Our Digestive System

This week in the Purple room we learned about the digestive system, and how our food travels through our body.
Our friends learned that we eat food with our mouth, we break the food down with our teeth, and we have saliva that makes our food smooth so that it can go down our esophagus smoothly. Our friends got to feel their esophagus in their neck and learn that the esophagus connects our mouth to our stomach where the food gets broken down even more because of the gastric juices in our stomachs.  After the stomach the food moves to the small intestine and the large intestine. We tried to build a digestive system in class using pipes and Morah D used a small rock to show how it moves inside the pipes.

Share Day this week was all about the letter B. 

(Direct quotes from each child below)
Ben brought in his Batman suit that had lots of black and yellow on it.  We had a special guest, Jemma from the Blue Room, who loves batman so she came for share to see Ben in his Batman outfit.  We all got to try the costume on, thank you Ben for sharing!  Vella brought in basil that grows in her backyard. It was green and she cooks with it.  Shimmy brought in his book that he read to the class, we all laughed because of all the oops in the story.  Nosson brought in his boat. It’s his bath toy that he shares with Bayla and Nosson got his boat from "before he was born".  Nechama brought in a bear toy that had fur but not real fur, she drew on the bottom of her bears feet so that she knew it was hers and not Dovid’s. Nechama bought her bear from target if anyone wants one.

In this week's parsha of Toldos we learn about how Yitchak and Rivkah had twins, Yaakov and Aisav. Yitzchak loved to learn and Aisav loved to hunt and play games. One day Yaakov was making a delicious lentil soup, Aisav came home and was very hungry and asked Yakov if he can have some. Yakov said sure in exchange for the Bracha of the first born, Aisav agreed.  Yitchak was getting older and it was time for him to give the first born bracha. He called in Aisav to tell him, Aisav was so excited so he went out to make a meal for his father. Meanwhile Rivka told Yaakov about this and told him to dress up like Aisav so that Yitzchak will give him the Bracha. When Yaakov went in Yitchak said you feel like Aisav but you have the voice of Yaakov, so he gave him the Bracha of the firstborn.  We made lentil soup this week just like Yaakov did in the parsha!

Shabbat Shalom

Morah D

Our Hands and Letter A Share

This week in the purple room we learned about arms and hands.
Our friend drew their hands, counted their fingers and practiced writing numbers.

Our room was filled with different materials made of different textures and we enjoyed using our hands and fingers to see how each one felt.  We used rocks to paint with instead of paintbrush’s. 

Morah D set up a challenge table and each area was filled with a different material.
The first station had cubes and letters, our friends used their hands to make the letters out of cubes.
The second and third station had glass stones and rocks to make letters.
The fourth station was rubber bands and we used our fingers to make the letters.

Share day is back and this week was the letter A. All of our friends had to bring something they have or found that began with the letter A.
Ben brought in an airplane named Dusty that has a spinner and is not a mooksa toy.
Nosson brought in an airplane that "he didn’t know where it came from because it was in his family before he was born". His airplane is also not a mooksa toy because it has no batteries and no screws.
Shimmy brought in an action suit that had a belt, cape and a suite with muscles attached.
Vella brought in her sister Ava for share because she starts with the letter A. "Ava was not warm, her hair is soft and she has hard knees".
Nechama brought in her arm band from when she was born, it was hard, soft, and squishy.
In this week's parsha of Chayei Sara we learned with Morah Gitty all about Sara and the 3 special gifts:  Her candles stayed lit from Shabbos to Shabbos, Her challah always satisfied her guests and Hashem rested above her tent. We also learnt about how Yitzchak found a wife, her name was Rivka!   He knew she was the right one when Sara's 3 special gifts came back. At the end of the parsha Avraham passes away at 175 years old.

Shabbat Shalom! Please check the facebook group for lots of pictures from this week.

Morah D

Using our Feet!

This week in the purple room was all about our legs, feet, and toes.
On Monday we learned about the different parts of our legs. We counted our toes, all our friends counted 5 toes on each foot. We learned that we use our feet to walk and our knees to crawl. Ben told us that "Boo Boo uses his knees to crawl and feet to walk" and then all our friends tried to crawl on their knees.
Tuesday and Wednesday were fun days in our classroom, we used our legs to do different obstacle courses that Morah D set out for us.
Tuesdays obstacle course started with playing soccer to pass, run and kick the ball using our legs.  After soccer we jumped over tires. We had a line of feet facing different directions, and our friends jumped and turned their bodies in the direction of the feet. We finished our obstacle course by dipping our feet into paint and walking on paper to see our footprints.  We had lots of fun slipping in the paint and getting dirty.  On Wednesday instead of dipping our feet into the paint we tried to use our toes to grab the paint brush and paint with our toes.
Thursday and Friday were muddy days.  Our obstacle course was crawling through tires, pulling on ropes and dipping our feet in mud. Our friends used lots of sand and water to make the mud, which felt very dirty and gooey to them.  The mud was also different from paint, and our friends realized that they can feel different textures with their feet as well as their hands.

This week we started learning Parsha with Morah Gitty.  In this week's parsha of Vayera we learned all about Abraham and Sarah’s hachnasat orchim (inviting guests). We created Abraham's tent which had 4 doors for all to visit. We also learnt about the 3 malachim (angels) that came with 2 pieces of news, one that Sara will have a baby and the other that the city of Sedom will be destroyed. We also learnt all about akeidas yitchak, how Avraham always listened to Hashem.