It was so wonderful to welcome back our friends after a nice winter break! Thank you to everyone who sent in photo's. Each child having a chance to share was an opportunity for them to shine, as well as reinforce our own school family connection with each other!
The next few weeks will be focused on Trees, as we prepare for the Jewish Holiday of Tu B'shvat!
The children were welcomed with a dramatic sized Tree coming out of our bulletin board! Tova noticed there was a T for Tova on the wall. Shua found an "Sh" like in his name. It was fun figuring out what the letters on the wall spelled, and discovering more about trees! After Morah Leah gave a clue that it was the birthday of the trees, Menachem Freeman immediately figured out that those words spelled "Tu Bshvat!"
We offered lots of nature inspired art to get into the spirit of this unit! Fresh flowers and pot plants along with a palette of brown, green and white paint to make our own plant art!
We used leaves to create negative space art, and leaf imprints!
Tree Memory Match
While learning about different tree names,
the children also worked on turn taking and refining their memory skills!
What better place to go to learn about the different parts of a tree, than outside, by a beautiful tree!
We read a book called the secret of the trees! We learned that the size of the tree that we see above the soil, is only HALF of how big the actual tree is, because the roots go down SO deep into the ground! Did you know that the roots of the largest tree extends as wide as a soccer field, and can take up as much space as a football stadium!
We are so lucky to have such a beautiful field with majestic trees all lined up behind our school. The children soaked in Hashem's wonders as they touched, hugged and marveled at the tree and its great branches and shade!
We learned the names for each part of a tree, and labelled our bulletin board tree together!
How do trees and plants begin? Seeds.
We offered several ways for the children to explore and understand what a seed is! One morning we filled our sensory table with beans, for the children to explore, play with and fill into little spice containers. It was fun working hard to fit them into the small holes!
Using tweezers to strengthen our fine motor skills the children were invited to pick out the seeds from acorn and butternut squash! After all their hard work, we roasted the seeds and the vegetables and enjoyed a delicious healthy snack!
We read a book called "The carrot Seed" by Ruth Krauss
We planted beans in an eggcarton planter. After learning what seeds need to grow, we are hoping we can make sure our seeds get the right amounts of "Mayim" and "Shemesh" each day so we can eventually see the wonder of the bud sprouting out!
Alef Beis Enrichment
Dipping strings into water glue to decorate our letter Hey!
Alef Beis Bowling! We took turns rolling the ball and announcing the letters on the pins that we knocked over! Alef through Hay!
We had fun running from letter to letter across the classroom! When Morah Chani called out the letter, we had to find where it was posted and run to it!
Happy Birthday Chana!
Thank you for gifting our school with a new set of sand shovels! We all enjoyed playing with them!
One of our favorite lineup/waiting games is playing "Simon Says." Our friends got creative when they had turns to play "Simon" and instructed their friends to touch different parts of our bulletin board tree! They know what the roots, bark, trunk, branches and leaves are!
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