Transportation/ Lech Lecha

Dear Parents,
                                                                                                               
          This week our class focused on forms of Transportation and the Parsha Lech Lecha.    Here are some of the highlights of our week.
                                                                                                   

Parsha Lech Lecha 

Long ago in a land called Charan lived a man named Avraham and his wife Sara.  They lived in a place where people didnt know about Hashem, but Avraham did know about Hashem. So he and his wife Sara would teach the people of Charan about Hashem.  Many of the people in Charan learned about Hashem and became followers of Avraham. One day Hashem came to Avraham and told him he needed to pack up and move.  Avraham and Sara had so many followers that lived with them, that was a lot of people to pack up!  Charan was a desert- a dry hot place.  Traveling in the desert with so many people is not easy, there is little water and no shade from the sun. Moving would be very hard. Plus Hashem didn't tell Avraham where they would be going!  But Avraham made good choices and listened to Hashem.  And so Avraham and Sara and their followers packed up and left Charan and traveled to a land called Canaan- the land that would one day become Israel.  When they arrived Hashem told Avraham they would have a child, and from that child would come many children and from those children would come even more children, until the children that came from Avraham would be as many as the stars in the sky!  And the land of Canaan (Israel) would be forever theirs.

                                                                                                      

Tinkering/Manipulatives

This week our friends were invited to tinker and play with shapes to create their own star Mandalas.  A visual picture of a starry night sky was set out along with pictures frames to define individual work space, and shapes such as hexagons, parallelograms, squares, and triangles.   An example was displayed and the children were encouraged to add on and create their own.  Leah, Gavin, and Rivkale really enjoyed this activity. They added on to Morah Felicia's example then they started  their own.  We created patterns with diamonds and different colors.  

                                                                                                                                   

Matching/sorting

Morah Felicia invited Ronan and Davis to join her in a game.  First Morah showed images of a road, sky, a body of water and train tracks.  When  Morah showed the images of the water, Davis said, "hey that's where fishies live!"  Morah responded, "How interesting, you're right."  After all the images were presented Morah showed her friends a basket with different pieces in it.  Morah asked "I wonder where a car would move, do you think in the sky with the birds?"  Davis answered, "Noooooo, a car drives on the road"  and placed the car on the picture with the road.  We continued to sort matching the boat with the water picture and planes with the sky picture.  Ronan found a train in the basket and said, "Choo Choo"  and put the train on the picture with the train track.  Our friends were then encouraged to play the game again with each other.
                                                                                                                               
This week we also worked on creating forms of Transportation such as trains and boats out of shapes and we worked on creating a classroom boat. Our friends sanded and painted the wood pieces and the morahs helped assemble the boat. We will later experiment to see if it floats on water!

Next week we will be starting our gratitude/Fall unit. We hope to see all of our CJP families at our Thanksgiving lunch on Nov. 21 at 11:30 a.m.

And don't forget to come out to our annual  Sip and Shop this Sunday Nov. 11 starting at 6 pm.  Support our pre school and small local businesses.  As always wishing a restful Shabbos enjoy your long weekend.