Books and Bearded Dragons!

Book Hospital:

Books and more books! After talking about the care of our books we decided to put it to the test!

We added some damaged books to our library. (That had been sitting in our supplies room waiting to be repaired.)

Would the children find them?

 

We were so proud of the many children who found a spine that was ripped on one book, a tear on a page of another and placed it in the BOOK HOSPITAL BASKET.

Levi looking really closely for a book that needs some of our help.

There was one book that had been already fixed in the past. This was a great opportunity for the children to figure out what to do with our books in the hospital basket.

They felt it - and figured it out! TAPE!

 

When our "Book Hospital" basket got full, the children worked together and brought the heavy basket to our table.

Carrying the book hospital basket

Each child took out a book and we talked about how we can fix them.

Shua working hard and adding tape to the spine of the book.

After giving Levi a piece of tape he decided he could work better sitting on the floor and he carefully placed it on the book and brought it back to the library with a BIG smile!

After working hard fixing and reading books, some of our friends decided to take nap in the dramatic play area!

Creative minds

Over the course of the week, Rochel and Menucha (with little Devorah Leah's help;) created their own book !

It was amazing to see them combining their imagination stories and putting it into one long book!

Menucha explaining to Rochel whats going on on her side of the book.

Later the other  children looked at their book in the library!

Shua and Chani each took their side of our white board book.

What are you making?

Shua: "My Tatty"

Chanie: "My Mommy" :)

What a perfect book!

More LITERACY:

On this beautiful Montessori piece of furniture, we placed a sticker for each letter in the Alphabet. On top was a tray filled with different letters. The children had to match the letter in the correct draw.

Some of the two year olds had a field day just opening and closing the draws!

Outside we made a trail of all the letters using chalk.

Levi found the first letter of his name and asked me to start him off making a picture of himself next to the letter.

Aron was observing Levi and decided to do just the same!

Parents as Partners:

 

Thank you dear parents for coming in these past two weeks and reading to the children!

Yitzy's Mommy engaged all the children with Rina's Rainy Day!

Keren (Noachs mommy) did it 'Kibbutz style'- outside!

The children were using Hebrew words from the story during the remainder of the day!

Disney Author shares some of her books:

We are so fortunate to have had DISNEY AUTHOR, SUSAN AMERICANER come visit us and read to us books that she had written!

Inspired Book Art: "Spilled Milk"

Shua and Chani's mommy read the book, "It looked like spilled milk" to some of our friends at the Library.

Inspired by the book we chose a page and placed it in a zip lock to protect it from the paint.

  We put out white paint and blue paper.

Morah Lisa demonstrated different ways to create the art. 

One of the neat ways was to create a picture on the table cloth and creating a print on the paper by pressing down.

Rochel used her nails to make the print.

Documenting their words what they think the 'spilled milk' looks like! 

 

Placing their art in picture frames!

 

Learning and playing with our BEARDED DRAGON!

Morah Lisa saying good morning to the bearded dragon!

Willow (Andor's sister) has been helping us make sure we take her out of the cage and give lots of personal attention!

She had a very amusing idea to stick her carefully on one of our airplane toys!

This definitely got a lot of giggles and we talked about how the bearded dragon is on an airplane just like Ellah went on to go to Austin Texas!- We miss her so much!

 

 Team work ! Here the children made a very sophisticated home for the bearded dragon to visit! (can you see her in there?)

There was an eating room, a front door a back door..! What a lucky bearded dragon to have so many friends!

Brave Ilani decided to hand feed her a worm!

(we do make sure each child who touches our pet washes really well with soap and water afterwards!)

Q-tip art:

Welcome Reena Hettena!