What an great week! One of my favorites.
ANIMAL WEEK
Monday was mammal week. Morah D brought in her dog ( Brownie ) and Morah Felicia brought in her guinea pig ( Trevor ). Both animals are mammals.
What is a mammal? Our friends learned that a mammal has hair or fur, is warm blooded, makes milk for their babies and can’t breathe underwater. Are people mammals? Yes we are also mammals. Ben thought that even if someone is bald, they are still a mammal. Our friends learned that the largest land mammal is an elephant and the largest water mammal is the blue whale. All of CJP got to play with brownie and Trevor, they felt their hair and even got kisses. Brownie went outside with all our friends and everyone got a chance to walk the dog.
Tuesday was fish day. Morah Gitty brought us different fish for our friends to observe, how do they eat? How do they swim? How do they breathe? A fish is an animal that is cold blooded, they have fins and a tale to help them swim, they lay see-through eggs, they live in the water and have gills to breathe in the water. The largest fish is a whale shark. Our friends put their fingers into the water so they can feel the fish suck on their fingers.
Wednesday was bird day. CJP had chicks, ducklings, and a parakeet in our school. What is a bird? Birds are warm blooded, they have wings but not all birds fly, birds have feathers, birds lay hard shell eggs. The largest bird is an ostrich, one ostrich egg equals to 24 chicken eggs.
Our friends all played, held and observed the duckling and chicks. We had 3 ducklings and 3 chicks. Our ducklings joined all our friends outside, we set up a small pool for them to swim in, they were racing and cleaning themselves in the water.  Later our chicks joined us in the grass and we got to observe how different the ducks are from the chicks. Ducks have webbed feet and chicks don’t, they also are different colors and have a different beak.
Thursday was reptile day, we had lizards and tortoises in our school. Reptiles are cold blooded, they lay soft shell eggs, and have scaly like skin but not shiny. The largest reptile is the salt water crocodile. Our friends got to hold and feel the tortoise shell and arms. We took the tortoises outside so that we can feed them lettuce from our garden.
Friday was insect day. In our school we had hissing cockroaches, horn warms, earth worms and crickets. Insects lay eggs and they have 3 pairs of legs. The largest insect is the giant weta. Interacting with insects can be very scary and it took us some time to get used to them but after a while we were able to conquer our fear and hold all the insects-even the giant cockroach, some friends even put them on their heads!
This has been a very fun week.

Share this week was about the letter P
Nosson brought in his pieces that he can build with.
Vella brought in popcorn
Ben brought pie that we made from scratch with their mom
Nechama brought in a giant pot the we cooked all our friends in

Shabbat Shalom!
See you all next week.

Morah D