Welcoming Guests

Dear Parents
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This week our friends focus on  pouring water for guests and themselves.  This is a great practical life skill to have.  Our friends built concentration and working on a tray defines work space.  Children notice mistakes, (like spilled water) quickly and are willing to correct on their own, this is known as control of error.

                                                                     Art
One of our group projects this week we used to eye droppers with liquid watercolor paints, and markers to dye coffee filters for a fall project that we will continue to work on. We watched our friends experiment with colors.  Some friends used the watercolor first to the dye the filter then used marker on top and others colored with marker first then used watercolor on top and watched the color of the marker blend or bleed together.  During this project Yochai looks up from his work and says, "This is amazing!"  Tzipi was struggling to use the eye dropper.  She would  try and squeeze and when it wasn't working she would move on to color with a marker.  She did this several times,until she tried the eye dropper again and she did it!  Her face lit up when she realized she figured it out. She looked at me and we exchanged smiles and I reassured her she could do it on her own if she kept trying.

 This week Morah Kayla told us about the Parsha of Vayeira. We learned that Avraham and Sara helped other people who were traveling through the hot desert.  The tent they lived in had 4 doors and their doors would always be open so they could see all travelers coming from all directions.  Once their guests were fed and had water to drink Avraham would tell them about the ways of Hashem.  One week Avraham was not feeling well, suddenly Hashem appeared to Avraham to help him feel better.  Although Avraham was grateful Hashem came he wanted real guests to come so he could serve and teach them. Soon after this Avraham saw three travelers in the distance.  Not wanting to miss the opportunity he ran out to welcome them in.   Once Avraham and Sara got them settled the travelers told them they were special messengers sent from Hashem.  They were there to heal Avraham and to tell them they were going to have a baby!  Sara laughed, being so old she didn't expect to have any babies.  One year later Avraham and Sara welcomed their baby boy, who they named Yitzchok, meaning laughter because he brought such joy to the couple.  After eight days Yitzchok was the first baby boy to have a bris milah, a mitzvah for Jewish boys ever since.

                                                 

 This week we also welcomed two new friends to the blue room, Yochai and Hana.  We are so excited to have you in our classroom!

Thanks for a great busy week. 
Shabbat Shalom, Morah Felicia and Morah Kayla