Back to school with a new month, a new season and a new year.

We had a lot of updating to accomplish with the Calendar.

January February 

March April May and June

July August 

September October

November December too!

Winter Spring Summer Fall

They are seasons, 4 in all

Weather changes, sun and rain and snow

Leaves fall down and flowers grow.

We made a list of words we think of when we hear the word winter.

We had the good luck of snow in the playground.

We created winter scenes.

We painted a snowy day ( or blizzards...) with bubble wrap.

We expanded on a book with creative thinking and art.

The Mitten by Jan Brett is a winter story filled with fun possibilities.

 

After the story we discussed how incredible it was all the animals fit in small knitted mitten.

Morah Katie: We each have a mitten, and it is sooooo big it can fit a ?????

I think my mitten can fit a..... Whale!

Dena: A whale?! Mine can fit a train!

Kian: Oh well mine can fit a dinosaur.

Noah: My mitten can fit a huge box.

Josiah: Mine can fit a lot of boxes too!

Tori: Mine can fit a fish.

We had enough snow for snowballs, we did not have enough for a snowman; we drew one instead.

Credits: 

Nose by Tori

Mouth by Dena

Scarf by Josiah

Arms by Kian

Feet by Noah

Eyes by Isaac

Buttons by Anton

Hat by Gracie

More Buttons by Scout

We finished our week with an experiment.

Can we make.....

 

PLAY DOUGH?

YES We CAN!!

 A class vote determined the color.

No cook play dough

2 cups flour

1/4 cup salt

1 cup warm water

1 tbsp oil (we used olive oil) 

food coloring

mix ingredients together, add coloring last.

keep in ziploc bag.

(add more water/oil depending on consistency)

Little Torah

Little Torah

Let me hold you tight

Teach me

Teach me

All your mitzvos 

so I can do them right

Morah Katie: What is a mtizvah the Torah has taught you?

Josiah: The Torah teaches us about the Torah.

Kian: It teaches us to do nice things.

Morah Katie: What type of nice things does it teach?

Noah: It tells us about all the holidays.

Dena: To do nice things for others like help.

Efraim: Sing songs of Torah.

Gracie: To give to people.

Tori: It teaches us to share with friends.

 

The mitzvos the children spoke about occur each day, in small and big gestures of kindness and friendship.

They happen when children share one toy at a table;

and when an older friend comes to visit and play.

We are very excited to celebrate two new 5 year olds!!!  Congratulations Kian and Noah!

This week we:

bundled up to enjoy the winter weather;

made Chanukah crafts to enjoy with our families;

 

created Chanukah fun in the classroom;

and watched with anticipation and awe each day as Rabbi lit our classroom menorah.

 

A Chanukah conversation:

Dena: Tori and I get to light the candles for our menorah.

Gracie: We put our menorah on the big table. We have 3!! menorahs.

Josiah: We have 2 menorah's, one that has curls and curves on it and one that doesn't.

Anton: We have a menorah.  We light it every night.

Tori:  We get to pick the candles we put in our menorah too.

Noah: We light the candles each night and we open presents.

Isaac: We put candles up each night, it lights up the sky.

Dena: We are going to take a picture of all our menorah's with all our candles on the last night. It is going to be so bright.

Noam: We light candles, the candles are in the menorah.