Dear Families,

This week we continued exploring Shabbat.

Challah

This week we worked on using a pincer grasp. Pincer grasp is an important fine motor skill used for day to day things like gripping a pencil or using silverware. We started out by using hand over hand to help them place cranberries or raisins on the "challah" loaves using fingers, then worked up to using plastic tweezers. By the end of the week it was exciting to see most of them had mastered some level of this skill. We extended this provocation by helping them count the raisins both in English and Hebrew. Then the children even got to eat their work! Yum!

Science & Sensory Exploration

 Last week we had water in our sensory bin with washing cups, our friends had so much fun practicing pouring water from one cup to another and washing their hands, we decided to continue this activity and let our friends have more fun through learning.

Due to some friends being homesick we decide not to do another project to our Shabbos box. We want to wait until all our friends feel better and are able to join us in creating a project with all their peach room friends.The CJP Family cares about all of our friends!

 

On Thursday we had a big birthday celebration. In the morning friends helped Morahs bake a cake for Leeann's birthday party. Cooking in the classroom provides so many opportunities for turn taking, measuring, stirring...it is the ultimate science experiment. They enjoyed the group cooking/baking experience. We then danced and ran around the classroom to try to catch some bubbles and play with balloons.

 

Happy Birthday Leeann! It was a pleasure to celebrate your birthday with you!

Shabbat Shalom

Morah Ora & Morah Rivky.