands to create hand print snowflakes.

     We would like to thank Hailey’s mom for giving the Peach Room a wonderful Hanukkah present!

     Dear parents, we can’t wait to see you at parent - teacher conference on Wednesday! 

     Good Shabbos! - Morah Ora and Morah Goldie

Dear Peach Room parents!
This has been a week full of music and celebration in our room. Our friends are singing and dancing to "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel" and "Oh Chanukah". We are marking each day of the festival of lights by having a different friend pretend to be the shamash candle and "light" our tape menorah by adding a piece of colored tape. We also finished our special Chanukah project and sent it home- so hopefully you all received the handmade menorahs your children created in class.

Our explorations continued this week with olives and olive oil. Our friends have been smashing olives to make oil as well as tasting them. Some our friends likes olives, some do not . A project that captured all of the children's attention and interest was creating olive oil lava lamps. They loved pouring water, oil and liquid water color into their bottles and watching what happens. They were enjoying it so much that we decided to have them add beads and pom poms to their lamps and then they explored how they looked on our light table when they were turned over, shaken and left alone for the oil to separate fully and rest at the top.

Our big project this week as we finished learning and celebrating about Chanukah, was making latkes. Our friends washed and peeled potatoes in our sensory table. They took turns helping to grate the potatoes and add the other ingredients. They also took turns mixing and scooping them onto a baking sheet. They were amazing little cooks, we were so impressed! Then we all enjoyed tasting our hard work.

Happy Chanukah and Shabbat Shalom
From Peach room Morahs.