As the children conclude the winter unit, they 

Fine Motor Skills:

Cutting snowflakes

After cutting so many white paper, Chloe decided to make a collage:

The children practice blowing through a straw to create heaps of "snow" on their tray. 

We compared all the snowflakes that children had made the previous week, and saw how each one was so beautiful and unique. The children then watched as we hung up their snowflakes, to transform our classroom into a winter wonderland. 

Book Response:

"Snowballs" by Lois Ehlert has different snow people made out of various creative items. After looking through the illustrations in the book, the friends invented their own snow characters on their own papers. 

Noa Mofaz proudly signs her name in her work:

Literacy Skill:

Here, the children used buttons and pipe cleaners to forms winter related words. 

After examining winter themed pictures, and noticing trees, and snow; the children added twigs, and cotton ball snowflakes to our winter scene in our classroom. 

Using droppers to color the snow. 

Pajama day was the highlight of our week. It was a cozy and warm day in our class. 

Our friend were so excited to find cocoa play dough in the sensory table, and were busy making cocoa, and coffee for each other, and their Mommies and Daddies. 

During the learning circle, each friend proudly presented their home toy, and their cozy pajamas to their friends.  

And what is a pajama party without hot cocoa...

...and a movie:

On Friday we celebrated Sam's third birthday. 

We would like to wish Sam to grow  healthy and happy, and continue to be a sweet, loving and sensitive boy, giving his family and friends much Nachas. 

We love you Sam!

It's been a really exciting and  busy week in Class Bet. 

Pre-literacy Skills: 

Tracing letters with shaving cream and paint.

Crystal art : 

After a science experiment in which we poured different dry ingredients onto blocks of ice in order to see what would happen to the ice. We Noticed how salt helps ice melt the fastest. We discussed that when the streets are covered in ice, it gets very slippery; and therefore, people use salt to melt the ice in order to keep the friends safe. 

As a follow-up activity, we added salt to our paint and created a beautiful textured salt art. 

Come see our beautiful art hanging in our classroom.  

We looked at pictures of winter in the city and winter in the mountains. We then documented our observations, and wrote down the differences we see. Next, the children used a variety of white and blue art mediums to create our winter scenes for our walls.

Snowflakes matching:

Matching Mittens

Fine motor skills:

 Lacing winter mittens.

Charlie taking great care of his "baby"

Geffen : "I'm pregnant"

Book response:

In the book " No Two Alike", by Kieth Baker we read how all snowflakes are different. Each snowflake is different, and each child's is special and unique.

As a follow up activity the friends created their own beautiful snowflake. We compared each snowflake, and noticed how each snowflake is different. 

Snow scene art:

At our meeting circle, we discussed that sometimes it is cold outside, and we wear warm clothes to keep our body warm. We also talked about how sometimes specific foods make our body feel cold inside too. So we made a list of food that makes us feel cold inside, then we decided to make smoothies with frozen strawberries and blueberries.

In honor of Tu B'shvat, Tania and Roxanne came for a special planting activity.

We discussed that once a year we celebrate the trees and are thankful for the things trees provides us with.

The children decorated flower pots and put soil and parsley seeds.

Thank you so much for coming!!

Last week Shabbat Party, we celebrated with Geffen the birth of her new baby brother.