This week the purple room is getting ready for Purim.
Our class has been turned in to castle with thrones made of tires and pillows. It’s so comfortable that all our friends take whatever work they are doing into the castle and lounge on their throne. Our dramatic play area has become a hamentashen factory, next week we will be making and baking real hamentashen all week long.
To prepare for Purim we have been making masks and graggers using lids from mason jars and filling them with beans, beads and stones, then painting and decorating them with Purim pictures. Our friend have also been working on creating there very own Megillah, they have been drawing pictures of the Purim story.
In our math area we have been sorting pennies by the years they were created, all the way from 1950 to 2018. This activity has sparked great conversations about if the penny was made before they were born or if they remembered anything that happened during that year. They found a penny from 2016, Morah D told them that’s the year she moved to Arizona, and they started talking about what they remember, they remembered that Shaya’s Mom told them that Morah Ora’s friend will be their teacher. A penny from 2017 reminded them about a very special wedding they all attended, and they were all quiet during the chuppah. When giving tzedaka all our friends look at the pennies to see the year the penny was made.

Shabbat Shalom and See you next week dressed up for Purim Spirit Week!

Morah D

This week in the purple room we where getting ready for Tu B'Shvat and grandparents day.
This whole week out friends have been learning, planting and watching how plants grow from a small seed. They learned what plants need, from sun to water and to what plants breath in. Each friend used a kidney bean and put in a wet napkin and watched everyday to see what happens. After a few day our friends saw roots coming out from the bean. The next day we planted the root and covered it with a blanket, because roots don’t like sun light directly on them. Thank you to Shternie she brought our friends pencils with seeds. Our friends where very eager to plant them right away.
For grandparents day we made beautiful keychains for their grandparents, we traced our hands and wrote a special message for each grandparent.

Share time was all about the letter J
Nosson brought in a jump rope from his garage and showed us how to use it.
Vella brought in jam in a jar and we all got to try her strawberry jam, yummy!
Shimmy brought in his awesome jet pack that his papa made.
Nechama brought in her baby jaguar that her grandma bought her for Hanukkah.
Ben brought jam that was hard and had a cover.

In this week's parsha of Yisro we learned all about how Yisro helped Moshe divide the responsibility of answering the Jews questions. We also learned about how the Jews received the Torah, we had a super fun interactive Torah receiving of our own where Rabbi Tzvi brought a real live Torah for us to see.