fall

This week we focused on Fall, the new season and all the beautiful colors it brings! Using Art, Imagination, math and science...we explored leaves , branches and most importantly the wonder of how Hashem makes this all happen!

Equally important to general curriculum is our students social emotional skills. With this in mind, several of our circle times this week were focused on learning the skills of how we focus/pay attention/show respect when Morah's, or other friends are speaking.

We used our hands and bodies to  show what our eyes, ears and faces should be doing!

Yedidya shows us how he listens with his ears

Ben shows us how he pays attention with his eyes.

Menachem shows how we zip our mouths to keep quiet while the Morah is speaking.

As part of our circle time, we invite the children to make a commitment to listen with their ears and look with their eyes! 

Fall playdough

As a team, we actually made a batch of playdough, and then chose 3 fall colors to color it! The next day we used our creations to make leaves on branches! 

  

Fall Colored Leaves for our Family Tree

Using our fine motor skills, we practiced cutting tissue paper, and turning it into leaves to add to our Gan Camarillo Family Tree bulletin board.

 

Leaf Necklaces

Another fine motor skill to work on was using hole punchers. The children were invited to punch holes in real leaves that we gathered, and weave them onto string!

  

Fine motor skills are such an important pre-writing skill, that we try to find as many opportunities as we can to strengthen them at this age. Using pipe cleaner trees and button leaves, the children made beautiful colorful pretend Fall trees!

    

We read a book called "The Little Leaf." It described every stage in the life of a leaf, and helped us realize the "Hashgacha Pratis" "Divine providence" in every single step of the leafs movements and life. Even to the point of the leaf falling off the tree, and resting on the floor!

Pumpkin Painting, Seed Counting and more!

First we had fun painting pumpkins! Then we opened them up, used tweezers to pick out all the seeds. There were SO many we couldn\"t keep count!  Then we had an idea to roast them, so we roasted them, added some salt, and enjoyed them as an afternoon snack! Some even ate the entire seed, they loved them!

  

Alef Beis Enrichment

We learned the letter Hay this week! we had lots of fun outdoors using leaves to build a big letter Hay!

Mendy was so kind to share his umbrella, giving all of his friends turns!

Thank you Rabbi Lang for leading a special rally in honor of Chof Cheshvan!