Torah Tots doing 'tummy time'?!

All about me unit 

This week we focused on how much we have grown.

We highlighted what it was like when they were a baby vs now. 

It was so exciting to start off our week with a Mazel Tov to Moshe and Yanky on their new baby brother! 

Yanky showing his friends a picture of his new baby. 

This helped start the conversation of when they were a baby. 

Our circle time had a lot of giggles when we acted out different things we did as a baby.

Being feed like a baby.

Mendel showed us what tummy time is. It is truly amazing to think about all the milestones these children have mastered in a couple of years!

Mina and Esther role played how we burped as a baby.

These discussions continued all throughout the day. When we were doing our Tzedakah song we discussed how little objects can be quite dangerous for little babies.

What was the most precious to see is when our friends take on a nurture role and find babies to love on. Emma was multitasking for quite some time with her little one.

Adelle learned how to swaddle her baby.

We created a baby center in our dramatic play area to invite the children to care for babies and continue the discussion and learning amongst each other.

Cut out paper, clay and popsicle sticks invited the children to create a 3D self portrait.

Esther made herself and her friends on the roof of her house.

Arik creating himself by tracing a circle oatmeal cover to make his face.

Name recognition at our paint center. We wrote each of their names using a hot glue, that they were able to feel and paint on top of .

Hebrew letter recognition.

For some of our older friends we have started to introduce more letter recognition during our center play time. Each key had a different Hebrew letter on it and our friends had to find the matching lock to open it.

Show and Tell is a great way to learn more about each other.

Chanie wanted to bring in her baby brother's baby toy. 

What a treat it was to have Batya's Bubby and Zaidy bring their own show and tell! It was so much fun to meet Chloe and Oreo.

We invited our friends to ask any questions they had. One child asked if they took baths. Batya's Bubby showed us a picture on her phone of the dogs taking a bath!

 We want to wish a big Mazel Tov and happy birthday to our dear Morah Chana!

Parshat Ki Sisa: From a Half to One Hundred

COUNTING THE JEWISH PEOPLE

Half Shekel 

In this weeks Parsha we learned that every Jewish person did the Mitzvah of giving a half Shekel for the Mishkan. When Moshe counted the half-Shekalim, it was a way to count how many Jewish people there were. We learn from this that when we count people, we should not count directly. 

There is a lesson that we can learn from the Mitzvah of giving the half shekel. When a Jewish person is disconnected and by himself, he is like a half. When he is acting in a nice way to his friends, with kindness he is a whole.    

Each child got a half of a circle. The children had to look for their other half partner and do the exercise with holding the partners hand. 

Reading In Hebrew 

This week we learned three new sounds, one of them was ג- gimmel, the Going sound.

On the left you can see how our children were so excited to hold ''the man that is Going G G G''

he looks exactly like a  ג.

 

100th Day of School

Everyone was so excited!

We blew up balloons for the occasion!

 

We counted to One Hundred and filled up our trays with 100 goodies!

It was a big celebration, 100 days of experiencing, learning and growing. 

We are so proud of our children.

Math Counting And Sorting 

This week each child was invited to create his/her own graph. 

We counted and sorted out different fruity Trix cereal, then we circled the column with the most cereal and the column with the least cereal on it.

 

Some of us tried to calculate how much pieces of cereal were on the graph all together.  

Aleph Beis Board Games: Samech Edition

Q is for Q-tip, Quiet and Quiche

Dipping and Dying to make colorful q-tips

We had to practice our blowing skills, to blow the q-tip through the straws.

We followed a recipe to make a delicious quiche!

It was so delicious that everyone asked the Morah to send their Mommies the recipe.

We kind of eyeballed it though :)

We used 1/2 a bag of spinach and 5 zucchini's.

We also mixed some cheese into the veggies and sprinkled on top!

Cutting the veggies for our quiche!

Piping hot right from the oven!

It was so yummy!!

Only in Gan Camarillo do we have kids begging for 

second helpings of veggies!

Symmetry Sorting!

Motty also decided to put the letters in order!

Look at ME

'All About Me' 

The next couple of weeks we will be focusing on how special and unique we all are. Young children often get caught up in being the same as their friend or not realizing a difference is what makes them who they are. It was so empowering to highlight each individuals progress and talents this week.

Graphing is a great way to visualize how each of us are created differently.

We started the week off graphing hair color.

Moshe checking himself in the mirror to see what color 

Sholom's hair color was a discussion, is it blonde or brown? The results he decided were "orange".

Even though we have many friends who are blonde in our class, we took this opportunity to take a deeper look and no two friends had the exact same hair color and texture.

 This week our friends worked really hard on their "All about me" folders. This is a great way to look back on their developmental skills they had at this age. 

Chanie using her cutting skills and gluing them into her personal folder.

Adelle getting measured using ribbon to document how tall she is.

 Self Portraits

Self portraits are actually a key part of learning and personal development. By creating a self portrait, children learn who they are, how they want to present themselves and what's important to them.

We used different mediums to invite the children to create their self portrait.

Coloring on the mirrors was a direct way to create their own faces. Moshe tracing his eyes and then when finished he wanted to make a mask over his face to be dressed up!

Esther used a wet wipe to recreate different images of herself.

Sholom and Arik working hard on their self portraits.

Using gems and stones on tree stumps to create different emotions.

Old keyboards helped some of our children start recognizing the letters in their name. Batya found her letter B!

Turned into an office. Emma said she was helping Mina with a lot of work.

Sometimes the best way to learn all about each other and our uniqueness is chatting amongst friends.

Trying to guess their friends faces from just seeing their eyes and noses.