Yom Kippur

This week in the purple room we learned all about Yom Kippur.

On Monday we learned that on Yom Kippur many adults fast, but the children are not allowed to fast. Our friends learned that we wear white clothing so we look like angels.  We also don't wear leather shoes on Yom Kippur.  It is a special day to do teshuva and say sorry for anything we may have done wrong over the past year.  We daven to Hashem to write us in the book of life for a wonderful sweet year!

On Tuesday our friends learned about Kaparot, we take a live hen or rooster and turn it over our heads 3 times and say a pasuk.

In our math center this week, we played the game uno.  You can learn a lot from Uno! We matched colors, numbers, counted our cards and had fun playing a game while learning.

On Wednesday and Thursday we read the story of Yona and the whale.  We spoke about how he didn't listen to Hashem and was swallowed by a big fish, but he did Teshuva and Hashem forgave him. 

We discovered that we can use our math rods for building a maze! It was lots of fun. We tried to balance a pillow, a cup and a bell while counting our steps walking through the maze and trying not to drop the pillow, cup or ring the bell.  This was very hard and very funny.

In our out door play ground our friends had to clean up all the toys and help Morah move the stumps to create new seats all over our play ground, the stumps were very heavy but we learned that if we turn them over and work together we can roll them to their new spot.

Have a great weekend and easy fast.
Morah D

Building our own Shul

Rosh Hashana is almost here! In the purple room we learned all about the different names of Rosh Hashana, we ate green and red apples to see which one is sweet and sour and dipped sweet apples into honey for sweet new year. Our friends learned about teshuva, and tashlich, and what we say on Rosh Hashana.

SHANA TOVA
Our dramatic area was filled with pictures of a round challah, shofars for friends to feel and blow, candles for them to light and say a bracha, apples and honey for them to try and a machzors for them to daven with.

Our block area was filled with pictures of different shuls, so our friends built there own shul, an Aaron for the Torahs, and seats for them to sit and daven.  We even had Rabbi Tzvi come blow the shofar in our new shul. The next day in our block area our friends built an Aaron Kodesh next to Kitchen 18, and they only served meat-not dairy, because Kitchen 18 doesn't have pizza.

Thursday was a busy day with baking honey cake.  We filled up the whole school with a holiday smell, that reminded Ben and Shimmy that they made a lemon cake for their grandpas birthday.
Nosson said "that's cool, I will need a cake when I'm Bar Mitzvah'd".
Ben said "call us when it's your Bar Mitzvah and we'll make you a cake".

Shares this week
Vella brought in her blue stone that she loves "I can see the whole carpet when you look through it" and again it was hard.
Nosson brought a monster truck "The wheels spin, some of it is glass"
Ben brought an ambulance "It's white on top gray on the bottom" Nosson said "No it's silver".
Shimmy brought a butterfly "It's made of wood, it's smooshy ".
Nechama brought in her bobcat, the whiskers were made of strings and it's eyes were hard.

Have a good weekend & Shabbat shalom
Morah D

PS Please see the Facebook group for lots more pictures of our week!

The beginning of Rosh Hashana learning!

This week in the purple room we discussed what everyone did during the long weekend.

Vella said " I played and went to bed."

Nosson said " I watched a video, and played on my Ipad, and I went to the park with my cousins the Lipskers. "

Ben said " I went to a new park and we didn't see anything it was so dark."

Shimmy said " I went to snow."

Nechama said " i went to Target and bought a dinosaur."  which she brought on her share day.

Our friends are very excited that we finished  our calendar!  After so much fun and hard work we were finally able to put our calendar together.  While we were putting the calendar together we enjoyed remembering who wrote each number and letter. We learned the days of the week in Hebrew and English, and we learned that Hebrew letters are also numbers.
 

During our quiet time we are still have lots of fun while learning independently. Each friend wrote there full names in Hebrew and English using dry erase markers.  Later during the week we added writing Hebrew letters, upper case ABC, and numbers 1-10, learning that the number 10 is made of two numbers 1 and 0.

  

Rosh Hashana is close by, so our friends started learning about the different names of Rosh Hashana, why we blow the Shofar, why we eat apples dipped in honey, and much more. To have a fun discussion about the holiday Morah D hid objects that pertain to Rosh Hashana in balloons filled with water and froze them.  The next day our friends had to chisel the objects from the ice and tell us about why and what the object is used for.

Share day started last week. Each friend brings in something very special to them, they tell all our friends about it, the class is able to ask questions and have a chance to feel/touch what they brought.

Last week Nosson brought a sling shot that has many colors and he showed us how to use it.

Last week Vella brought in a hard-not-soft doll named Claudine " I pretend to play with it and I love it"

Last week Ben brought in his Spiderman that "He has a bottom which says 4 years and up."  Nosson replied "Spiderman wears leggings and underwear on top"

Last week Nechama brought a fluffy pilliow that she has had for a very long time and she sleeps with it.

Last week Shimmy brought in Dusty the plane and boat "it lands in water, it is red and black and white"

   

This weeks share.

Shimmy brought a ball and a Frisbee that is purple, the Frisbee was hard but the ball was soft.

Ben brought a tortoise that is sharp, sticky, and smells like clay, AND OF COURSE ITS HARD.

Nechama's share came all the way from target to visit us. He is very hard. Nechama also showed us the correct way the dinosaur roars.  

Vella brought her blue stone like the letter Ll and she really really really loves it.

Nossson brought in a snake that opens its mouth and its not hard on the bottom.

Shabbat Shalom Morah D

Calendar for the New Year!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
  In the purple room this week we worked on our Hebrew calendar. All of our friends wrote the Hebrew days, months, year and numbers. Look out for the official Purple Room calendar next week, made entirely by our class! 

  Mitzva was a big topic this week, learning what a mitzva is and how we can do more mitzvos through out the day.
Nosson said " To help someone, and say' please can I have'. If we do a mitzva Hashem gets closer."
Ben " Light candles"
Batya (Vella) "I put on my shoes and say Thank you to my mommy."
Shimmy " Say Thank you to my mommy."
Nechama " Saying Thank you."



Many mitzvos happen every day in our class.  Vella was running around in the classroom and Nechama said "Vella don't run it's the rule, you can get hurt. Stop I don't want you to get hurt your my best friend."

Our class room mitzva we spoke about this week is saying Hi and how are you when we meet new people and our friends.



















Our sensory bin this week has been filled with dirt and play food, our friends searched through the dirt to 'dig up' the food and told everyone the bracha for that food.











   Our math area this week has all been about numbers recognizing them and counting. We used our puzzle pictures to count the number of pictures and connect them to the right number

Our block area was filled with pictures this week of buildings, parks, castles, roads, and playgrounds.
Ben and Shimmy built a castle on a hill.
Ben said: "No it's not a hill it's a volcano"
Shimmy said: " Morah D all the blocks don't fit we need a screw driver."

It was another wonderful week full of learning and exploring.  Looking forward to next week when we will begin to learn about Rosh Hashana.

Shabbat Shalom!

Morah D