This week the children enjoyed making purple playdough and baking blueberry muffins. We also spent some time feeding the hungry rabbit, monkey, and doggy. The children enjoyed matching up different color shape buttons to their pictures. Many of the children explored different mediums for drawing and coloring beautiful works of art and spent some time playing house in the housekeeping area and working at the office center.
On Monday when the children helped make playdough they worked on concepts of volume and measurement as well as an understanding of hot and cold. While making the playdough we had to use very hot water, which the teacher added in. Once the playdough cooled off the children enjoyed playing with it using just their hands allowing them to explore the concepts length and height by rolling out the dough then after a little while the children brought out the cookie cutters which gave them an opportunity to learn about negative space. On Tuesday and Wednesday the children loved feeding the monkey, doggy, and rabbit. By feeding the various animals the children worked on developing their eye-hand coordination as well as their fine motor skills. They even got a little lesson in patience due to the fact that there were only three options. Many of the children spent time coloring at the large art table with crayons. Thursday the children all worked together to make blueberry muffins. They worked hard measuring out ingredients which gives them an awareness of the math concept of a whole to a part. Most of the children visited the office center, making important phone calls and typing out documents. Others spent some time matching up the different colored shape buttons to their pictures giving them a better understanding of shape, size, and color. Some of the children even spent some time coloring big beautiful pictures with various size markers. Friday we enjoyed a lovely Shabbat with Avital and her family. We started out the morning with a Shabbat story about Joseph and his overcoat, we made challah then enjoyed a special Shabbat treat that Avital brought. Shabbat Shalom T & T Reminders - Picture Day Wednesday February 1, 2017 at 11:15 am - Fathers/Grandfathers Shabbat February 10, 2017
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