Cruising, standing, and lots of new textures!

We’d like to give a big WELCOME to Ella Rozendorn!! 👏 👏 👏 She transitioned very well into our classroom and we love having you join us every day!

Wow! What a busy week we had, new faces and new adventures! We spent the week cruising, scooting, and  pulling up as we hold on to furniture. The morah has been challenging us by providing opportunities to cruise around. Our favorite was the rolling tubes. Morah would roll them and we’d follow the rolling tube. Another favorite was the balls of different textures and sizes. We love chasing the balls in the room.

Our pincer grasp is only getting better. We tried to pull out different straws inserted into a box. We got to chew on them as well.

Oh the soft gooey feeling of the coconut flour mixed with water was an amazing project we did this week. It got a bit messy, but the messier, the merrier! Morah talked about the dry warm powder. After we added water, it turned into wet, lumpy, cold texture. Now that was a party to our hands.

Our visits to the Peach room are always fun. This week, we got to see two small turtles. Morah Lindsey gave us pieces of lettuce and we got to feed them!

As we cruised around the Peach room, we found a big pool full of some colorful balls. There were red ones, blue ones, yellow, orange , and green ones. The most fun part was throwing them out and seeing where they rolled to.

In our surprise box this week, we found a bag with noodles in it. We took them out and played with them in a bin. 

We love using the instruments in class. We added our special sound to the song “Friends, Friends, 1,2,3”  Maddie chose the maracas, while Ella picked the tambourine. As with everything else, the morah models how to use them.  This activity turned into a totally different one. As we emptied out the instrument bucket and filled it up again we learned about “in/out”. 

We hope the weather is warmer next week, so we can hang out and learn about the environment outside.

Lastly, please note that we take every opportunity that comes to introduce new language. We use a lot of descriptive words with emotions to explain what we are doing, seeing, touching, hearing , and tasting. As we may already know, doing so aids in forming stronger language and conversational skills in the years ahead.

Shabbat Shalom!
Morah Anna