Thank you for our home!

With Thanksgiving and Chanuka around the corner our theme this week was thankful for our homes.

As an introduction before our Chanuka unit where we talk about Hashem's home, the Beis Hamikdash we first talk about our own homes.

 Ayal, telling us whats inside his home and what he loves. 

We created our own homes craft. This was a great opportunity to talk about why our homes are special to us and who lives inside!

During circle time, we each shared what we are thankful for!

Levi- my socks

Yossi c- Hashem 

Eli-My Tzsis and toy truck

Nechama- 5 crackers in my lunch bag

Axel- mommy

Mordechai- oatmeal 

Avraham-crunchi bar

Ayal- Abba picks him up on his shoulders and cookies.

Arielle- me

Practicing gratitude to Hashem in honor of Thanksgiving. 

Our friends making a delicious nutritious salad. Thank you Hashem for dioicous vegetables!

Working on our safe cutting skills.

Eli, using his hand fingers to cut the lettuce.

Enjoying the first rain!

Trying to catch drops!

Thank you big brother for helping with my hood.

Wet sand is a whole different sensory experience. 

Friends climbing together and being aware of our own space.

I did it!

Getting ready for our Chanuka bulletin board.

 Donuts for Dad!

Using hammers and nails with our fathers!

We made special gifts for our special dads.

We love you Dads!

I have two voices inside me!

This week's Parsha is Toldos. We learned about the twins that Yitzchak and Rivka had. 

Yakov and Esav both very physically different as well as personalities. 

Kfir felt  Esav's skin that was red and hairy.

Our acting skills coming to life during Parsha time.

Yakov, who was intrested in doing Mitzvahs and learning Torah was making a soup for his father. Esav, busied himself with hunting and was willing to sell his birth right to Yakov since he just wanted to eat the soup. 

We learned about table manners and what is really important in life. 

We made our very own lentil vegetable soup! It was so delicious!

Enjoying the soup in the afternoon with our friends from the other class!

We all have a YAKOV and ESAV voice inside us. We are not bad for having thoughts to do something not good we need to make sure our Yakov voice is strong enough to do the right thing or fix our mistake.

Mendy, working hard on his Yakov and Esav puppet and writing down what a Yakov or Esav voice would sound like.

During Davening circle we have been doing Esav breathing - when we tense up our whole body and make a mad face and release our breath relaxing our body like Yakov. 

Mimi "Maybe Esav's hair was red since he got mad all the time."

Catching 'Yakov moments'. Friends raise their hands when they want to answer a question instead of talking on top of other people.

By clean up, at first friends did not want to stop and clean but after remember we also have a 'Yakov voice' friends quickly chose a job to help.

Kfir, remembering how to hold a scissor in a safe way.

Prk Kria

Learning the letter Ches that starts the word Challah. Yossi  made his Ches out of two Challah braids.

Mimi, proud of her Ches project for her scrap book. Leah, tracing and naming letters.

Kindergarten Kria

Practicing our patach and kamatz by mixing it up!

We had fun with drum sticks to hear when there is two sounds or one.

Using lentils to create our  letters and sounds.

English academics 

Pumpkin science. Learning about pumpkin life cycles, measuring and density.

Learning about density…will our pumpkins sink or float?

 

Enjoying the first rain!

3 Miracles and a wedding!

This week's Parsha is Chaya Sara.

We learned about the three miracles that happened for Sara.

 

Her Shabbos candles stayed lit all week long!

We watched what happens when we lit candles and we saw them melt. 

Nechama, pretending to be Sara wne

While talking about fire and candles we learned about fire safety. If G-d forbid there  was fire on us we STOP DROP and ROLL.

Our friends, listened to what a fire alarm sounds like and what we do to make sure we are safe if we have to leave. 

Fire inspired art. Nechama, writing on a bag filled with fire colors and seeing what it looks like on top of tinfoil. Yossi, making his fire out of qtips.

Sara's Challah was fresh all week long!

While talking about Challah we did a science experiment with yeast. One bottle had yeast and water the other just water we watched the balloon puff up just like Challah rises when we use yeast.

Inside the tent we placed a challah play dough center to practice our baking skills.

Levi, created his challah for his project.

We love being part of making the Challah dough for our class!

There was a cloud on top of Avraham and Sara's tent to show Hashem was so close to them! 

Making clouds out of shaving cream and glue!

Avraham and Sara had a son named Yitzchak who married Rivka in this week's Parsha. 

We celebrated with a mock wedding to learn all about a Jewish wedding.

The 'Tattys' the fathers bringing the chattan to the  Chuppah. 

The Kallah with the mothers walking around the Chattan 7 times.

Dancing and celebrating!

Making sure our garden is watered is an important job our friends do.

Axel, taking a drive.

Ayal and Levi said they were making a house.

Good Shabbos!