Dear Parents!

This week in the Blue Room, we explored the next high holiday,Yom Kippur. During Rosh Hashanah we learned that we want to ask Hashem for help to be the best we can be.Yom Kippur is when we ask all our friend's forgiveness for any wrong we may have done towards them.  During Yom Kippur we also hear the story of Yonah and the Big Fish. Morah Ora tells us about Yonah and his journey to Ninveh.

Project this week was 

Lemon Besamim

Our friends poked holes first in the side of a lemon and then carefully inserted the cloves into the lemon.

For our abbas and immas to smell them on Yom Kippur fast:

Smelling Besamim on Yom Kippur has been a a long standing custom. As we fast, it is a challenge to complete the "100 Brachot" we strive to make each day; smelling Besamim helps us along to reach that goal.

Have a good and easy fast!

Shabbat Shalom, Morah Ora and Morah Chaya

Dear parents!

This week we wrapped up our Rosh Hashanah unit.

Our friends learned about bees, flowers and honey.

We spoke about how the flowers benefit bees by providing them with the food bees need. Bees feed on nectar and pollen of flowers.

Nectar is the sweet liquid that flowers produce. Then we spoke about how bees need flowers to make honey.

Nature Walk

Our friends went on a nature walk to collect some flowers and leaves. The next day, we dried them and looked through the magnifying glass to see how they shrink up when they are dried. We then saved them for our honey bowl project.

Honey Bowl Project

We took our dried flowers and glued them with Modge Podge onto a glass bowl. Wow, they came out amazing. We can't wait to show our beautiful honey bowls to our parents and fill them with honey.

Dear parents, we would like to wish you Shana tova U’metuka.

We will see you in the 5781 year!!!

And shabbat shalom!

Morah Ora and Morah Chaya

Dear parents! 

Rosh Hashana:

With Rosh Hashana around the corner, this week we introduced some concepts about the Holiday through our centers and morning circle times. In morning circles, we discussed how Rosh Hashana is the new year, a new beginning. Just like we had a first day of school, we have a first day of a new year. We ask Hashem for help to become our best self and for a sweet new year. We do this by blowing the shofar, eating sweet foods like apples dipped in honey, or sending cards to our family and friends, saying Shana Tova to wish them a sweet new year too. The Morahs explained the shofar comes from a Ram and when we blow the shofar, we can think of a mitzvah we can do to be a better friend and more helpful to our friends and family.

Discovery table:
We set up a discovery table with all things Rosh Hashana related such as apples, honey, shofars, and a variety of pictures. Our friends were invited to explore the materials. The discovery table is one of the first things the children see when they come in the morning. Through exploring and investigating these authentic objects, our friends begin to build their own experiences with them.

Sensory exploration:
This week on the sensory table we had apples, oats, and scoopers.  Our friends used scoopers to scoop the oats and hide apples with the oats .Then we counted how many apples are on the sensory table and we also counted apples in English and Hebrew. 

The sensory table allows our friends to enrich their vocabulary. By adding new materials and allowing them to explore and discover, we learn new words.

Sensory of taste:

Another activity we did is tasting different types of honey. We dipped apples in the honey and wished each other a sweet New Year. We had two different type of apples,Granny Smith and Fuji. Our friends were invited to choose the piece of apple they wanted and dip it in the honey.

Luka chose the Granny Smith apple and said "it's sour!"

Avigail chose the Fuji apple and said "apple,honey!!"

Abigail said "green apple!!!" Her favorite color is green.

Ari decided that he wanted to taste two types of apples.

Mika enjoyed sticking her fingers in the honey and giggled.

We ended our amazing week with shabbos songs, shabbos party and glazed honey challah. Our friends glazed their challah by themselves with honey. 

Shabbat Shalom!

Morah Ora and Morah Chaya

Dear Parents!

This week we started exploring Rosh Hashana.We began by reading "Rosh Hashana is coming" and we took turns blowing the Shofar and singing a song about it!

The words of the song are to the tune of 'The Wheels on the Bus':
"The Shofar in the Shul goes toot-toot-toot
toot-toot-toot   toot-toot-toot
The Shofar in the Shul goes toot-toot-toot
on Rosh Hashana morning."

Dear parents thank you for getting the materials we asked for so we can do projects and activities with them.  This week we talked all about apples.

We have been practicing counting apples and sorting them by colors .We have ten apples in our class room and in four different colors.

In our sensory table this week we enjoyed washing apples for Rosh Hashana and practicing the bracha Ha-etz before we eat the apples.

We used sponges to wash them and worked on our fine motor skills . 

This week we also made Shana Tova cards for our loving grandparents.  We had so much fun using our apple stamps that we made from real apples to decorate the cards.

Next week we will continue exploring more about Rosh Hashana!

Thank you for another great week!

Shabbat shalom!

Morah Ora and Morah Chaya.