We continued with the days of creationd and had the children look through magazines and cut out pictures that had to do with each day of creation and create a collage. They are hanging out in the hallway by our cubbies. They worked very hard and did a great job!

We also worked ona flower oroject where the children were given coffee filters and droppers and using waterpaitns they had to drop the paint using the droppers onto the filters to create colors aming flowers out of this. This helped to work on fine motor skills and they had fun doing it.

Our class learned about Lag B'Omer and we know that its importnt to be a good freind. so we made special red heart projects with a sign in it saying that we love our friends like we love ourselves. We reviewed how we need to treat our frinds and that we need to always be nice.

This week we have some caterpillar visitors in our room. We have been watching them closely and seeing how big they are getting. We are going to see what happens to them...

Since Passover we have begun to learn about our next theme- Our World. We began by learning about how Hashem created the world in 7 days. We began with the first day and know that he created light and dark (day and night). Our friends were taught that there are three different types of light-sun, fire, and light bulbs. We spoke about how each is used and we even went on a hunt for different types of light and we found so many.
Our class learned all about the letter S. We spoke about many different words that begin with the letter. We know that shadow begins with S. We went outsid to explore our shadows and discovered that they are not all the same. Morha even brought in flashlights for us to play with and discover with to make shapes and shadows with inside too.
As a treat we baked light and dark cupcakes- they were yummy!

 On the second day we learned that Hashem created heavens and the earth. We spoke about what we find in the sky and on the ground. We went on a mission to find some clouds. We took out our spy goggles to help us see them better. The children realized that not all the clouds look the same and there arent always clouds in the sky. We spoke about the different kinds of clds and that really dark clouds bring rain and thats how we get rain. The children worked hard on the class bulletin board in the room making the sun, clds, and even rain drop all out of different art teaxtures. We spoke about water and that its very important. Sometimes it freezes and melts too. Our class made ice cubes and saw how they freeze. Morah even froze paint and we used it to make a masterpiece in the classrrom as we painted the frozen paint melted and went onto the paper. The children found this to be amazing!

Our class spoke about the third day of creation. We learned that Hashem created the plants and trees. Morah made a chart for us to see the process of how a seed is planted and then grow by being watered and given a lot of sun light. The children each got a cup of water with a straw in it to act as if they were the plant rowing bigger and bigger as they drnak their water just like a plant does too. They really enjoyed this and it helped them to understand it more. Our class even got the plant seends and we will be watering theses plants and put them into sunlight and watch them grow.

 

Pesach was a very fun filled andeaxciting time in  our Nursery class. We learned all about the story of the Jewish people having to work for the mean King Pharoh and how they cried so much.They made bricks that looks like the Charoset that we eat on Pesach. We also know that Moshe tried to go to Pharoh and ask to let the Jewish people go so many times, but each time he said no. Hashem sent 10 plagues and the Egyptians and Pharoh didnt like them. Morah taught us a song about the ten plagues. Finally he le the Jewish people go. Our friends know that there are 15 steps of the sedar and the song that we sing for it. We dip in salt water to remember the tears that the Jewish people cried. We know the significance of many numbers for pesach. 4 is for the four cups of wine that we drink. 1 is for the one and only Hashem, 3 are for the matzot, 2 is for the number of sedars that we have. Nursery friends worked very hard to make so many projects so that they can take part as much as possible in the sedar. Their hagadahs were lots of fun to make and they love seeing their own faces in them! We hope you enjoyed all of the projects. Our class joined in with the other Nursery class to have a model sedar so we would all know what to expect and be familiar with what will take ace at the real one. The children all did such a great job. They all knew what the steps were and what we do at each. They were able to sing the songs and answers all of the questions we had for them. We are so proud of them!

learning about all the diferent things we use on pesach

afikomen bag

sedar plate project

working on our hagadahs

sifting the flour

adding the fkour and water together very quickly

baking our very own matzah

Our trip to model sedar- leaving egypt through the yam suf



Our model sedar