Friday, August 27, 2021

 BH

Dear Parents,

 

The Kindergarteners learned about the bee and how it makes honey for us for the Rosh Hashana table. They know that the bee itself is not kosher but the honey is. The honey doesn’t come from the bee’s body itself. The bee simply takes the pollen and brings it to the beehive to make honey. The Kindergarten Honey Tasters tasted honey that came from different flowers: Wildflower, Multiflower, Clover, and Raw honey. After tasting the different honeys the Kindergarteners conducted a survey to see which they liked best:

 

Jacob: Wildflower

Leah: Wildflower

Leanna: Clover

Mae: Wildflower

Natan: Clover. “That’s a win.”

Angie: Wildflower

Ronan: Raw honey

 

Song:

Buzzy the Bee

One day I saw a little bee

It flew from flower to flower

Then someone turned on the hose

And the bee got quite a shower

Buzz Buzz Buzz Buzz 2 x

 

Buzzy the Bee didn’t seem to mind

She flew fast as she was able

To make the honey that we need

For the Rosh Hashana table

 

The Yellow Room finished their Shana Tova cards with personal wishes for their grandparents, sounding out the words as they wrote.

 

Creating a Rosh Hashana napkin ring required many steps but the end product is sure to beautify their Rosh Hashana table. They painted and drew and glued and threaded and voila! – a most original napkin holder!

 

The Kindergarten is creating their own machzor (special ‘Siddur’ for Rosh Hashana) which highlights the main points of Rosh Hashana: the sounds of the Shofar, crowning Hashem our King, and a personal new year resolution.

 

Shabbat Shalom!

Morah Perline

 



Friday, August 20, 2021

First Week in the Yellow Room

 

 

Dear Parents,

Welcome to a fantastic fun year of learning in the Yellow Room! In the very first week the Yellow Room Friends have already dived right in to learning reviewing the Alef Beis letters and reinforcing the letters they may have forgotten or not learned yet. They have explored the Alef Beis letters for the word Shofar utilizing kinetic moon sand to shape the letters. The Yellow Room Whizzes will bring home the paper they used to write the letters used to spell Shofar. They have been exploring sounds and, after listening to several sounds decided that the Shofar sound does not sound like a guitar. The Shofar sound does not sound like a piano. The Shofar sound sounds like crying, sometimes like a baby crying. Thank you, Rabbi Deitsch, for coming in to the Yellow Room to blow the Shofar for the Yellow Room Friends. The Kindergarten is already familiar with the shofar sounds. Ask your child what sound the Tekiya, Shevarim and Teruah sounds are of the Shofar. This diagram can help:

 

Tekiya _________________

 

Shevarim ____    ____    ____

 

Teruah __  __  __  __  __  __  __  __  __

 

 

The Yellow Room Friends shared their summer experiences:

 

Angie: I went to my Mexico house. I went swimming in the pool and the ocean.

 

Natan: I liked going to my Grandma’s because she has my dog’s sister. I went to Chuckie Cheese with Leanna and Mia.

 

Leah: I went to Mexico and went inside the ocean. When you open your eyes in the water, they burn. And when you lick the water, it’s salty. There’s fishies. I wanted there to be dolphins but they weren’t there. I liked the beautiful house there and slept there for five days.

 

Leanna: I went to New Mexico on summer. We were sleeping and we heard sirens and there was a tornado. We had to go in the basement. The next morning we saw a rainbow. We went to the ocean and I dived down and saw a shark. It was my first time being down there.

 

Mae: I liked going to the playgrounds. I liked the swings. We went in the pool in the backyard. We had play toy fishes in the pool Mommy and Abba got them. They swam underwater.

 

Jacob: I went to the train park. Brewster got scared of the bug and it came to the train park.

 

Ronan: I got to meet my friends at the park. Out of my neighborhood, the park has swings and I played army guys with my friends.

 

Naveed: I went to my pool a bunch, a bunch, a bunch of times, like 1000 times. My favorite part of summer was also summer camp in school. In my sister’s school.

 

 

Show and Tell
Your child is welcome to bring one item from home for Show and Tell on his/her day. Show and Tell is an opportunity for your child to better develop confidence and poise in public speaking.

 

Monday: Naveed and Leanna

Tuesday: Leah and Ronan

Wednesday: Jacob and Mae

Thursday: Angie and Davis

 

Mitzva Notes

Every day the children enjoy sharing a Mitzva they have done and fill their Mitzva buckets with the notes. Please send a Mitzva note every day with your child. I have enclosed a plastic packet with lots of papers to start you off in your child’s backpack, most probably in the small outside pocket.  If you need a refill, please let me know.

