Israel Birthday Party and Clothesline

For Israel's Birthday we made cupcakes! Every friend got a turn adding an ingredient to our mixture.

 Kitah Alef was so excited to make special cupcakes for Israel's Birthday. We listened to Israeli music while making the mixture.

 When everything was all mixed up we poured the batter into the cupcake molds and put them in the oven. When the cupcakes were done we added a special decoration with blue food coloring. Morah: "That's a Magen David." Kitah Alef: "Magen David!"

 The Magen David melted a little in the process, but it was still very delicious.

 This week we had a clothesline running diagonally through the classroom. The children were able to take clothespins and put them on the line or hang objects from it. This was a great way to develop fine motor and pre-writing skills. Kitah Alef really enjoyed having the clothesline low enough so they could reach it and use it in many different ways. We hung a sheer material on it and it became a little tent at some point.

Earth Day 2015 in KDH

Earth Day was marked in KDH by taking lots of recyclables that we collected, putting them out for the children to create......      

  

Mia's bird's nest and bird

 Amitai's tree and squirrel home

Bryna and Mina's house

Mia's doll bed and house. Eli's satellite

Perly's airplane to travel around the world

Cassidy's drum and drum sticks

Cassidy's shakers, drum and guitar

Sholom and Luba' s rabbit home

Motty's car wash

Laylah's birdhouse

Adaya's jewelry box

Ziva's rocketship. Mia's birdhouse. Kemp's rocket ship.

Josie's rocket ship

Libi's tree

During circle time we read about earth day and discussed our responsbility to take care of the earth and its resources. The children told us that they do not waste things.  They do not throw out their dirty laundry at night. They put them in the wash!!

Spring in Kitah Gimmel

We are back! Kitah gimmel children came on Monday filled with wonderful stories of their Pesach. Sharing their special holiday box, singing ma nishtana, finding the Afikomen and eating lots of matzah. 

We celebrated the season of spring this week. We went to say hello to our Figgie tree and  were so pleasantly surprised to see so many leaves, different sizes, growing on him.  When we left for Pesach he only had a few little green sprouts.  How did this happen?  What will happen next?  

Our observations:

Meital:  ‘Yeah Figgie!”

Miki:  “So many leaves!  And look a ladybug!”

Reyn:  “He needs a rainbow!”

Jules: “I wonder if the bugs like to land on the leaves”

Jayme: “The leaves are nice”

Dovid “I can make a tree lego!”

Ilan: “So pretty!”

Tirza: “ I like touching it!”

Rikki: “It must be Hashem!”

Freeda: “The butterflies are coming!”

Lewis: “ His brother over there is not growing like Figgie”

Jules “You're growing Figgie!”

Chana: “Figgie is growing!”

Elijah: “Love you Figgie!”

We spent time looking and examining closely our Figgie during the week (despite all the rain) and we are keeping a record of growth too.  The yeladim decided they wanted to ‘redraw’ him since last time we did it was winter and he looks very different now. 

“We love you Figgie!” we started singing and sang throughout most of the day.  What a wonderful surprise to see on our first days back !

Where is the bunny?

 We spent the first week back preparing for a very special addition to Kitah Alef. We talked about rabbits, made paintings inspired by bunnies, read books about bunnies and other furry animals.

 We asked the children what we might need for our new bunny. Caleb: "We need seeds!" Morah: "Where will it live?" Sammy: "On top of the slide." Tehila: "Gam Ani Roza!" (I also want (a bunny))

 What will the bunny eat? Ezra: "Seeds, Strawberries." Sammy: "Blueberries!" What should we name it? Caleb: "Hops." We have yet to decide on a name for bunny, but hopefully that will happen next week.

 Then, finally, bunny came to class! The children were so excited. Kitah Bet came to see what all the fuss was about. Evan's Dad took the bunny carefully out of its cage. The children got to pet it. Morah: "We have to be very gentle with our bunny, we don't want to hurt it."

 Everyone wanted to hold bunny. It was a little scary at first. Annabelle: "Whats bunny doing?"
Ezra: "He is eating my shoe!"

 We will have a sign-up sheet for families who want to take the bunny home for the weekend. Also, we would like to welcome Maddy to our class. She joined Kitah Alef this week and we are thrilled to have a new friend in class. Shabbat Shalom!