The highlight of this week was making homemade matzah. Each friend poured water into the sensory table full of flour, mixing it together to create dough. Some friends enjoyed the sticky texture while mixing the ingredients with their hands. Other friends did not, so they opted to use a spoon or kitchen utensils. Once their dough was ready, they rolled it into a ball and patted it. Then they took turns using our rolling pin to get it nice and thin.
The morahs helped them move their matzah dough to our baking paddles, and they each had a turn to put it into our matzah "oven". We counted to ten in English and then in Hebrew and the matzah was magically baked for them to taste! Most friends seemed to enjoy their matzah though they did ask for water.
We had an impromptu snack in our dramatic play kitchen complete with kiddush cups. One friend did not care for her matzah at all, saying, "Yucky!" and tried to scrape it off her tongue. She went to get a drink of water to wash it down. It's always interesting to see their reactions to trying new things. All of our friends enjoyed the process and worked hard on this project.
Friends are continuing to explore the concept of constructing pyramids in two areas of our room: our sensory table with wet sand and trays/containers for brick making and also our block area with duplos and cardboard builders. They loved building duplo pyramids and then knocking them down over and over!
We are noticing more and more how friendships have developed within our class. It is truly incredible to watch as they greet one another and us each morning, especially after an absence. They notice and ask about friends who are not at school. They help each other with simple tasks. They love to dance and play together. They are quite simply amazing little people.
Shabat Shalom,
Morah Ora & Morah Rivky
No comments:
Post a Comment