My Sweet Little Mitzvas

What a sweet first week we had in our class!

Rosh Hashanah is on the way, and we all agreed on one thing, we want a SWEET new year!

Our friend Bumble Bee came to visit and told us all about the delicious honey she makes for Rosh Hashanah. 🐝

But where do we get honey?

It starts with the flowers! 🌸
Gabriel said that this is where the bee collects the nectar. From the flowers, the nectar makes its way back to the beehive, where our busy bees work together to turn it into the yummy honey we dip our apples into on Rosh Hashanah! 

 Bumble Bee taught us something very important… there is something even sweeter than honey - our MITZVOS!

The children thought about their favorite mitzvos and created their very own mitzvah jars, filling them with all the sweet mitzvos they love to do.

"Mitzvos are sweeter than honey!"

We learned that this is one of the beautiful messages of eating honey on Rosh Hashanah. As we ask Hashem for a sweet new year, the honey reminds us of all the sweet mitzvos we did throughout the year, and all the new mitzvos we can do in the year ahead!

Toby’s favorite mitzvah is sharing!

Ella drew a picture of her sister Libi and told us she loves hugging her!

Tal’s favorite mitzvah is giving Tzedakah and Ziva shared that she loves helping her brother Yosef in the morning! 💕

It was a fun challenge for Zalman to figure out which lid matched his jar.

Buzzing around...

Our class honey jar is filling up so quickly with all the sweet mitzvos we are doing!

Yosef's mitzvah note went all the way to the tippy top!

We got to taste apples dipped in honey 🍎 and sing together:

“Dip the apple in the honey,

make a bracha loud and clear!

L’Shana Tova U’Metuka,

have a happy, sweet new year!” 🎶

PhoeBEE the Beekeeper came to visit us! 🐝 We got the inside scoop on the bees and learned all about their busy, buzzy world!

We baked a special birthday cake for Ashira! She chose vanilla cake with chocolate frosting - yum!

Yosef and Yehudis cracked the egg into a separate cup and carefully checked it for blood spots. "All good!"

Happy Birthday Ashira!

Breathing with our stretchy toys makes us happy, relaxed, and ready to learn new things✨

Pre-K Kria

We are off to a great start in our Kria class. We began with the first letter - Alef!

א is for Adom (red)!

K Kria

Through fun games and worksheets, we are practicing recognizing our Hebrew letters. We are off to a wonderful start!

Academics

We had fun using our rhythm sticks! Using rhythm sticks teaches us foundational music concepts and fine motor skills.

We took turns playing a letter recognition/beginning sounds game.

Shabbat Shalom!

Sweet Mitzvahs at the BEEginning of Gan!

The first week at Gan was quite a sweet one ;)

We began learning about Rosh Hashanah. Our first step was wiping out our family photos and discussing how much our parents love us!

Arden and Juda showing their friends their family. 

Pinny, was excited to tell us about his 3rd birthday party over the summer while looking at his family picture. 

Watching our friends reactions was a perfect foundation to the holiday. Just like our parents love us so much, Hashem is like our parent and is always there for us. 

Taking care of baby dolls was a hands on way to realize all the care a child needs. Tehillah, proud of putting a diaper on her baby. Reuvi, mashed up some baby food.

Now we are ready to learn that not only does Hashem care for us he also loves when we do sweet things!

What is sweet for Hashem? Tasting honey woke up our taste buds and friends shared what they like to eat that's sweet. For Hashem, our MITZVAHS ARE SWEET!

We sing "have a happy sweet new year" and now our friends were connecting the dots.

Drawing our Mitzvahs we like to do and tasting delicious honey after! 

Watching our friends come up and draw what they did that was sweet was definitely giving Hashem so much joy!

With all this honey tasting we had some fun this week learning where honey is from!

Bee hive sensory bin.

What a sweet gesture for Shlomi and Moshe to try to pick up all the pieces that were coming out of our bin.

We have been working hard on our Rosh Hashana crafts.

We had a real bee keeper come to visit us!

It was so fascinating using all our senses to learn how bees make honey. What a miracle Hashem made.

Listening the Shofar the days before Rosh Hashana.

Shabbat Shalom!

Aleph Beis Trip on Ship!

  Our featured book this week was The Aleph Bais Trip on the Aleph Bais Ship. 

Children are introduced to the Hebrew letters through an exciting adventure as each Alef-Bais letter joins a voyage on a ship. Along the way, they become familiar with the names, order, shapes, and sounds of the Alef-Bais while seeing how every letter is unique and important. Through colorful illustrations, rhyming text, and imaginative storytelling, the book builds early Hebrew literacy, memory, and a love for learning Torah.                

 

Our morning centers invited each of the children to learn to recognize the letter that their own Hebrew name starts with! Using art, cookie making and more the children learned to recognize their own hebrew letter!

 

We had fun making the cookie dough, and learned how to check the eggs to make sure they are Kosher!

We all took turns to pour in ingredients, and mix them too!

 We explored ice at the outdoor water table, discovering how it melts, and changes from a solid to a liquid! It was so much fun and a great way to beat the heat!

                                                 

    Bubble Fun!                                                    

                                                   

Trip to the Park

 

Tisha B'av

We painted Beis Hamikdash Art, and spoke about what we can do to help re-build the Beis Hamikdash!