How to make a box fort (featuring Extended Day.)

Do you have a box at home? Then start creating!

Make a box fort!

Grab a box.

Decorate it with your markers, stickers, and tape.

Cut doors and windows. Attach fabric for a curtain.

Make a cozy space with pillows, blankets, and stuffed animals.

Do you have more than one box?

Connect your boxes together to make a box compound.

Other Box Art options:

Make a box car.

Make a box rocket.

Have fun and share what you make!

Jessica.mcbee@icloud.com

We would love to post pictures of other IJP forts 

in our IJP Virtual Art and Extended Day photo album:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/1GiB8g272apjQ9BAA 

PKA's Caterpillars!

Our caterpillars arrived in their very own container with all the food they would need before changing into butterflies. We brought the container around so everyone could take a closer look. Some children noticed the caterpillars were crawling! Some said they were swinging!

 We checked on our caterpillars regularly and watched them grow bigger and fuzzier.

 When they had all attached to the lid of the container and created chrysalises around themselves, Morah Rena carefully opened the lid to show the class.

She placed them carefully into the butterfly house where they would sleep for a few weeks.

When they were ready, our butterflies emerged! One by one Morah Rena brought them outside to free them into the wild.

 Bye, bye, butterflies!

Cakes and Crowns--We Finish Up Experiencing Purim . . .

Cakes and Crowns

      We have busy afternoons. This  week, our Extended Day group had a fun time experiencing some crafts and cooking--all Purim related.

     We love drama.  Purim is the perfect time for story telling.  Today, a few of us  prepared our own silly Monster Puppets.  We can use our puppets for all kinds of stories.  We will continue with paper bag puppets next week.

      Purim is also the perfect time to hone our kitchen skills.  We baked brownies and created a Purim note.  We then placed the brownies in the front office with some tangerines--a quick and tasty Misholach Manot for the staff.

      We designed our own crowns, too.  We know about palaces, kings and queens.  Making our crowns assists us in developing and extending our awareness of Purim.

          Enjoy our photos--the Morahs love sharing the Extended Day adventures with you!

Shabbat Shalom,

The Extended Day Morahs 

       

                   

Music to Our Ears: KDH goes to the Symphony

KDH Trip to Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Tuesday morning, March 3rd, KDH came in with much excitement! Finally, the day of our field trip to the Symphony had arrived! We all came ready, with various ideas and hypotheses of what instruments we may see and hear. Everyone wore an IJP t-shirt, so we can all stay safe and stick together. We were ready! 

We played a fun, movement game called “Toega”, similar to Yoga before we left!

We all got buckled, safe and ready to go!

 

We are on our way! 

We all gathered in the lobby. Once everyone had arrived, we were shown to our seats in the Symphony. While we watched and waited so patiently for the hall to fill up, and the musicians to take their places, we observed them practicing before the show officially began. How cool! 

Finally, the Symphony began! We saw and heard violinists, pianists, and so many new instruments we had never seen or heard before.
 

KDH,  what did you like about the Orchestra?

Eli "All of the music"

Adom "the same as Yonah. The lion roar"

Sam "The thing that goes up"

Margot "The microphones"

Squirrel "All the instruments that went boom boom"

Erez "hearing the music"

Amiel "when the man was roaring like a lion"

Lily -the video message when she was sick at home

Parker "seeing the tuba. It was golden."

Avraham Chaim "when the person showed the picture and went on making animal sounds"
Leah "the girl who did the talking"

Leora "the story she told. She came to our school last year. The coo coo bird. the conductor. He was the leader"

Sela "the music and the girl who read the story"

Orli "seeing a golden tuba and listening to the girl act the story"

Yonah "I remember when the person was roaring like a lion"

Liav "the person making animal sounds"

Asher "the microphones hanging down and the person who went like this (waving arms) -the conductor"

Mason "the flute. The piano guy he was so funny"

The Very Hungry Caterpillar! KA

One of our favorite books in Kitah Alef is The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. We read it often during snack and lunchtime. The book goes through all the stages of a caterpillar. First, it's a tiny egg, then it turns into a caterpillar, then it goes into a chrysalis until it emerges as a butterfly!

We have our very own caterpillars in our classroom that we will observe daily for changes! During meal times, a Morah walks around holding the caterpillars for all the children to see!

"Look,  they are moving!" "A butterfly!" "I want to see it!" "I don't like bugs!" "Caterpillars!" We wrote down what the children said and hung it up on our bulletin board. The children enjoyed coming to the board throughout the day to see pictures of them!

Since we've been learning about the life cycle of caterpillars we decided to do an art project for each stage!

The children had the opportunity to make their own caterpillars! We used special pompoms with holes to thread pipe cleaners through to resemble caterpillars! Threading is a great fine motor skill for the children to practice.

We painted toilet paper rolls to make a chrysalis.

Abe putting his pom pom caterpillar in his toilet paper chrysalis while checking on the progress of our real life caterpillars! 

For our butterfly art, we used pipettes to squeeze watercolors on butterfly-shaped coffee filters.  The children enjoyed choosing different colors and practiced squeezing to draw color into the pipettes. Some children discovered that they could use the pipettes like markers! 

         

When they were dry, we strung our butterfly art across our classroom!

The children can't wait to see our caterpillars spin their chrysalises and emerge as butterflies. Participating in the caterpillars' life cycle is a tangible way for us to engage in a process, to follow a sequence of steps that organize themselves into beginning, middle and end. 

Shababt Shalom and happy almost spring!