Torah Tots Shape Up!

This week we learned a lot about Shapes!

An assortment of items from our classroom was a fun way to graph and categorize the different shapes they saw. This took team work and a lot of thinking skills since some were quite tricky.

Creative minds at work.

Bela Riva ran to get trains to use the circle as her rail road track.

Faiga noticed circles on the triangle toy, where should she place it? This turned into a great conversation amongst her friends.

Hannah practicing her cutting skills while naming the different shapes.

Circles

Batya had fun choosing from different round objects to create her circle painting.

Menachem wanted to draw a circle inside of a circle to see how many would fit.

Ari cracked us all up dancing around the class with his 'circle glasses'

Squares!

Faiga creating a square picture made from squares!

Without giving too many instructions we challenged the children to try to create a square using their bodies!

Rectangles!

Fun gross motor skills tasks were a fun way to differentiate between the square and the rectangle.

 Dovi creating a robot out of rectangles only.

 Triangles

Rozie had a fun sensory experience while trying to create a triangle out of clay.

Magna tiles helped us review the shapes we already learned.

 

Caring for our pet.

Parshat Yisro: Its Unbe-LEAF-able

Parshas Yisro

In this weeks Parsha, Moshe's father-in law came to join the Jews in the desert. When Yisro saw the way Moshe was so busy acting as a judge for the Yidden, for the entire day with barely a chance to rest, He suggested that Moshe should delegate some of the work and offered to help Moshe set up a system of judges. Hashem agreed with Yisro and Moshe accepted Yisro's help. 

Moshe chose wise men to be judges, and if a judge was unable to help, then the problem was brought to Moshe.

On the first day of the month of Sivan, Hashem told Bnei Yisroel (Jews) that they would get the Torah. They were so excited!!!! Once they came to Har Sinai they felt so  united, like one person with one heart. 

working hard together to build Har Sinai!!

Kindergarten learned that the Yidden heard the Aseres Hadibros from Hashem, and every persons neshama (soul) was there!

Menucha was there, and Yisroel was there and Max was there etc. 

T'u Bishvat: Unbe-Leaf-able

Each kindergartener chose one of the fruits of Israel to make for our bulletin board.

Ask your child which one they made!

The fruit are: Wheat, Barley, Grapes, Figs, Pomegranates, Olives and Dates.

In Summary 

"The plant gets bigger like the baby gets bigger, it grows and grows" - Muka

Just like when we put a seed in the ground, we cannot see that the seed is changing and growing so too a mommy who has a baby in her tummy, the mommy's tummy grows and grows but we cannot see the baby yet. 

Ask your child why roots are so important!

(they help the tree stand up)

 Planting with our parents was so much fun,

Kindergarten decided to explore other things we could grow.

 Cutting potatoes can be hard, thanks for your help Morah Avigail!

We made our way to the garden with our potatoes.

Muka used a shovel to dig a row,

and gently placed her potatoes inside.

Levi Yitzchak and Menucha shared a shovel to get the job done!

Kindergarten and Gan joined together for a Tu B'shvat Party!

 Max and Yisroel chose their favorite fruits to use in their Fruit Flowers!

Elizabeth used OLIVE them!!

In conjunction to Tu B'shvat we are in the midst of creating our own Family trees!

Collaging with paper, allows us to explore the looks of different textures and learn new ways of creating art!

We even wanted to work on them during outside play!

Pattern Play

By working together in pairs,

Max and Elizabeth created a colorful ABCDE pattern

Look how much we've grown!

We were able to put together a 100 piece puzzle through team work!

Mazal Tov Morah Leah!

We were so excited to meet baby Chana!

A TREEmendous birthday party!

Eretz Yisroel- Israel 

Tu B'shvat is a time when we talk about Israel, a special land given to the Jewish people. 

The trees in Israel are now starting to bloom and on the new year for trees , the tradition is to taste the Seven special foods of Israel. (Grapes, dates, figs, pomegranates, olives, wheat and barley) 

Dovi showing his friends where on the globe Israel can be found.

Tree fun!

The children had a fun time placing the correct fruit on the different trees of Israel 

Menachem and Ari building their own tree out of recycled materials and different colored beads as the leaves and fruit.

Green and brown play dough was a fun sensory experience to create a tree. 

Shayna hard at work on her green leaves on the tree.

Science experiment 

We have been talking a lot about growth these past two weeks. The children created their own growth experiment by placing wet cotton balls and beans and hanging it on our window for sun light to see if they will sprout.

By outdoor time we received a lot of visitors to their display asking "Is it sprouting yet?". It is a great way to learn the process of planting and patience.

Partnering with parents!

What a great week filled with children bonding with their parents and planting in our garden outside!

Tu B'shvat

Celebrating the birthday of the trees with the Kindergarten class and tasting all types of fruits.

Motty showing his friends the fruit planter he made!

The children were fascinated to hear each other's tastes when it came to different kinds of fruits.

Thank you Uncle Baruch for coming and enjoying time under the trees with songs and stories with us!

Challah time,

 one of the highlights of the week :)

Sweet happy friends dancing!