Project work benefits learning and caring as the children band together to accomplish the goal of moving the project of two peers.
Continuing the exploration of vehicles, friction, motion, and kindness.
The children’s curiosity of vehicles, motion and friction continued this week. They continued collaborating with their partners as they designed and built their vehicles. They took the exploration outside and considered what in the outdoor learning space could be used to create vehicles and transportation of motion. They had a lot of ideas, and I asked the children to think about what in the environment can move or support motion. Mae determined she could use wood tree trunks as wheels and rolled one truck section across the ground. Angie noticed the tires were an easy solution to movement. Angie and Shyli decided to take a play item that already provides transportation and remaster it for functional transportation.
Jacob and Ronan took a different perspective in creating a vehicle. They decided it could just have the purpose of transportation without the function of it (their vehicles did not move). When their train was completed Shyli was their first customer.
The children, when making their vehicles, considered the motion, size, balance, and creative design.
Yellow Room Friends continued playing with rhyming words this week trying to find as many words to rhyme with van and boat. A list of sight words went home with the children this week, Please read the words with them four times nightly. Additionally, most of the children are bringing home an easy reader. This reader should be read daily and returned on Monday’s. The easy readers are being sent home because repetition helps transition a skill from the conscious to the subconscious.
In Math this week the children used their vehicle exploration and friction to look at measurement. They raced their vehicles on the carpet noticing the friction the carpet caused the vehicle, and they determined the friction caused by the carpet slows the vehicles down. They still managed to get the cars to travel a fair distance and almost ran out of measuring curb.
The children continued to explore numbers as the bus play started earlier in the week. The chairs were set up as a ten frame. All of children were thrilled to get onto the bus and choose a place to visit. Then, after turning in their bus tickets we were off! Each bus stop some of the children disembarked. This was the perfect opportunity to discuss 10 frame math and practice subitizing. The children determined how many friends there were total on the bus while looking at how many were added and how many disembarked.
Learning, and teaching never stops in the Yellow Room! Naveed teaches the alphabet to the ducks and chickens.
The children explore art using the pointillism technique made famous by Seurat and Pisarro. It is the theory or practice in art of applying small strokes or dots of color to a surface so that from a distance they blend together. Mae expresses pride in her work.
B”H
Dear Parents,
The Yellow Room has begun learning about Shabbos. They began creating a Challa cover for their Shabbos bag. The first step entailed tye dying the material in their choice of colors, using droppers and the dipping method. Then they traced the letters spelling שבת. They will finish the covers next week.
This week’s Parsha of Teruma presented a perfect transition to Shabbos. In the parsha it discusses how the Jewish People wanted so much to be even closer to Hashem. Hashem commanded them to build a Mishkan where they can bring korbanos-presents to Hashem and feel even closer to Him. Nowadays, we have a Shul where we can go to daven to Hashem on Shabbos and Jewish holidays. Now that the Kindergarteners know what was inside the Mishkan they will be able to compare the Mishkan to the Chabad Shul which they will tour next week. The children have become familiar with the keilim (vessels) of the Mishkan: the mizbeach, Aron, Shulchan, Kiyor and Menorah.
If we were building a house for Hashem, what would you contribute to it that is special to you? I would contribute…
Shyli: … a gold necklace.
Leah: … a big giant menorah that is golden.
Leanna: … I would give food. A little bit of healthy food and a little bit of nash. And of course snacks. And of course water.
Jacob: … Tzedoka.
Mae: … Water.
Angie: … Mitzvas.
Ronan: … a tzedoko box. A silver one.
If you built a house for Hashem, what would you put in it?
Mae: A menorah.
Leah: A nice big heart like that one (like the stuffed one in the Davening Circle).
Angie: A bed with lights.
Ronan: Lots of Torahs.
Jacob: A menorah that just looks like a Chanukah menorah.
Shyli: Some toys. Lots of toys.
Leanna: Lots of gold. With chocolate inside. And tzedoko.
The Mishkan had a very holy section in which the Aron rested. The Kindergarten Wise Ones know that on top of the Aron were two Keruvim-angels made of gold. When the Jewish People were kind to each other, they faced each other. If the Jewish were not kind they would face away from each other. The Yellow Room Friends know they are the ones to make choices as to how they treat their friends. Here’s the song they sing:
Song:
https://youtu.be/wuh-gl498-c
22:38
Shalom is peace
And Shalom’s the way
A Rodef Shalom (pursuer of peace) seeks peace every day
He always is quick to forget and forgive
And that’s the way Hashem wants us to live.
Shabbat Shalom!
Morah Perline
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