Dear Parents,
   As we close another year here at CJP, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our families for choosing and trusting us with your precious children it truly has been an honor to see and be a part each child's growth and development. 

Here are some highlights of this week:

Dramatic Play

We have opened a Beauty Salon in our drama center as the children prepare for the Holiday of Shavuot. The Jewish people prepared themselves before the giving/receiving of the Torah.  They put on their best clothes, nicest shoes and finest jewelry.  The children are exploring a similar experience at our beauty salon.  As our dramatic play center has evolved over the course of this year, our friends have mastered many social and real-life skills.  It is beautiful to see the children engage in authentic and meaningful cooperative and imaginative play.  The problem solve, devise solutions and transform materials to represent their play scripts.  Our friends loved taking turns painting nails and using the blow dryer to style their own hair.

This week we had a special visit from the Valley Metro city bus.  The children explored the outside and the inside of the city bus, and they even pretended to drive the bus and honk the horn! We also worked on creating shapes on geo boards with rubber bands and played with cloud dough in the sensory table.   Everyone has also enjoyed the water play, thanks for sending your child in their swim suits each day it has been really helpful. 

Wishing you a restful Shabbat and we hope to see you for Summer Camp!

Morah Felicia and Morah Menucha

Dear Parents,
    Welcome back families and friends!  We hope you all enjoyed your Pesach break.  This week we focused on settling into the daily routine.

Loose parts play

The children have really enjoyed playing with cups in our block center.  They had endless fun turning these ordinary plastic ups into huge towers that they could knock down, train tracks for their trains to  go through, pins to race down the slide in loft, wearing them on their arms and becoming "Stormtroopers"  These cups provided great opportunities for the children to not only use their imaginations but also to problem solve, work and play together.
Art
This week we worked with clay, painted with shaving cream and water colors.  Our friends love to get messy and experience the different textures of the clay and shaving cream.  They used words like "squishy"  and "slimy" to describe what they were feeling. 

We are looking forward to Morah menucha coming back on monday. 

 
Shabbat shalom!
Morah Felicia