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.