Its been another busy week filled with fun! The Yellow Room enjoyed tons of new and renewed activities and toys.
On Tuesday, our morning activity brought the abacus out. Moving the beads around was entertaining, and difficult at first. This gave Morah Jac a great opportunity to reference the bead colors; as well as counting 1-4.
During free play Madison has begun to explore more naturally, and with more independence from Morah. She chose the balls in the morning. Dumping them on the floor then crawling around after them when they rolled away.
On Wednesday Madison showed how adventurous she is becoming. She attempted climbing up the steps to the slide. She pulls herself up on everything she can, and even tries to walk along things like the table.
At circle time we began including our basic copy cat sounds, like Ma-ma, Da-da, Ba-ba, Ga-ga, La-la and even ssssssss. These are usually sounds Morah walks around the class making as background noise during free play. It is wonderful to now incorporate them into our daily circle time. A video on Facebook shows a little clip of our fun making sounds.
Later in the afternoon we explored the empty boxes again. We added in a new cardboard tube as well that was found in our classroom. We explored how they feel, look, and sounds we can make using these items.
Thursday brought our clay back. Madison was enthralled with the texture. She enjoyed smearing and wiping.
We continue our morning davening where Madison is showing increased interest in all songs and Bruchas, but more so when we do our ABC song at the end. We have done our ABC and Alef-Bet since the beginning or the school year. Her interest peaked when sign language (ASL) was introduced. We have only just begun sign language for Alef-Bet however the ABC are very familiar to her, and brings great excitement, and joy. If the opportunity arises try this at home. She loves it!
We have also begun using "thank you" in ASL as well in the classroom. Next week we will add in "you're welcome".
Bag art with clay in the afternoon was a quick task to begin a wonderful project for our thanksgiving family party coming up.
Shabbat Shalom,
Morah Jac
On Tuesday, our morning activity brought the abacus out. Moving the beads around was entertaining, and difficult at first. This gave Morah Jac a great opportunity to reference the bead colors; as well as counting 1-4.
During free play Madison has begun to explore more naturally, and with more independence from Morah. She chose the balls in the morning. Dumping them on the floor then crawling around after them when they rolled away.
On Wednesday Madison showed how adventurous she is becoming. She attempted climbing up the steps to the slide. She pulls herself up on everything she can, and even tries to walk along things like the table.
At circle time we began including our basic copy cat sounds, like Ma-ma, Da-da, Ba-ba, Ga-ga, La-la and even ssssssss. These are usually sounds Morah walks around the class making as background noise during free play. It is wonderful to now incorporate them into our daily circle time. A video on Facebook shows a little clip of our fun making sounds.
Later in the afternoon we explored the empty boxes again. We added in a new cardboard tube as well that was found in our classroom. We explored how they feel, look, and sounds we can make using these items.
Thursday brought our clay back. Madison was enthralled with the texture. She enjoyed smearing and wiping.
We continue our morning davening where Madison is showing increased interest in all songs and Bruchas, but more so when we do our ABC song at the end. We have done our ABC and Alef-Bet since the beginning or the school year. Her interest peaked when sign language (ASL) was introduced. We have only just begun sign language for Alef-Bet however the ABC are very familiar to her, and brings great excitement, and joy. If the opportunity arises try this at home. She loves it!
We have also begun using "thank you" in ASL as well in the classroom. Next week we will add in "you're welcome".
Bag art with clay in the afternoon was a quick task to begin a wonderful project for our thanksgiving family party coming up.
Shabbat Shalom,
Morah Jac
