Monday, May 17, 2010

Parent Teacher Interviews

An email has been sent out about Parent Teacher Interviews that will be taking place Wednesday May 26, from 1:15 to 4:30. If you have not booked a fifteen minute slot yet, please let me know as soon as possible. Have a Happy Shavous!

Bikurim Parade!






We each brought beautiful baskets of fruit for Yad Aharon. We proudly marched with our fruit and gave them to the representatives who were there to collect it. We are sure we've helped so many people have a happier and tastier shavous!

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Standing Proudly in our "Midbar" formation!

Decorating our Flags


Parshas Bamidbar

While learning about Parshas Bamidar, we discussed how the yidden rested. There were three camps, the inner camp had the mishkan, the second camp Moshe Aaron and the Cohanim and Leviim, and the outer camp the rest of Bnei Yisrael. There were three Shevatim on each side. For each side there was a flag representing the three shvatim. Morah divided us up into the different camps and we each designed our flag with the colors that represented our three shevatim.
Of course this lead us to the discussion of the World Cup and the flags that each country has. This of course led us into the discussion of what a COUNTRY is - so we explored the concepts of PLANETS, CONTINENTS, COUNTRIES, CITIES, STREETS AND ADDRESSES. These are all topics that we hope to master and understand over the next few weeks! The children who know their addresses and their suburbs were so excited to share them with us!

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Shavous Projects





We worked very dilligently on our shavous vase canvases to be sure that they would come out perfect! We have been working with the skills and patience of true artists, being careful to color neatly and practice staying in the lines.

Cricket!


Thank you Liron for bringing in your cricket set- we were so excited to play!

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Har Sinai


Trying to make Matan Torah a more hands on experience, the boys ( on their own initiative!) built a Har Sinai in the sand box while sitting around it as the yidden who were on the outskirts of the mountain receiving the Torah!

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Math Skills

Along with our Math station (for more info and pics check the earlier posts on the blog!), we've begun advancing our math skills in different areas. To help us learn how to draw the numbers correctly we've been using different materials to make it more tactile for us. We've made the shapes of the numbers out of our bodies, we counted out the correct number from different things around the classroom and traced the numbers and drew them on our own in our books.
For sums, Morah put us into pairs. Then, we were given a number. We had to work out two numbers that when added equaled the number Morah said. We then collected the correct amount of items to make a visual math equation!
We made different math equations with beans and beads. We were told a number and had to quickly make a math equation using our beans. We learned a lot, and got to have some fun too!

Mother's Day!




We've been hard at work on a special Mother's Day gift! All the yeladim kept expressing how much they love their mommies and want their gift to be beautiful!

Spacial and Visual Skills

We've been concentrating on our spacial skills by working on our peg boards copying over the patterns that we are given. We have all mastered the straight lined patterns and are now working on more difficult patterns, such as diagonal lines and different shapes.

Ahavas Yisroel cards


In honor of Lag Ba'omer, we went around the tables and each took a turn decorating a picture for our friends. We are all such good friends and add such special things to our class- and this is one way that we want to show it!