Dear Blue Room Families,

This week we continued to learn about Purim! Let’s take a closer look into our week:

Block Exploration:

This week began with our friends using their imaginations to create a magical castle using blocks. We asked our friends “What can you build?” We put our creativity to the test and created some colorful, tall, and mighty castles. Our friend, Mika, even decided to make an “obstacle course” with her blocks!

Art Exploration:

We sent home groggers that the children finished up this week! We learned that we shake it as loud as we can when we hear the name Haman. We also spent several days making crowns. First we used crayons to color. Next we glued golden stars, pom poms, and gems onto our crowns. Multi-step processes allow children to connect more deeply with their work as well as exercise their delayed-gratification times. Having the ability to accept delayed gratification, when a child does not start, finish, and receive something right away, improves academic and work outcomes as children get older. 

As we used our pincer grasp and hand eye coordination, we learned that crowns resemble royalty and how Queen Esther wore one as well. We wanted them to resemble Queen Esther’s royalty! We even wore them while davening to show Hashem that we are royal queens and kings too!

 

Literacy Exploration:

This week was extra fun due to the GIANT Purim book we read! The book is almost as big as our blue room friends! We also watched a lot of puppet shows by Morah Shaina explaining the story of Queen Esther. The puppets allowed the story to be told in a fun and engaging way that each student absolutely loved. Some of our friends started to even read the story of Megillas Esther to one another. The children are enjoying our Purim activities and are looking forward to our Purim celebration together.

Our tzedakah box got full towards the end of the week so Rabbi came to visit us in our class. He sang our tzedakah song with us as he took our tzedakah money to the poor people so they will have clothes, food, and toys too! We are all so excited to celebrate Purim together next week and show off our fabulous costumes! 

Please remember to bring in your child's mishloach manot items and join us in dressing up for spirit week!

Yosef: Veggie Straws

Avi: Applesauce

Avigail: Granola Bars

Ariel: Clementines

Luka: Mini Peppers

Mika: Mini Carrots

Bella: Original Pringles

Esther: Bananas

Beatrice: Crunchy Rollers

Daria: That's It Fruit Bars

Marlowe: Tree Top Apple Juice Boxes

Ethan: Pretzels

 We hope you have a wonderful Shabbat!

Morah Lexi & Morah Shaina