Dear Blue Room Families,

This week we were so excited to see our friends back from Passover break! Shaina and I feel so blessed to be able to teach your children. When each child walked in our classroom after break, it truly made our hearts full knowing that they wanted to come back to school!

This week we explored with paint for a secret Mother’s Day present! Each student enjoyed getting messy with the paint as it was a new sensory project for them. We used several colors that also allowed for teaching moments to occur- we talked about the colors of the rainbow and where we see each color in our everyday lives. Another opportunity to experience sensory processes was when we played and explored with glitter slime. This was a hit! We used sea shells and ceramic circles to make an imprint on the slime.

We’ve been practicing our math skills by laying out written cards labeled from 1-5 and rolling a large die. The children were asked to count the number on the dice and match it up to the numbers written out on the table. They loved it and kept asking to have another turn! Each children has successfully been improving in their counting abilities! Furthermore, we used stamps and each stamp that went onto their paper- we counted!

It’s been getting hotter outside so we are now allowing the children to have water play! Each child enjoys being able to water the garden, sit in a big bucket filled with water and adding water to the mud to bake, build, and explore! If you haven’t already, please send your child with extra summer clothes. Thank you in advance!

Quote of the week:
“We’re looking for beetles Morah Lexi. It’s not yucky… it’s cute!” 

 

Wishing you all a wonderful Shabbos,

Morah Lexi and Morah Shaina

 Dear Blue Room Families:

Shabbat Shalom! This week we incorporated Pesach activities into our learning invitations! Let’s take a look at what we learned!

The Seder Plate:

We ate some delicious matzah! We dipped celery, lettuce and parsley into water with salt. We ate hard boiled eggs. We also made Korech sandwiches out of matzah and lettuce. We explained to our friends that the vegetables dipped in the salt water symbolized the tears of the Jewish people when they were slaves. The hard boiled egg symbolizes the festival offerings brought to the Holy Temple and the Korech symbolizes the sacrifice of the meal they ate for Pesach. Most of our friends did not enjoy the veggies dipped in salt water, but our friend Luka said “This is yummy. Can I have more?” 

Preparing for Pesach

We introduced that cleaning before Pesach is very important and we should make sure to clean up all the bread crumbs. So we decided that cleaning our chairs with soap and water would be a helpful cleaning activity! Our friends enjoyed using various sponges to clean. Furthermore, we used water paint on paper and later painted on sandpaper. The sandpaper symbolized pyramids and how they might feel. I asked our friend Avi what it feels like and he said “sand.”

 Afikomen Fine Motor & Art Project

We ended our week with making afikomen bags that are being sent home! The children are very excited to be put their very own matzah inside of them! 

Shabbos Party with Friends!

We had a wonderful Shabbos party with our Peach Room friends! For the last three weeks we have been having Shabbos parties with them, and our blue room friends love “the little babies!”

We wish you all a beautiful Shabbos! We hope you are hearing all about what our friends have been learning for Pesach - they are LOVING it!

With love,

Morah Lexi & Morah Shaina

Dear Blue Room Families:


This week we focused on building pyramids. We learned that pyramids can be made out of stone, bricks and granite. Each time we stacked our blocks, we counted them. We got up to 17 blocks high! Avi cheered with so much joy when we stacked our blocks so high! Bella enjoyed touching each block as we counted them. With magnitiles, we learned that a square goes on the bottom and we can use 4 triangles to hold it up. This meant that we used 5 materials to make one pyramid!

Our friends were extra caring and helpful this week! We are learning how to clean up after ourselves after snack and help the morahs clean up the tables and floor! Ethan even told Bella, “Here Bella, I can help you open up your lunch box.” When we were in story time, Daria loved to get everyone’s water bottles for them! Esther was happy to pick up another  book for morah when she finished reading the first one. We are really learning the importance of using our words, gentle hands, and doing many mitzvahs.

We focused our sensory play on using dough that looked like matzah. We used legos to stamp our matzah so that it would resemble real matzah. Beatrice enjoyed the squishy feeling of the play dough. Avigail preferred to stamp with legos. Yosef used his fist to pound his play dough flat.

 

We also ate real matzah, and most of our friends loved it. Marlowe described it as “crunchy,” Ariel described it as “yummy,” Mika said “It tastes like Matzah!” and Luka told us that it tastes like “ice cream and strawberries.” The rest of our friends agreed with him! We started to introduce the Seder plate, and next week we will be tasting what goes on the Seder plate.

Our friends are loving the story of Pesach and can almost recite our book of the week saying “Let my people go!” We are excited to continue teaching our friends about all the aspects of Pesach.

We hope you have a wonderful Shabbat and a very fun weekend!

Much love,
Morah Lexi and Morah Shaina