After our Chanukah break we intentionally left all the Chanukah centers set up, including decorations and the Beis Hamikdash.
This was a great way for the children to be a part of the process of packing everything away and while doing that we had conversations about when Chanukah would come again! This was such a wonderful way to transition into our next theme while reminiscing on all the memories they have cherished from Chanukah this year!
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| Hard work to take off the Dreidel hopscotch game! |
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| Yehudis helping us pack way the Beis Hamikdash pictures. |
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| Shua was very excited to help out with the Lechem Hapanim (show bread) |
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| Levi removing all the Velcro on our tree | . |
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| This job required great team work and fine motor skills getting all the gold paper off the Kohen's table. |
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Some children helped Morah Michaela start preparing
for the next themes bulletin board.
Our class has been enjoying our new Jewish Home center!
Healthy eating
The next couple of weeks we will focus on the special Mitzvah we have, to take care of our bodies! This Mitzvah is important so we can remain healthy and strong enough to do all the other Mitzvah's!
This week we focused on delicious fruits that we can eat!
We set out a big rainbow for the children to observe, and then invited them to match the fruit to its coordinating color. How much fun to eat a rainbow of fruit!
This also made it so much more exciting for them to taste different fruits and ask questions about them!
Fruits and Math
We learned about graphing.We placed several different fruits as options and graphed who likes what fruit.
Sensory fruits and color recognition
Different color fruits were pasted on play dough trays to help inspire the children to try to create their own version of that fruit.
Was so great to see the children's excitement when they opened their lunch box to find their fruit!
(hint ;) please send with your child different fruits they will be excited to eat them up!)
My plate
Replacing the traditional food pyramid , we now use 'My plate' .
It is a very visual and real way for the children to understand portion sizes of the various foods they eat. We created our own 'tummy plates!' They each chose what healthy food THEY like to eat!
On top of our tummy plates, each child made their own face to go on top. With a mirror the children checked their features to see what colors to use when drawing the features.
Fruit inspired art...
With fruits on display the children tried to create the fruit on paper. Check out Levi's banana!
Fruit Kabobs!
Happy 3rd Birthday to Yehudis Markel!
On the birthday cake that her friends helped make, we made a picture of Shabbos candle which she will now get to light on Friday night!
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