Winter and Arctic Animals

Dear Families,

This week we continued exploring concepts of winter.

Learning Through Books

We read more books about winter and snowflakes. Our favorite book was Three Little Kittens by Paul Galdone. Not only did the morahs read this book to our friends,  we heard the audio version as well. Our friends were so focused and quite while listening the story.

         

Early Literacy Activity

Our friends were greeted with a set table of gloves and mittens alongside blue and white paints.They eagerly tried on the gloves working hard to fit their tiny fingers into them.

Then, they slowly dipped their gloves in the paint and stamped it on the paper. The slow stamping turned into fast moving hands on the paper as they mixed the colors and felt the cold paint seep through the glove creating a wonderful sensory exploration.

Arctic Animals Exploration

In the sensory bin this week we had arctic animals with snow, which we made from baking soda mixed with hair conditioner and ice. It was freezing cold!

 

We spoke about animals that live in the cold weather.

These animals stay warm because they have fur, and as humans we need hats, scarves and mittens to be warm when we go outside.

 

When we came back to school the next day, we opened our sensory table and we realized that our ice and snow had melted down. "Ohhhh noooo," we said. We took out a bin and started to rescue the animals from the water. Our friends had so much fun playing with the animals and rescuing them. 

Shabbat Shalom 

Morah Ora & Morah Rivky

 

We wish you a restful winter break, and we will see you soon! 

 

      

Winter is Fun!

Dear Families,

This week we explored winter in our classroom.

 It was so cold that it was snowing!

Our friends had their hats, scarves, and mittens on.

We practiced how to put our mittens on and off and match them by colors.

It’s Snowing!

Our friends played and touched different textures of snow (pretend snow).

Around the classroom we had snow made from pillow stuffing. Our friends  had fun running around the classroom and throwing snow up and watching it fall to the floor.

When we were done playing we took shovels and shoveled all the pretend snow into the bins.

In the sensory table we had crushed ice as a snow.

Our friends put their gloves on and were ready to build a snow man.

Some friends tasted the ice and said, "It's ice cream!"

The vocabulary words we used this week were:

Fluffy, cold, snow, and winter.

Art Exploration: Can You Make a Snowflake?

We used q-tips to create our own snowflake shapes. Liran, Leeann and Alma were focusing while they were using the q-tips. They didn’t even get their hands messy with paint! Aria, Asher, Audrey and Leif chose to use their hands to create hand print snowflakes.

Next week we will explore more about winter and have more frosty fun! 

Shabbat Shalom 

Morah Ora & Morah Rivky

Chanukah Exploration

Dear Parents

This week we explored Chanukah through storybooks. The words and concepts we are working on with our friends are Chanukah, Menorah and Dreidel. Leeann and Liran said, "Menorah" and Asher said, "Chanukah" very clearly. We are noticing many exciting language developments in all of the children.

We  explored candle wax through fine motor play with candles and our menorah. We used real candles and they have been practicing placing all eight candles in the menorah as well as the shamash candle. We counted the candles and sorted them by color and broken vs. non-broken. We saved all of our broken candles from this work and our friends created a group collage on canvas using candles and bits of wax and wick.

Our explorations continued with olives and olive oil. Our friends have been smashing olives to make oil as well as tasting them. Some of our friends likes olives, some do not, and some even said "More please!"

Happy Chanukah & Shabbat Shalom!

Morah Ora & Morah Rivky