Happy Mother's Day!

 The Peach room has been learning all about babies this week! We filled our sensory tub with a bubble bath and gave our babies baths. We have tried our hand at changing our babies diapers, changing their clothes and bundled them up and put them to bed. All of this play with our babies has sparked other ideas for pretend play and we've taken our babies shopping, taken photos of our babies and put our babies to bed. Some of our friends have even engaged in play with roles ("I'm the mommy and you be the sister.")  We also learned the baby song, about putting the baby to bed and then taking care of  her when she wakes up. We take turns deciding when the baby needs to go back to sleep (a new diaper, a kiss, a bottle...).

As Mother's Day approaches we have been reading books about Mommies. Mommy and Me, Are You My Mother, and Teeny Weeny Looks for His Mommy are favorites. Mommy and Me has sparked some discussion about what we like to do with our mommies.

 We've also enjoyed working on a special project for our own mothers this week  to show them how thankful we are for them. 

With everything blooming outside, our friends really love to smell the flowers and bring them to the morahs. We thought it would be so nice to make something with flowers. Our friends picked some flowers in our playground, then we stuck them to sticky papers to create a sun catcher. Last, the morahs added a travel bracha so our mommies could hang it in their cars to travel safely.

Another project we did this week was painting picture frames using rolling paint brush with different textures. Then we added a picture with our mommies into it.

We ended our week by making Mother's Day cards with our hand prints; some friends even choose to use finger tips.

 We would like to thank you for your thoughtful kindness during Teacher Appreciation Week. Working with your children is engaging and joyful for us and we thank you for all of your support!  

Shabbat Shalom and Happy Mother's Day!

Morah Ora & Morah Chaya.