This week in the purple room was all about our respiratory system.
Our friends learned all about how we breath and where the air that we breathe goes.
Our bodies breathe either through our mouth or our nose. Our nose has tiny hair inside that cleans the air from dirt. After we take a breathe the air travels to our air tube called the trachea. The trachea is covered by the epiglottis and every time we breathe it opens up to let the air in. The epiglottis protects our respiratory system from food that we eat because our trachea is behind our esophagus. Ones the air is in the trachea it travels to our lungs where the air is cleaned and spread all over our body. We also learned about the function of our diaphragm. It’s located at the bottom of our lungs and every time we breathe in, the diaphragm goes down and give the lungs more room to expand, and every time we breathe out, the diaphragm comes up to help our lungs get rid of the air it’s not using.
We made our own lungs using balloons and straws to see what happens to our lungs when we breathe in and out. Please check out our documentation board that documents all of the learning that has taken place over the past month as we learned about the human body.
Questions to ask at home.
Why does the epiglottis need to close our trachea?
Where is the trachea located?
How many lungs do we have?
What does the diaphragm do when we breathe in?
What do the little hairs in our noses do?
Friday, December 22, 2017
Friday, December 15, 2017
Menorahs from Scratch!
This week in the purple room we were waiting for Chanukah to start and we were finishing all our Chanukah projects and our menorahs.
Our friends made a beautiful menorah from scratch. We first had to sand our wooden plank, so it can be smooth. Then we painted and drew Chanukah pictures. While our menorah was drying we melted crayons and poured them in to dreidel molds. When everything dried it was time to put our menorah together. Our friends used wood glue to glue all the parts together so it can be ready for them to light their own menorah on Chanukah .
Our purple room friends also made their own Chanukah booklet, where they drew pictures of their favorite Chanukah games, food and much more. We were also getting ready for dreidels and Dads, and each friend answered questions about their daddy’s, Tatty’s or Papa’s.
Our friends made a beautiful menorah from scratch. We first had to sand our wooden plank, so it can be smooth. Then we painted and drew Chanukah pictures. While our menorah was drying we melted crayons and poured them in to dreidel molds. When everything dried it was time to put our menorah together. Our friends used wood glue to glue all the parts together so it can be ready for them to light their own menorah on Chanukah .
Our purple room friends also made their own Chanukah booklet, where they drew pictures of their favorite Chanukah games, food and much more. We were also getting ready for dreidels and Dads, and each friend answered questions about their daddy’s, Tatty’s or Papa’s.
Looking forward to continuing the Chanukah celebrations next week!
Morah D
Friday, December 8, 2017
Chanukah
This week in the purple room we learned about Chanukah and played many Chanukah games.
We learned all about why we play dreidels and how it helped the Jewish people learn Torah. Our friends decorated foam dreidels and tried to make their own dreidels out of clay. Our friends learned that the letters on the dreidel stand for Nes Gadol Haya Sham which mean a big miracle happened there, but if you live in Israel the dreidel has a Pey instead of a Shin because in Israel the dreidel letters stand for Nes Gadol Haya Po which means A big miracle happened here.
On Wednesday and Thursday our friends started making their own menorah that they can use during Chanukah to light the candles. We started by sanding down the wood to make it smooth and then we painted it. We will be finishing them next week so you can light them at home with your families!
Share time this week was all about the letter E.
Nosson brought in his egg toy, it was yellow inside and made sounds.
Vella brought in an Elton John CD that she found in her moms car.
Shimmy brought in an electricity box that he made with his papa, it lights up and has blue tape.
Nechama brought in her brother's elephant and an emergency room that her brother built with legos, the emergency room had a toilet and water.
Ben shared an elephant that he found in our class room, it was a baby and was hard.
Shabbat shalom
Morah D
We learned all about why we play dreidels and how it helped the Jewish people learn Torah. Our friends decorated foam dreidels and tried to make their own dreidels out of clay. Our friends learned that the letters on the dreidel stand for Nes Gadol Haya Sham which mean a big miracle happened there, but if you live in Israel the dreidel has a Pey instead of a Shin because in Israel the dreidel letters stand for Nes Gadol Haya Po which means A big miracle happened here.
On Wednesday and Thursday our friends started making their own menorah that they can use during Chanukah to light the candles. We started by sanding down the wood to make it smooth and then we painted it. We will be finishing them next week so you can light them at home with your families!
Share time this week was all about the letter E.
Nosson brought in his egg toy, it was yellow inside and made sounds.
Vella brought in an Elton John CD that she found in her moms car.
Shimmy brought in an electricity box that he made with his papa, it lights up and has blue tape.
Nechama brought in her brother's elephant and an emergency room that her brother built with legos, the emergency room had a toilet and water.
Ben shared an elephant that he found in our class room, it was a baby and was hard.
Shabbat shalom
Morah D
Friday, December 1, 2017
Chanukah story!
After an awesome thanksgiving week where our purple room friends learned all about what being thankful means and enjoyed a wonderful thanksgiving meal with the whole CJP family we returned to a new and exciting week.
This week in the purple room we have been learning all about Chanukah. Our class was decorated with dreidels, menorahs, candles and many different Chanukah stickers and books. Chanukah is coming up and all our friends are very interested in why we celebrate Chanukah. We learned about the story of Chanukah, that there was a very mean king named Antiochus, who didn’t let the Jews learn Torah and he made the Bais Hamikdash very dirty. We played the game of dreidel and learned that the Jews also played dreidel when they were in the cave. The Jewish people would secretly learn Torah and if they saw Antiochus' soldiers coming they would quickly hide the books and play dreidel.
Our friends can’t wait to eat all the latkas and sufganiot, as we learned that we eat food that is cooked in oil. This is because during the time of Antiochus the Jews only had enough oil for 1 day, but Hashem made a miracle and the oil lasted for 8 days and nights.
We also introduced a new Montessori math work to our classroom, and we have been learning how to make the number 11-19 in a tangible way.
Looking forward to more Chanukah learning and preparation next week!
Morah D
This week in the purple room we have been learning all about Chanukah. Our class was decorated with dreidels, menorahs, candles and many different Chanukah stickers and books. Chanukah is coming up and all our friends are very interested in why we celebrate Chanukah. We learned about the story of Chanukah, that there was a very mean king named Antiochus, who didn’t let the Jews learn Torah and he made the Bais Hamikdash very dirty. We played the game of dreidel and learned that the Jews also played dreidel when they were in the cave. The Jewish people would secretly learn Torah and if they saw Antiochus' soldiers coming they would quickly hide the books and play dreidel.
Our friends can’t wait to eat all the latkas and sufganiot, as we learned that we eat food that is cooked in oil. This is because during the time of Antiochus the Jews only had enough oil for 1 day, but Hashem made a miracle and the oil lasted for 8 days and nights.
We also introduced a new Montessori math work to our classroom, and we have been learning how to make the number 11-19 in a tangible way.
Looking forward to more Chanukah learning and preparation next week!
Morah D
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