Noach's animal adventures!

This week we learned about Parshat Noach.

Noach and Naama taught us what happened so long ago when Hashem needed to wash the whole world.

On Monday morning we had some rain ! Thank you Hashem for helping us teach about the rain to these California children who don't get to experience it that often;)!

What do we need when it rains? Eliara, creating rain sound with her rains stick from home. Juda, showing us an umbrella can help us out! 

In Parshat Noach, Hashem sent a 'Mabul' a flood to wash the world clean that needed something more to protect Noach and Naama.

Water inspired art using sprayers.

Creating our own rain sticks. Figuring out on our own how much we want to put inside.

Hashem told Noach to build a Teiva- a boat. 

Our friends came up and helped us create three layers. It took a lot of hard work for Noach to build this!

Zak, picking out an animal he wanted to put on the Teiva. 

Tehilla, matching the people on the top floor, animals on the second and trash all the way on the bottom.

Making our own Teiva crafts and trying to name the animal stickers.

There is no better way to learn about Parshat Noach and all the animals that were on the boat than inviting actual animals for us to learn about!

Morah America, brought her parrot!

The highlight was when she started dancing to our songs!

A dog named Oreo came to have some fun with us. She was so cozy and friendly. 

Two chickens came to visit. Cocoa and peeps. We learned what they like to eat and when they lay their eggs.

Thank you Shlomi and his family for bringing in baby goats. They were so sweet and they loved to let us feed them.

Watching the care and gentleness our friends showed our two visitors.

When the rain stopped and it was time to come out of the Teiva, Hashem showed Noach a rainbow! This rainbow represented it was now time to fill the world with Mitzvahs and Hashem will not send a Mabul again.

Matching our colors at the light table.

Aftercare fun!

Fun racing in pairs of two! A lot of communication was needed. 

Taking care of each other.

We love our pre-Shabbos Rallies! 

 

In the beginning!

After all the Holidays we were so excited to welcome back our friends! 

We stared in the beginning - Breishis , the first Torah portion of the Torah.

Hashem created the beautiful world we live in. 

Throughout the week we explored each of the 7 days of creation. 

Pinny, creating his world using paint and a balloon.

Eliara, was using a magnet stick to learn about light and dark.

Hashem created the water and divided it for the ocean and sky. Arden, separating the blue pieces in side some fun squishy gel. 

Water was very appreciated during this hot week! 

While learning about the land Hashem made and all the plants, our friend created their own garden fun.

Feeding the birds using our tweezers.

How many fish can you count in the sensory bin?

The last thing Hashem made was people! The whole world was created for us to make it a beautiful home for Hashem.

Sholom, making his self portrait.

We get to do Mitzvahs in this world and the Torah helps us know how to brighten this world!

We have been getting ready for a special next week, Parshas Noach! Helpers decorating our new bulletin board.

Relaxing book time together.

Aftercare fun, painting with colored ice as a team created such vibrant colors 

Animal yoga, friends while blindfolded got to pick out the next animal pose. 

The Wonders of Creation!🌎

This week’s Torah portion is Parshas Bereishis, where we learn all about how Hashem created our beautiful world in six days!

Before Hashem created the world, everything was dark! We closed our eyes and imagined a world that was completely dark and empty. Then, the very first thing Hashem created was light! ✨

We connected our learning to Thomas Edison and the invention of the light bulb. We learned how he tried again and again, and didn’t give up when it didn’t work! His perseverance reminded us that when something is hard, we can keep trying until we succeed! 💡

As we learned about Day 2 of Creation, when Hashem separated the waters and created the sky and the sea, we brought our learning to life with a fun science experiment! 🌧️🌊

We made our very own “rain bags” and hung them outside in the sunshine. Now we are watching closely to see evaporation in action and discover how water travels up and comes back down as rain!

Yosef, made a wonderful connection to our learning! He shared that while traveling to school early in the morning, it was very foggy, and he could actually feel the tiny drops of water in the clouds!

Ella, squeezed the clouds and watched the raindrops fall! ☁️

Ziva, moved the raindrops up and down in our sensory bags, just like the water cycle! 

On Day 3, Hashem made our world even more beautiful by creating all the plants, trees, and flowers! 🌳🌷🌿

We explored Claude Monet’s art and discovered how he captured the beauty of Hashem’s world in his unique, abstract style. 🎨🌿🌸

Yehudis, was a little artist herself in our circle time.

Creating our world with balloons! 🎈

Pre-K Kria

We learned the letter Daled and explored it in so many different ways! We practiced writing it, building it, recognizing it, and reading it as we became more confident with our new letter!

Academics

We all took turns getting an object from the “mystery box” and counted the syllables of that word.

During Circle Time we played a sight word recognition game.

Beating the heat with some refreshing water play 💦

Shabbat Shalom!