Dear Parents,
On Monday we had Grandparents day and the grand opening of our beautiful play ground! Thank you for joining us!

This week out friends had a lot of fun exploring our bodies. Our morah’s traced our bodies and our friends colored them.

At the table we had a mirror and rocks with pictures on them of different facial features. Our friends looked into the mirror at their faces and pointed at it. They then tried to make a face from the pictures on the rocks.

Block area - This week we brought different sized blocks to the table. Our friends built tall towers with them and then pushed them over with happy faces! They did this over and over again. Then we decided to see how tall our friends are by building the tower up to their height.
Hailey is 10 blocks high.
Madison is 8 blocks high.
Ella is 7 blocks high.
Angie is 13 blocks high.
Yehonathan is 12 blocks high.

Sensory table - At the sensory table we had sponges and farm animals. Our friends enjoyed washing the animals and used their gentle hands while scrubbing them. We had a conversation about how important it is to use our gentle hands, not only with our friends but with other things around us as well.

Next week we will start to learn all about shabbat!

Shabbat shalom! - Morah Ora and Morah Goldie

Dear parents
We have had a busy week despite some of our friends being out sick.  We miss them and hope they feel better soon so they come back to play and learn.

This week we continued learning about Tu B Shevat, the New Year for the trees .

We began this week from reading a books to our friends about trees and birds .
We learn that birds need trees for food and shelters, but trees need birds too.  We decided to make some birds feeders to make a gift for our birds .

Our friends took pine cones and dipped them in to sunflower butter and rolled them in to bird seeds and with morahs help we will hang them on the trees by our playground.
Hailey and Yehonathan asked the morahs for more pine cones to make more food to the birds and Yehonathan gave one to our classroom bird and says "thats for you bird!".

Sensory table.
This week our friends been planting seeds(cilantro) in small pots for our grandparends or special friends to take home as a gift at grandparents day on monday jan 21 at 10 oclock .
Madison enjoyed scooping the soil in to the pot and plant seeds.

Block center.


At the block center we added some pictures of fruits and vegetables .
Angie and Hailey where matching and naming each fruit and vegetable and stacking blocks, Yehonathan enthusiastically said Amen!

Table top
Clay, playdoh and branches were set out for our friends to sculpt their own tree. Playing and molding clay can be extremely therapeutic for a child who needs to physically express their emotions. In addition, their fingers are working to strengthen their fine motor skills and dexterity while their brain is working on their imagination and creativity.

Peach room Morahs and friends would like to Say Happy Birthday to Hailey! In honor of her birthday her family donated abc & 123 magnets with magnets board .Thank you so much!

Shabbat shalom,

Morah Ora and Morah Goldie

  Dear parents, Welcome back!

   Our Peach room friends were so happy to be reunited with all their friends after a week away! A highlight of this week was that our friends began exploring Tu B'shvat (the new year for the trees) We started our week playing with the sensory table which we loved! In the table we had soil and pretend fruits and vegetables. Our friends used their sorting skills to sort the fruits from the vegetables. We spoke about which fruits grow from the ground, and then practiced saying the Brochos!

   We say the bracha Ha'adama for the fruits and vegetables that grow from the ground.

   We say the bracha Pri haetz for the fruits that grow on the trees.

   

   What type of seeds do you see?

   Our friends used a magnifying glass to discover the seeds inside of some fruits and vegetables. We discovered that some fruits have many small seeds inside, and some are big. Then we tasted some fruits! Hailey and Yehonthan really liked the taste of the green and red apples. Ella and Angie liked the orange. Madison tried some kiwi and she didn't like it as much.

   For our group project we colored on a big piece of paper with markers and crayons. We are going to make a beautiful flowers, stems, and leaves from it. We displayed it on our bulletin board. Next week we are going to continue exploring Tu B'shvat by planting seeds in a pot, as well as making bird feeders for our birds.

   Shabbat Shalom! - Morah Ora and Morah Goldie