Morah Katie: We have a lot of apple activities in our classroom. What are we preparing for?
Moshe: Rosh Hashanah is a sweet new year. We dip apples in honey.

Evan: We dip apples in honey on Rosh Hashanah.
Morah Katie: Why?
Evan: We want it to be sweet.
Morah Katie: What is IT?
Evan: The holiday, to be sweet.
Morah Katie: What happens after the holiday?
Evan: Well the whole year should be sweet. 
Moshe: If someone is struggling you can invite them to play.
Evan: If someone is alone you can ask them to play.
Eli: You can help.

Morah Katie: What is something you can do to have a sweet new year?
Eli: Helping.
Evan: You just want to be nice to people.

Morah Katie:  What is a Shofar?
Moshe: A thing that Rabbi blows to remind it’s a sweet New Year.
Kenya: He blows it.

 

 

Moshe: Pomegranates have lots of seeds, for  a lot of blessings and a sweet new year.

Morah Tzivie: Pomegranates have so many, so many seeds.  We hope Hashem will send us so many good things this new year.

Our Rosh Hashanah sensory box was fun for discovery, and for calming.

We created sweet cereal apples in red, yellow and green.

 

Brexton: Morah Katie, it's green circles, red circles, yellow circles.
Morah Katie: I see the green, red, and yellow circles also.

 Fun apple science:
Apple boats
Morah Katie: Do you think apples will sink or float? 
Moshe: Float. 
Morah Katie: Let's make boats and find out.
 Moshe: It is spinning and floating! 

Shoshi was surprised her apple boat floated. 

Gwen noticed there was a yellow, red and green boat, just like the apples all around our classroom.

Smelling and tasting!

Sense of Smell

Guess the Smell 

 Lemon scented play dough

 Sense of Taste:

 Guess the Taste.

Morah Katie: What was the item?

Moshe: It was a grape.

Morah Katie: What did it taste like?

Moshe: Round.

Morah Katie: Round.  I bet it did feel round.

Morah Katie: Gwen, what did you taste?

Gwen: Chocolate! Yummy!

Morah Katie: Evie are you ready to taste something?

Evie: Uh huh.

Morah Katie: What did you taste? 

Evie: (Peeking) Cheese... coconut!

 

Morah Eden: What are you tasting?

Friends: Yum!

Salty, Sweet, Bitter, Sour

Morah Katie: Think of things you eat.  What is something you eat that is sweet?

Moshe: Mango.

Shoshi: Coconut.

Moshe: Strawberry.

Morah Katie: Why is something sour you might eat?

Shoshi: Lemon.

Moshe: Lemonade.

Morah Katie: What would be a bitter food?

Shoshi: Maror.

Morah Katie: Maror is a bitter food. What would be a salty food?

Shoshi: Salt.

Moshe:  On challah

We extended our taste testing.

Shoshi: Where is the maror? I do not want to eat maror.

Morah Katie: We are not going to eat maror today. We have other tastes to try.  

Shoshi: Ok. Let's try this. (cocoa). Oh.  

Evie: UH. OH. Uh. NO.

Shoshi. It's ok.

Morah Katie: Cocoa powder is bitter. Do you prefer the bitter cocoa or the salty chip? 

Evie: Chip! 

Shoshi: I like both.

 Gwen: The lemon is sour sweet sour. Sour.

 Moshe: The chips were salty.  I liked them.  The cocoa was bitter.

Morah Katie: How did you feel when you tasted the cocoa?

Moshe: Bitter bitter. I liked the sweet honey. 
Zoey: The cocoa bitter tastes like dirt.

 Brexton: Salty is better. Bitter. Sweet is better.