Dear Ulpanon Bet Parents,
We started our week with the book, Ha’Etz Hanadiv (The Giving Tree), by Shel Silverstein. The children expanded their Tu B’Shevat vocabulary, while sharing their own thoughts about what trees give us: chamtzan (oxygen), rehitim (furniture), motzarei niyar (paper products), prachim (blossoms/flowers), tzel (shade), payrot (fruit), and noy (decoration). We then asked them what the tree needs to grow, ma ha’etz tzarich? We learned that the tree needs: Zra’im (seeds), adamah (soil) to plant the seeds, lots of water and rain, avir (air), and shemesh or (sunlight). This week, the children used a different creative process for their Shkaydiot - without the use of scissors; they ripped and tore different types of paper, and had a blast building their trunks, branches, leaves and flowers for their individual trees. We started our Lima bean sprouting experiment in class. The children placed dried and soaked Lima beans in plastic bags with wet cotton balls and paper towels, allowing room for air to come in. We hung the bags on our windows for sunlight, and the children discussed their predictions for how long it would take for the beans to sprout shorashim (sprouts), and that “maybe sometimes, the beans don’t sprout.” We will check the beans often to record their progress. Once the lima beans sprout, they can be transplanted to a garden or flower pot. The children took special care with their decorated pots to plant for Tu B’Shevat. They packed soil loosely in the pots, made holes with their fingers, and dropped in seeds for flowers, carrots, tomatoes, and garden beans. These plant seedlings will go home with the children in the next weeks, where they will water and care for the plants and report back to their friends on their progress. Rabbi Sari spoke to the Pre-K classes about the wonders of the Tu B’Shevat holiday. She told a story called How to Bless a Tree. In the story, a travel-weary woman seeks comfort in a new town and finds a tree who gives so much more. As she rests in the tree’s shade against the trunk, cools down and drinks from the leaves, and eats from the many figs that fall on her, she worries how she can possibly give something back to the tree that has it all. She finally realizes as she hugged the tree, that she can bless the tree with a blessing for all the little seedlings around it to grow up to be just like the fig tree. Rabbi Sari emphasized the importance of always finding something to be thankful for and to say a blessing from the heart. We can think about the trees and bless them for all they give us. During Music with Ditza, the children listened to sounds and songs of winter. They sang a song about the Lollipop Tree who turned into an Ice Cream Tree. The children sang Tu B’Shevat and nature songs and also had fun singing Artik Menta, Shokolad Banana, a popular Israeli children’s song about different flavors of popsicles. In P.E. with Coach Danny, the children had a blast revisiting the game of Kickball that they learned 2 weeks ago, with the rolling team kids and cone kids. The kids had a fabulous time practicing their team strategies. Coach Danny asked them to describe the skills they were working on in the game, and the children mentioned their rolling, jumping, aiming, kicking and running skills. They noted that they also enjoyed rounding the bases and cheering their friends to home base. During library time this week, Sebastian chose the books: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, A Tree is Nice, by Janice May Udry, and Dear Tree, by Doba Rivka Weber. Thank you to Sharona Olshansky for reading to us! Reminders:
Thank you to Liel Araghi and family for helping us usher in Shabbat. Shabbat Shalom! Shoshi and Meirav
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