We hope that everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving holiday. Now that we have said good-bye to Thanksgiving we are beginning to welcome the Festival of Lights. We are having a great time joining the friends in room 23 to listen to the Hanukkah story and sing along to the songs. The children have been busy this week starting to create a giant Hanukkiah for our board.
Many of the children are enjoying building with the Magnetic Tiles. They are an open-ended construction toy that really gets the children thinking. Magnetic Tiles come in various colors in the shapes of squares and triangles. They have magnets and attract on all sides. They are well-sized for the child's hands and offer hands-on learning. Magnetic Tiles offer children the opportunity to use and develop a whole range of skills: building two and three-dimensional shapes, visualizing three-dimensional creations, shape recognition, building and construction skills, patterning skills, sorting and stacking, learning about symmetry, learning about mathematical and spatial relationships, persistence, problem solving, creativity, hand-eye coordination, concentration, understanding of magnetic principals, and enhances cognitive processes. The children can build something from their imaginations, they can also recreate an image or copy an object someone else has made. The colors, translucency, and magnets allow children to build and create in ways they can't with standard building blocks. We had a lovely morning Thursday celebrating Hannah’s birthday. The children really enjoyed the mini cupcakes she brought. We enjoyed celebrating Shabbat with Bianca and her family on Friday. During Temple we got to hear a story from Rabbi Josh. After Temple we walked over to the Farmer’s Market picked out a fruit tray, played on the Witzman Woods yard then went back to class ate lunch and enjoyed our fruit from the Farmer’s Market all together. Shabbat Shalom T & T Reminders Monday, November 27, 2017 through Wedneday, December 13, 2017 – LIGHT UP LITERACY - Light Up Literacy transform the lives of Guatemalan children by giving them the gift of reading. $10 buys 2 books/$25 buys 5 for these children and, in return, Wise School students will receive a hand-woven friendship bracelet as a token of appreciation.
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