Shabbat Shalom, Room 7!
This week, we prepared for and celebrated our 100th day in school. Leading up to this special event, we noticed that the children have actively engaged in numeric activities through counting bundles of tens and ones, beginning to write simple addition equations, and sorting groups of objects into fives and tens to aid in their counting skills. “Let’s count these teddybears to make 100,” one child offered. “We can make a red pile of bears and a blue pile,” another suggested. The children worked independently and collaboratively to build small mounds of bears and then count them by placing them in rows in groups of ten. The children also explored counting out the natural items gathered in the baskets they brought back from home. “I have 3 pinecones and 4 flowers!” remarked one child. “Look at the leaves I brought! There are 8 of them!” another child exclaimed. Together, the children assembled a beautiful display using their nature items to create a large number, “100.” Through this exploration, we have realized that the children have a greater interest in expanding their math skills, so we have set up centers to include math equations where the children fill in the numbers to add and solve them, and we posted a number line to serve as a guide while the children work. Our week finished with a wonderful “Generations Day” experience. A special guest of each child accompanied the class through Friday morning’s events, from open centers and challah making, to our Morning Meeting, our class Shabbat service and a trip to the Sanctuary. During our open centers, we invited the children and their guests to fill decorated bags with shampoo, toothpaste, bar soap and other toiletries that our families donated to benefit the LA Family Housing organization. The Mitzvah project was a huge success, and the children listened to the story, “Maddi’s Fridge,” which helped them to understand the important work they were doing to help those who are less fortunate in our community. Vertical Learning At the art center, the children explored the nature materials from home, using magnifying glasses, and they enjoyed comparing and contrasting what they brought with one another. At the math center, the children used large dice and colored blocks and strips of paper to write equations. At the literacy center, the children worked with magnetic upper and lowercase letters, writing their first and last names and spelling out some of our Jolly Phonics words.
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