Wednesday, March 25, 2015

ALEF BET TIME

MORAH AND FRIENDS SPEND SOME TIME REVIEWING THE DIFFERENT HEBREW LETTERS THAT WE HAVE LEARNED SO FAR THIS YEAR. WE WORK HARD BUT HAVE SO MUCH FUN TRYING TO MAKE THE LETTERS USING MANY DIFFERENT TACTILE OBJECTS. THE CHILDREN FELT CHALLENGED AND PROUD OF THEMSELVES DOING THIS ACTIVITY.

MORE RECENTLY WE HAVE LEARNED ALL ABOUT THE LETTER MEM. WE KNOW THAT MOSHE AND MIMI BOTH HAVE NAMES THAT BEGIN WITH MEM. MORAH ALSO TAUGHT US THAT MATZAH, MARROR, AND MOSHE ( ALL FROM WHAT WE HAVE BEEN LEARNING ABOUT PASSOVER) ALL BEGIN WITH THE LETTER MEM ALSO.
YONI HELPING US REVIEW LETTER ALEF

ARI AND AMLIA MAKE AN ALEF OUR OF MAGNETILES ALL BY THEMSELVES

MOSHE MAKES AN ALEF OUT OF STRING

CAYLA POINTIG OUT THE LETTER ALEF TO HER FRIENDS FROM THE CHART

BENNY HELPS MORAH MAKE A BET OUT OF BLOCKS

ABIGAIL, ETHAN, AND SHAINA WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE A BET OUT OF CLICKS

ETHAN AND ABIGAIL MAKE A SHIN OUT OF MAGNETILES AND FEELING PROUD

OUR NEWEST LETTER MEM 

PURIM FUN

WE SPENT TIME LEARNING ALL ABOUT THE PURIM STORY AND HOW QUEENS ESTHER HELPED TO SAVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE MEAN HAMAN BY TELLING KING ACHASHVEROSH ALL ABOUT HIS EVIL PLAN WITH THE ENCOURAGEMENT FROM HER UNCLE MORDECHAI. WE CELEBRATE TIS VICTORY BY DOING FOUR DIFFERENT THINGS: WE GIVE MISHLOACH MAOT- FOOD BASKETS, MATANOT LEVYONIM- TZEDAKAH, WE READ THE MEGILLAH AND WE EAT A SEUDAH- MEAL. 
OUR CLASS HAD A WONDERFUL TIME DRESSING UP AND RETELLING THE STORY WITH MORAH AND OUR OTER NURSERY FRIENDS. WE DANCED AND HAD LOTS OF FUN!
WE HOPE YOU LIKED ALL THE PROJECTS THAT THE CHILDREN WORKED SO HARD MAKING! 

YUMMY HAMANTAHSEN THAT WE MADE WITH MORAH

LOOK AT ALL OF OUR FANTASTIC COSTUMES!

LISTENING TO MORH RETELL HE STORY OF PURIM

DANCE PARTY WITH OUR OTHER NURSERY FRIENDS

Saturday, March 7, 2015

The letter M

The letter M is a special letter. In our class it starts with Mimi and Moshe! We have been learning about the letter M and we know Milk and Money and Mommies! Start with the letter M. We also made our beautiful mask that start with the letter M in sprint of Purim. 
The making of the Masks...
Sticker placement deliberation...
Moshe carefully placing the stickers on.  

Doctors

Students exploring with Doctor tools.
Doctors at people that help us be healthy. We learned that doctors are friendly people in our community that help keep our body healthy. We learned that doctors have different types of tools to help check our body. They have thermometers to check our temperature, stethoscopes to check our heart and a Medi-scope to look in our ears. Sometimes doctors give us shots but it is to keep us healthy. Each friend had a partner and instrument to check if everyone was healthy. 
What does the stethoscope do?
Amalia our school nurse

Moshe's Birthday


Moshe turned 4! We are so excited for the Benni family because of Moshe's birthday. We all prepared him gifts and we made him cake for his speicial day. It was terrific! 

Cake Time!
.......and dancing

Our community helper Dentist

We have been learning about doctors. There is a doctor for your body and a doctor for your teeth. Dentists are people that keep our teeth healthy. After we read "I go to the Dentist" by Rekke Benefend, Sasha a Dental Hygienist came to in to show us how to brush our teeth. We first practiced on a dinosaur and then we received tooth brushed to practice at home! 
Sasha giving tooth brushes presents!




Book Donation

Abbie's parents Anna and Fred donated books to our library. Thank you!