While Morah Perline has been enjoying time with her daughter and new grandchild I have been spending the day with the Kindergarten class. Since I don't read Hebrew we have spent the day on English work. We started working on community helpers this week. We have talked about park rangers, vets and zookeepers, and firefighters. We also learned about using the comma when writing a letter. We are practicing by writing letters to our friends. When we played sight word bingo I was really impressed by how far the students have come in knowing their sight words. 

We are learning about money in math. This includes learning about needs versus wants and the difference between goods and services. We are playing games to learn to identify the coins and also they value so we can add up amounts. We have played bingo and a board game to practice this skill.

I have tried to add some fun art projects this week. The kids loved when we learned about pointillism and asked to do another project. We made a forest with a park ranger in pointillism style. We made fire trucks with boxes. We practiced our critical thinking skills by putting together a fire truck puzzle. We painted using match box cars instead of paintbrushes.

Focusing on social emotional skills we have been talking about how it is more important to be kind than to be right. We have talked about how when you are right it is important to be gracious. We also talked about how there is no need to argue to prove you are right if it is hurting another person’s feelings. 

Good Shabbos!

Morah Kristina