New textures, boxes, and fun!

Welcom to another sunny week with the Yellow Room 

 This week has been filled with friends, learning, and fun.

On Tuesday we played with a new sensory item: cotton stuffing, pompoms, and cotton balls. This showed us the different textures of similar items. Madison liked holding the pompom in one hand and tipping the bin over with the other. Morah took the bin and shook it to make new sounds like popcorn. Madison was fascinated by the items flying out of the bin as Morah Jac bounced them around for her.

We also once again joined our friends in the Purple Room  Davening is so exciring when we do it together.
We also read more about Parsha Noah. After nap time Madison continued to work on our Ark by adding rainbow colored yarn, ribbon, and string. Maddie enjoyed the ribbons; pulling them off and placing them back onto the picture.

Tuesday also brought our highchair just in time for lunch! Although Madison was much more interested in the boxed our new chair brought with it. We played the boxes like drums; exploring them inside and out.

 We would like to thank Morah Sydney for visiting on Wednesday while Morah Jac was away.

 Wednesday night brought curriculum night for all parents of our CJP community. Wonderful fun thanks to Morah Masha!

 Thursday was a busy morning davening with the Purple Room. Madison enjoyed hearing all the songs so loud and clear watching her friends with a huge smile on her face!

 After nap we played with stick puppets Morah Jac made, and used a flash light to see the light and dark. Maddie enjoyed the puppets and lights very much and even pointed to it in one of our Shabbos books.

 We have begun reading and looking at Shabbat books during afternoon circle time. Even though we are not here on Fridays it is a great opportunity to show and talk about our wonderful Shabbat customs. It will be a continued focus to bring more familiarity and recognition to the holiday each week.

Shabbat Shalom

Morah Jac

Animals!

A joyful Welcome back!

We are so excited to have gotten back into a full week!  I hope everyone had a happy and beautiful Yom Tov.

This week the Yellow Room was full of social interactions, getting comfortable in our routine again, and lots of learning together.

On Tuesday Madison and I took a trip down the hall to visit our school library. Madison enjoyed looking at picture books. We brought some books about animals back to our classroom so we could learn about the Parsha of Noah this week! 

We also joined our big kid friends in the Purple room to read last week's parsha. Madison loves being read to, and shows great focus and interest.

We also started an art project. Morah Jac made an ark out of construction paper and added some animals. With a few loose parts items given one at a time Madison tried to stick the fur/wool, stripes and feathers to the animals on the page. We will continue this project next week.

On Wednesday after davening we enjoyed reading our animal books. Madison has begun to point to the animals on the page. Morah says the name of the animal and the sound it makes; this makes Madison smile.

We also enjoyed some outdoor play. 

Thursday was a fun filled day! To go along with the Parsha of Noach, Farmer Sean brought some animals to visit with us. Madison liked to watch the animals but was not ready to touch them at first. She was more interested in her hat strings until we found the sheep. Madison touched the sheep's soft wool. She also pointed to the animals especially the Llama. We followed the Llama a couple of times.

Shabbat Shalom!

Morah Jac