The king is in the field!

This week we celebrated the first of the Hebrew month of Elul. A special time before Rosh Hashanah.

During this month Hashem 'comes out of His palace' and is more approachable for us.

Avraham helped role play what its like when a King is in his Palace surrounded by guards and needing special permission. He then came out and Yossi was able to walk right over to him and ask for his needs. He asked for everyone to feel safe.

Since the King is in the field now, we headed outdoors and davened beautifully to Hashem!

We created a field mural to hang up in our classroom. It is an interactive center, that allows the children to visualize the King, and we place their Mitzvah notes on it, and the children can see how its getting them closer to the King (Hashem, who is the King of all Kings.)

Leah, using magnet tiles to make a palace. 

Working hard on our King project creating a field scene and making Kings!

Nechama, using playdough to create people in the field. 

Nechama, writing המלך בשדה (the king is in the field).

We played a fun game searching for the hidden King, which was behind one of the number flaps.

It was so silly that we discovered ALL of the fun objects before we found the king!

Pre-k Kria

We stared our brand new Kria books.

Kindergarten Kria

We focused on all the Final letters! Next week we will be introducing the very first Hebrew vowel so we can start to read!

Academics 

Learning how to walk to the carpet in fun ways.

Dice games and number recognition activities.

Cap It Language arts

Aftercare

Scavenger Hunt, followed by

Some down time listening to Morah Chana reading books.

Shabat Shalom!

Welcome to Gan!

What a great first week of Gan! We loved seeing our friends during our open house and starting our classroom photo scrapbook with memories from the summer!

Signing in our names when we first come into class!

Drawing their favorite memory of summer time. 

Nothing like first day circle times and welcoming each other.

Lets just say everyone was so excited to be back at school! After davening happy dances were a great expression of that!

Nechama, working on our commitment people sticks. During the year our class will be committing themselves to a skill they will be working on. The first one we will be introducing is attentive listening. What does that look and feel like? 

The first week of school we all experience a whole bunch of different emotions. Identifying them is a key skill.

Coming up to our feeling chart and showing our friends what they were feeling currently. Leah's body language showed us a lot! Nechama, told us she felt loved.

Expressing our feelings through drawing.

Prk Kria

Practicing writing the letter Alef and coloring the first letter Edom (red) .

Kindergarten Kria

We are starting off the year touching up on any tricky letters we need to review before introducing the first vowel. 

In Academics we heard a great book about the first day of school.

Working hard on a word hunt.

Aftercare fun learning how to draw a boat.

Enjoying time together in our library.

 

First week feelings!

Welcome to Torah Tots 5784! 

Our Gan family open house was such a great way for our friends to start feeling comfortable with the classroom and Morahs. 

Creating a scrapbook page of our summer experiences so we can have it as a keepsake in our classroom. We will be adding to our Gan family picture book throughout the year!

Our primary goal in the beginning of the year is establishing safety through routine and procedures. 

Our big new clock helps our friends know what is happening next which allows them to feel a sense of safety. 

On the first day of school, Arielle decorated herself for our classroom bulletin board. 

Jobs and responsibilities  are established right from the beginning. Each child receives their job on our magnet board and feels so special taking a leadership role. Tal and Yocheved, were the Tzedaka helpers during davening circle. 

Learning responsibility by cleaning up after we play. Yosef was so strong carrying the bucket of toys all the way to the Morahs room. Zalman, helped sweep the classroom.

Circle time is such a sweet connection time!

Levi, proudly saying a Bracha on his Tzsis. 

Through puppet shows this week we learned about all types of feelings we can have especially when starting something new. 

Ayal, showed us in the mirror his happy face. 

Using playdough as a medium to express our feelings.

Building friendship and connection through finding our friends in our sand sensory table.

One of the highlights of our routine is music and movement before we sit down for circle time. Such a sweet time for connecting and getting all our wigglies out. 

Hard at work outside. Enjoying our new water station.