 

Supply items missing:

Please note: Your child will have brought home a supply list in his/her backpack with items noted still to be sent in to school. Thank you so much!

 

Shabbat Shalom!

Morah Perline

Friday, April 13, 2018

Understanding More and More!

Anyone would agree with me that 1 year olds are so much fun! If we are in-tune with them, we’re able to understand their wants. Although at this age they’re obviously unable to talk, they are good communicators. From pointing their finger to cute facial expressions. They are communicating with us. Interacting with them is very crucial in their language development .

We are working on giving commands. For now, it may seem meaningless chatter but they’re registering it all. We use commands like: “give me the ball please” while extending out my hand. Along with many others. The key to language acquisition is repetition! Using clear, descriptive language over and over.

This week, we brought cars into the classroom with sounds and sirens. We played a game of rolling the car back and forth. Although they’re not fully able to roll the car back to me, they made an attempt. This teaches them cause-and-effect.

For our sensory activity this week, we mashed a banana in a bag. We added the colors blue and red . We talked about how “mushy and soft” it felt. We discovered other things that are red and blue in the room. 

Have you ever danced while reading? Give it a try, it’s fun! As we read “The Wheels on the Bus” we played the tambourine. We shook our body to the tune of the song! 

Books: Wheels on the Bus
                Dear Zoo
                Ten Apples Up On Top

Songs: The Wheels on the Bus ðŸšŒ 
                Incy Wincy Spider  ðŸ•· 
                
                 
Shabbat Shalom, 
Morah Anna

Friday, March 23, 2018

This week we found ourselves in a sticky situation. That’s right, Morah Anna took out some sticky contact paper and we walked all over it on our bare feet! This helped with our sensory awareness as well as strengthening our leg muscles, which by the way, continue to get stronger. We have grown from holding on to Morah’s entire hand to only one finger! Our steps are more stable now.

Our finger muscles got a workout as well. We worked hard to “unstick” small toys placed on the sticky paper.

We beat the heat as we went outdoors early in the morning. What could be better than feeling the morning dew on our feet? Then enjoying the grainy sand on our hands....and on our hair! As we have learned the phrase “arms up” we decided it was best to show morah how rapidly we’ve learned it- but with sand in our hands. Uh-oh .

Lastly, we created a new discovery bottle. Using only oil, food coloring, glitter, and water. We observe how the oil and water don’t mix. Next week, we will try the same method in ziploc bags which we’ll add to our collection of sensory bags.

Last, but certainly not least we’d like to thank the Elikan family for donating some wonderful books to CJP! We very much appreciate it!

Books: Beautiful Yetta
                The Wheels on the Bus
                 If Animals Kissed Goodnight

Shabbat shalom,
Morah Anna





Friday, March 16, 2018

Welcome back Ella! We surely missed having you with us last week.

These past two weeks were full of so much socialization. Not only did we enjoy morning snack and davening
with our peach friends but we also enjoyed the sun outdoors with our older peers. They love us, and we love all the attention we get from them. Some huddle around us and want to play. Some of the activities we enjoyed last week included bubble-nanza, tons and tons of bubbles . Our older friends took turns blowing bubbles as we followed and observed.  We also rode our trike around the dirt road and our feet felt refreshed on the cool moist grass.

This week, we worked on our own face magnet while we sang to “can you touch your nose...eyes..ears..mouth...tongue”. We are learning where the eyes, nose, and mouth go as we place them on a blank face.

Have you ever seen such a thing as throwing balls out of the mouth while rolling on the floor? Well we have. No, it’s not morah Anna. She wouldn’t go that far to entertain us. It’s Mr. Bucket!
Mr. Bucket rolls around while shooting colorful balls out of his mouth and we follow. There’s blue, red, green, and yellow ones too.  Admittedly though, we find that tasting the holey balls is much more exciting.

We are adding more to our “sensory collage” this week we added green rice, pink, and purple too. We love to feel the dry, grainy texture in our tiny hands.

On Thursday, we took a trip two doors down to our school library. We flipped through some books and picked out three age-appropriate books for our classroom. We have read and re-read the books we currently have in our class, so we’re looking forward to reading what we picked out.
*Parents: you’re more than welcome to bring in books from home as well. They’ll be returned at the end of the day.

Books: Good Night, Baby
               My Grandma and I
               The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Songs: “Can You Touch Your Nose”

Shabbat shalom, 
Morah Anna