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.  The Morahs tell their friends about Yonah and his journey to Ninveh.

Morah Shayna explains that the walls of the Succa are like Hashem's arms and when we are inside we should feel safe and it's like Hashem is giving us a great big hug. 

With Sukkot being the next holiday in this busy month, we will explore it further in the upcoming week.

Our friends had exploring playdoh with loose parts. They created many different things like cookies and cakes this lead them to extend their playdoh play into the Dramatic play area where the cooked and created their own food dishes out of playdoh.  

 

Wishing you a great Shabbat. 

Morah Felicia and Morah Shayna

Continuing Rosh Hashana

Dear Parents, 

 This week we welcomed a new friend to the Blue Room family: Avi!  We also continued our Rosh Hashana unit.  Here are some highlights from the week:

Art

 

This week our friends used bubble wrap and yellow paint to create honeycomb like textured pictures for Rosh Hashana.  As our friends painted they also had fun squeezing the air bubbles from the bubble wrap and watch the paint splatter onto the paper. 

We also painted with watercolors this week.  Exploring watercolors was fun.  Our friends are learning how to follow a multiple step process.  First, they had to wet their paint brush, then choose a color to use, and finally rinse their brush with water again to change and use a different color. They enjoyed blending colors to discover new ones on their paper.  For example, we discovered yellow and blue make green!

 

Math/Fine Motor

 

The children have been so interested in the Geo boards this week. They were invited to create symmetrical lines and geometric shapes. Our friends were fascinated by how they could manipulate their rubber band to make different shapes. 

 

We also enjoyed doing shape and size puzzles. They did puzzles matching the correct shape to the correct size.  When our friends were done the morah pointed out the smallest shape and the biggest shape. Our friends are learning to discern the similarities and differences in colors and shapes. They use those same skills to recognize the difference between letters and numbers.  In addition, early recognition of shapes is correlated with our friend's ability to recognize letters.

 

Science

 

This week, our friends were invited to clean up and examine some shofars from Rabbi Dietsch.  There were a variety of shapes and sizes some were smooth and some were so rough.  Some were spiral shaped and some looked like a banana shape!  Our friends pretended to blow the shofar like Rabbi does in Shul. 

 

 

 

 We are wishing you a beautiful new year with your loved ones and a restful, peaceful Shabbos.

 

Morah Felicia and Morah Shayna