Painted Pot and more fun!

Dear Kindergarten Families,

We had a fun week in Kindergarten! The children had a great time painting our kiddush cups at Painted Pot yesterday! As a special treat, we also went to play at Carroll Park in the morning and it was such a joy to see the children play in the sunshine! Big THANK YOU to all the parents who helped us with the trip: Lana, Corinne, Michelle, Sara and Hila!

In Math, we have continued to learn about parts of a whole. We practiced using a number line to figure out how many more we need to get to 10 or 15: “I have 8, how many do I need to get to 10? to 15?” We were very excited to have finished our third math workbook! Next week, we will begin our final workbook for the year with a unit on Measuring!

In English Language Arts, we continued learning about silent -e. We learned the sound and motion for long /o/ (as in spoke) and practiced reading and matching words with silent e to their pictures.

In Writing, we began our Poetry unit. We have had lots of fun reading each other’s favorite poems and have begun to illustrate some of them for our books. We will be making a few class poetry books: “Down by the Bay,” “Brown Bear, Brown Bear,” and more. The children will also learn to write some short poems starting next week.

In Social Studies, we continued our City Block Unit. As a class, we decided to study the subway and the grocery store. We created a chart with all the things we think we know about our chosen places and the ideas we want to learn more about. We then started exploring the things we know about the subway and grocery store through building, dress up, and art.

In Science, we continued our unit Exploring Plants and Animals. We observed alfalfa seeds, pea seeds, and lima beans. We made predictions about what we think they will look like when they grow, and then we got to plant them! We will continue to make observations as we watch our plants grow!

Hebrew and Judaics

This week we started preparing for the Kabbalat Shabbat celebration by singing and acting the creation of the world and Shabbat. The children continued decorating their Shabbat boxes. On Thursday we went to Painted Pot and made our own Kiddush cups.

We continued  counting the Omer (Sfirat Haomer) which is the counting of the 49 days between Passover and the holiday of Shavuot. We sang the song “hineni muchan umezuman” before counting. We read the book “The Shabbat Box” and “Funny Friday” as well as “Chatul Gadol Chatul Katan” and “Pishpesh Mitlabesh” by Ami Rubinger.

In addition, the children continued presenting their families in Hebrew. Every week some kids show family pictures using the phrases “Yesh li Ima , Korim la ___” , or Yesh li Abba, korim lo____” ( I have a mother her name is___, or I have a father his name is_____).

We also  reviewed the different animal vocabulary and created a “gan chayot” (a zoo) using the following vocabulary: aryeh- lion, kelev- dog , pil- elefant, arnav- rabbit, chatul- cat, dag- fish, giraffe- girafa, tzav- turtle , barvaz-duck.

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All of you have received Permission Forms for Lag B’Omer via e-mail with team colors for our class.

Here are the teams:

Team Colors	Red	Blue	Green	Yellow
Teachers	Rachel	Ilana	Irit	Regina
Participants	Isaiah	Natan	Asher	Wren
	Caleb	Sacha	Ezra	Zsuzsanna
	Yahli	Marshall	Julian	Aviv
	Iddo	Harry	Alona	Ella
	Yardena	Abby	Noga	Henry
	Milah	Fortune	Georgie	Bryce
	Noa	Galia	Orly	Noah
		Almah

 

Shabbat Shalom,

Rachel, Regina, Irit, and Ilana

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Noga’s Aunt was our Mystery Guest and taught us about fun Israeli games!

We celebrated the Earth Day with a Publishing Party of our books about helping Earth

Planting with 3rd graders! Our school yard looks beautiful!

Sunny days = reading outside!

Counting 100 jewels!

Experimenting with colors

Exploring the subway and grocery store in Social Studies

Observing, predicting and planting in Science class

Painting our Kiddush Cups at Painted Pot!

Future scientists and explorers: “What if you mix it this way?”

 

Art with Iviva:

We are already preparing for our special, May Kabbalat Shabbat, learning how to write Shabbat in Hebrew, decorating challah covers, and making candle holders.