Thanksgiving

This week in the Blue Room we prepared for our annual Thanksgiving feast.  Our class was in charge of making salad dressing for the salad we had for lunch. We were given a recipe to follow. Our friends took turns carefully measuring out ingredients and pouring everything together. After all our ingredients were in bowl we took turns using a whisk to mix it all up.  This activity provided us the opportunity to broaden our vocabulary, practice self regulation, and gross motor, as well caring for community.  We also finished our projects for our parents.  We hope everyone enjoyed them as much as we did making them.  Thank you for everything you do.  See everyone on Monday.

This week in the Blue Room here's what we did:

Sensory
We had Cloud doh in our Sensory table Cornstarch, flour, and baby oil mixed all up. Our friends were so intrigued by the soft and squishy texture. they were busy all morning burying and digging up treasures and pouring and scooping up cakes.  We had a special davening with Morah Shternie and slowly but surely working our way to normalizing our classroom. During outside play we collaborated with the other classrooms and set up different centers.  There was a block center, sensory center, clay table, and bubbles.

 Thanksgiving
We started our place settings for Thanksgiving feast. Two different colors of paint were set out with some paintbrushes and our friends were invited to personalize a gourd to make our arrangement more festive and unique. Some friends chose to use one color and others chose to mix both the colors and discover a new third color.

Dance
We also had dance class. Friends did army crawls building core and upper body movements also played a round of freeze dance with special sparklers.  The big shul was full length laughter when the glare for the sun hit their sparklers to shine glitter throughout the room.

Highlights

 This week some personal highlights some friends showed self awareness. We're are working so hard on being aware of other friends work and personal space. This week  Shaya and Ava both chose to walk around their friends block towers  while playing outside in our centers. They chose to walk around instead of  through way to go friends. Yosef put both of his shoes on all by himself. He showed self care and is building his self confidence by discovering he can do things on his own.

 On Friday we welcomed Morgan back to class Next week will be our annual Thanksgiving feast we look forward to celebrating with each of you may please RSVP on the sheet outside our classroom door. This year our class will be making the salad dressing.  Shabbat Shalom.

           Blue Room

Apple Toss & Birthday Baking

Dear Parents,

          This week in the classroom we noticed that some of our children were getting super excited about throwing things. We brainstormed on how we might be able to harness this "talent" and we developed an apple and gourds toss game. Our friends took turns tossing fruit into colored circles.  It took so much patience  for each friend to wait their turn but when it finally was they were so excited to toss the fruit. Our friends worked on their motor skills, fine tuning their tosses to get them in the right spot. What a challenge  Our friends really enjoyed playing this game together as morning a activity. 
  
Also this week our friends worked together to bake a special birthday cake for our friend Avery's birthday.   First we read the recipe and gathered all the the ingredients were going to need then each friend took a turn adding their ingredient into the bowl. When everything was added we all took a turn whisking it all together. Then Morah Sydney put it in the oven to bake.  
      
Our week was busy full of teamwork and building social skills. Next week we start to our projects for Thanksgiving. Shabbat Shalom.
      Morah Felicia & Morah Sydney

Baby Goats and Still Life Painting

Dear Parents,

    It's great to be back in the Blue room!  I would like to personally thank you each and every one of you for your patience, support, and cooperation during my maternity leave.  

 In an effort to ease the transitions of all our friends please remember that :

1. Arrival time should be between 9 and 915 any later makes it moe difficult for our children to trnsition

2. Remember to write mitzvah notes for your child at morning drop off. We will potentially use them for an upcoming project of ours. 

3.  Remember to say your, “See you later,” at the door and let your child walk in on his or her own.

 A Morah will be at the door for any extra assistance needed with belongings or extra hugs.This allows for a smoother transition.  If your child is having a harder time with drop off prepare them ahead of time by explain step by step to them what will happen when they get to school so they know what to expect and the anxiety isn't so high.

      This week we had our 4th annual petting zoo out in the playground. The children had a blast as usual but there was an interesting impromptu twist this year, we had baby goats that ran around freely throughout the entire playground. Our friends were impressively gentle with all three kids and enjoyed frolicking around the grounds with them.

      Inside the classroom we incorporated farm animals into our clay provocations. Creating a variety of hoof patterns in our clay as well sorting our animals by color. We recognized the that ducks feet are webbed and horses have hooves. Also we introduced still life portrait paintings with gourds being our subjects. Children were encourage to excersise patience and be cognizant of the personal space of others. They are expressing and exploring  with seasonal harvest self creativity within the boundaries of the subjects they paint and colors being used.

        Next week we like to keep the exploration of animals and seasonal harvest open along with introducing the concept gratitude. 

 Shabbat Shalom!