Dear Parents,
Here are some highlights of our week. In our class we introduced the next Holiday approaching, Chanukah. Here's what we did:
Dramatic Play
This week in our Dramatic area we made pretend latkes using our props, oil, spatulas and pans. We also read a book about making latkes called, 'A Chanuka Story For Night Number Three.' The children would pretend to put oil in the pans and use the spatulas to flip them, and then serve to others on plates. One day the bottle of oil was opened and created a whole new experience for the children. We learned to some properties of oil like how slippery it is and when it touches paper it makes the paper look wet but when we touched the paper it didn't feel wet, pretty neat!
Sensory
The sensory table was filled with Chanukah foam stickers, menorah candles, and dreidels. Our friends enjoyed exploring the feeling of contrasting textures. The stickers were soft and squishy but the candles were hard and bumpy. Once the children discovered how to peel the backs off the stickers they decorated the inside of our table making it more festive.
Process Art
We practice our fine motor skill, eye and hand coordination as we paint using driedels. Morah Felicia demonstrated how to dip the driedel in paint then spin on the paper. After this our class was free to paint within the boundaries set. Some friends chose to stamp others chose to smear, and some freinds spun their dreidels each creating their own unique piece of art that will be used later in our Chanukah unit.
Table Top
This week our friends were invited to build their own Menorah using clay and loose parts. This provided great opportunity to introduce new vocabulary such as Shamash and parts of the menorah. The Shamash is the helper candle that we use to light the other candles each night of Chanukah and it's placed in the middle of the Menorah and is taller than the rest.
Morah Felicia and Morah Kayla
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