Welcome back! We hope you enjoyed some time off with your families! Our peaches were so happy to be back together and we started off our week with lots of very sweet hugs and hello’s!
After being away for just over a week, our friends eased back into their school routine smoothly. We kept our focus on interactions and gentle reminders to help support them through this transition. Although we did not work on any big projects, there were many opportunities for exploration and experimentation through both fine and gross motor provocations.
Our friends explored gross motor activities by riding bikes, rocking on rocking horses, and pushing a shopping cart and a baby doll stroller around the classroom.
Fine motor explorations continued with our sensory bin filled with pasta and pots. Our friends used their imagination in different ways to pretend they were making pasta, cake or juice made from pasta. Some friends asked for gloves and filled them with pasta, which became a good touch and feel sensory activity.
We also did a lot of drawing and coloring with markers, paint dots and chalk on a piece of paper and on our chalkboard.
It's so amazing how each friend used their imagination to express what they were drawing. Liran: Morah can you help me to draw yellow flowers.
Alma: I can make lots of circles .
Audrey chose paint dots to make lots of dots on her paper.
Leeann: Morah look I can do it too!
Kai: It's a horse!
Aria, Etai and Leif looked at friends and decided to join them with drawing.
When our friends scribble or draw, they develop cognitively by expanding imagination and creativity. They develop their fine motor skills by holding a paintbrush or pencil. They learn to name colors and how to mix colors together to create new colors. They distinguish shapes, purposely create shapes and express their feelings and ideas. Shabbat Shalom,
Morah Ora & Rivky
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