Look at all the things we can do!

The children enjoy hearing their favorite songs on the cd player. This circle time includes movement to music as well as hand and body motions we apply to words of a song. Each animal in our Old McDonald Farm song has a body gesture that the children are beginning to remember and use when they are not laughing at Morah acting like a duck.

The children are acting out making and eating chicken soup in our play kitchen. They are using words like "table cloth" and "more?".

The children are learning to build a tower using legos and are using words and phrases to describe what they are doing - "wow this is tall", "fall down", "stay there", and "awesome".

The children enjoying pushing the foot pedal and seeing how they can turn water on and off. They love the feel of the water on their arms. They are learning to roll up their sleeves before they begin playing at the sink.

The children are listening to a story during library circle time. The children will now pull out their favorite books and bring them to Morah to read. The children sit and listen to several stories before snack, after lunch and anytime in between. During center time many of the children will go to the library and look at the pictures in a book and recite the words they heard and memorized.

Thanksgiving

The children have been jumping in the leaves and were getting excited about the next Holiday -Thanksgiving! To initiate appreciation, we began discussing with the children how they have such wonderful lunches packed for them every day for snack and lunch.

The children enjoy their lunch time together and love to find their favorite food packed in their lunch box. The children began naming each of their snacks and we reminded the children to say "Thank You" to their parents for packing such yummy foods. We practiced singing songs about being thankful for our food, families and friends.

In preparation for the preschool Thanksgiving feast, the children practiced their gluing skills to decorate their place settings with a spoon, fork and plate. We used the place settings to create a colorful Thanksgiving mural to decorate the room for the Feast.


The children who all must help bake at home, worked patiently with Morah to help make the cornbread for the feast. Every child took a turn to add an ingredient and stir the mix. The children are learning their shapes so we decided to cut the cornbread into squares for the feast.

On the morning of our Thanksgiving Feast, the children enjoyed playing in a big new ship. We called the ship "the Mayflower"!

The children sang our "Thank You" song along with the rest of the preschool in one large "circle time". It was such a thrill for the children to see Mommies and Daddies in the big playroom. We all sat down and after giving thanks, enjoyed our corn bread along with all the delicious foods made by the children from the different classes. What a feast, and how wonderful to enjoy it with both families and morahs together at the table.

"Red, Yellow, Orange and Brown.

All the leaves come falling down! "

The children in the Young Toddlers classroom enjoyed exploring the season of fall! We used the colors of the leaves to paint our brown fall bags. We used our fall bags to collect the leaves and bring them into the classroom to see and feel. We painted leaves on our class tree and drew with colored pencils using red, yellow, orange and brown. We sang our fall tree songs and had fun going through the motion of raking the leaves into a pile and jumping in!

Making New Friends

The children began the year already familiar with each other but after a few weeks, they have begun to form nice relationships with each other. It warms a Morah's heart to see a young child bring over two toys to another child -one for his new friend and one for himself to initiate joining in play. Many times I will hear one of the children say "Thank You" to a new friend. There are days when a child enters the room in the morning and they are greeted by name with joyous cries from their classmates. The children move together around the room at times and other times enjoy exploring with one or two friends by their side.

Discovering our new Classroom

The children are discovering their new classroom. We enjoy using our hands and fingers during table activities such as coloring, working with playdough and making challah bread. The children engage in dramatic play in the house area and have fun playing with cars, and various building toys in the rug area. The children seem to travel around the room together as a group at times. When one child moves over to the play gym to climb and crawl through the tunnel and slide down the slide, they all go over and suddenly I hear them all laughing with each other.

Working Together!







The children are learning to work together by sharing space, crayons, toys and learning to wait for their turn on the slide or washing their hands at the sink. We are learning to use gentle hands and kind words when we play and work together.

Enjoying Every Day!











The children enjoy every day in the Young Toddlers Class. Shabbat is the favorite day of all. We make the challah bread, drink the Kiddush and have a Shabbat party. We love to sing Shabbat songs together and clap our hands when we sing Shabbot Shalom.


Getting Ready for the Holidays!

The children dress up and prepared the table for Rosh Hashanah. We dipped the apples in the honey and tasted how sweet. We sang a song for a Happy New Year.