blue continued and Circles

This week we introduced our first shape - The circle. At circle time Morah gave us each a circle shape to hold.

 We then made circle collages with big and small BLUE circle shapes:)

We also reviewed more of the color BLUE. We took a bucket with Blue water to circle time and put different objects inside to see which would float (to the top) and which would sink (to the bottom).

We were so excited and fascinated to see if the predictions that we made of what would happen to which object were correct or not.

We used really fun paint rollers to paint on our blue papers!

Some of the "rollers" made really cool designs.

We had so much fun in the sensory/sand table using all the new shovels, spades and buckets!

                                                                                                                         

Happy Birthday Nir!

We celebrated another birthday in our classroom this week. Happy Birthday Nir!

Thank you for the new beautiful toy you donated to our classroom in honor of Nir's birthday

We made delicious chocolate cupcakes.

We made icing for the cupcakes

Michael mixing the icing

Nir putting on the sprinkles

We also made blue icing for some of the cupcakes

Nir put tzedakah in the tzedaka box

Dalia giving tzedakah

Nir gave a penny to all his friends to put into the tzedaka box

We all chose musical instruments and sang some of our favorite songs

Michelle was so happy to shake her instrumens

We danced in a circle with Nir while we sang Happy Birthday

"all about me"

This week we continued our "all about me " unit. 

• We spoke about our families how much they love us and how much we love them. We talked about who is in our family. We have Mamas, Papas, Grandparents, and some of us have sisters or brothers. We said how much we love them and they love us. We sang a special song about this. These are the words: "This is my family, I love them all and they love me... x2".
• Morah showed us some baby pictures and we spoke about how we used to be sooo small and now we are so big. we discussed the things that we could do when we were small. eg crawl etc and now that we're big we can do so much more!
• We traced our bodies on paper , colored and cut out pictures of body parts.
• We painted our hands to show how big they are . wow! what fun! Our morah laminated them for us with a beautiful poem so you can hang them on the wall and see how much we grow.
• We are working on our social skills. We met two puppet friends, Benny and Bina. We saw that Benny wanted Bina's ball. We learned that good friends ask for turns. "Please can I have it?" and good friends want to share. So we answer with a "Yes!" or "Soon." Then our friend says "Thank you."
• We love to sing the song head shoulders knees and toes....we know almost all the words and all the actions.

Rainbows! Colors!
We started to sing our rainbow song: red and orange green and blue, shiny yellow and purple too, all the colors that we know, live up in the rainbow. 
We made a book of all the colors of the rainbow during circle time, and made our own rainbow.
We painted with an assortment of colors to make rainbow collages on our papers. They looked so beautiful.

Happy Birthday Aaron!

Thank you so much Aron for the beautiful gifts of crayons and coloring books that you gave us!!