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