Hi Room C Parents,
We have had a busy, rainy week of exciting indoor activities. We painted with frogs, enjoyed Passover story time and played with our new water filled light table blocks. Our most favorite was playing with the parachute while staying dry inside. Your children were all hard at work making their beautiful Passover place mats and matzah covers. They used frogs to stamp the paint on their mats and decorated the matzah covers with fabric markers. We loved having all of you in our classroom to share in our Passover story and Seder. We hope you enjoyed it too. After hearing the story and learning all the Passover songs over the last couple of weeks we hope they sing them for you at your upcoming seders. We ended the week by making chocolate chip Hallah and a wonderful time at the sanctuary for our special Passover services on Shabbat. The children loved singing along with Ditza! We hope you all have a fun and restful spring break and we will see you all back at school on April 9th. Shabbat Shalom, Anita and Elena ick here to edit.
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Dear Room C Parents,
Here in Room C, it’s been all about Passover this week. As we explore the themes of this very important holiday, we made sure to have lots fun along the way. With the help of felt stories, and songs we told the story of Passover and how the Jewish people had to work so hard for King Pharaoh, who was not a very kind man. He learned an important lesson though, when frogs were sent to jump all over him in his bed! We did lots of singing, dressed up as frogs, made matzah pizza and created matzah art with paper, brown paint and forks to make dots. The children have had lots of opportunities to participate in fine motor, art, sensory and early literacy activities that all tie in to Passover and have had tons of fun in the process. We ended our week on a sweet note with Shabbat in the chapel- the children did an awesome job and really enjoyed the services listening, singing and clapping along. All in all, it’s been a busy and productive week and we’re looking forward to more Passover projects next week. We also wanted to thank each of you, for coming in to sit down with us last week. We truly enjoyed the conferences and hope that you ditd too. In the hurried moments of pick up and drop off we don’t always get to connect and share so it was very nice to have the space to do so. Please let us know if you have any questions or thoughts that came up for you later, we can always follow up by phone, email or talk with you Next week is our final week before spring break and we will celebrate Passover with our Classroom Seder on Wednesday, March 21st at 10:45 am. We invite you all to join us for a what’s sure to be a memorable event. We will share the Haggadah, blessings and of course all of the traditional foods. We hope you all can make it! Shabbat Shalom and have a wonderful weekend! Anita & Elena **REMINDERS** Spring Break is March 26- April 7 with classes resuming on April 9th Please remember to sign up to bring something for our classroom Seder if you haven’t done so yet (sign up sheet is on top of cubbies) Dear Room C Families,
It was a very special week here in room C. With the excitement of Purim behind us we are now shifting our focus to Passover. We introduced all the characters in the story, telling a very simplified version of the story with the help of some of our favorite Passover songs: “Baby Moses in the Basket”, “The Frog Song” “Bang your Hammer” and “Dayanu”. The children are already clapping along and getting very engaged. We will continue the fun and learning next week with crafts; felt board stories and more singing. As you all know, parent teacher conferences are approaching! We are looking forward to sitting down with each of you next week to talk about your children and all of the progress they’ve made since their first days of school. In other, exciting news, we went to Shabbat services for the first time! The children did a fabulous job of walking to the temple and back and sitting quietly as they listened to Ditza and Rabbi Josh. They had a wonderful time and we are look forward to many more fun excursions each Friday. Shabbat Shalom and have a wonderful weekend, Elena & Anita **REMINDERS** Early dismissal Tuesday of next week (3/13) at noon and no classes the following Wednesday (3/14) due to parent teacher conferences Dear Room C Families,
It has been another week of learning and fun as we focused on Purim. Your children have been hard at work making groggers to shake whenever they hear Haman's name, making crowns, baking hamantashen and dressing up as kings and queens, super heroes and mice. The children have been so engaged in the story of Purim, and they have enjoyed learning the songs associated with the holiday. Baking is a wonderful activity that incorporates so many aspects of our curriculum--science, math and sensory experiences. We measured, mixed, rolled and pinched the dough to make hamentashen, and then the children chose whether to fill their cookie with chocolate chips or jelly. We loved seeing so many costumes and the joy of the holiday transform our everyday space in classroom C. We have truly enjoyed seeing your children so excited to learn with us on their first Purim in school. Love Anita and Elena REMINDERS Tot Shabbat this Saturday, 3/3 at 10 AM in Katz Family Pavilion 3/13 NOON Dismissal- Parent Teacher Conferences 3/14 NO SCHOOL- Parent Teacher Conferences |