B”H

Dear Parents,

Literacy

The Purple Room are keeping a sharp eye out for sight words the, to, and, and a. They are using the Waseca program to sound out letters to create words. They have created many words including cap, gas, dad, van and sap, to name a few. These words all use the a is for apple sound.

Math

The children collected groups of 10 sticks and created bundles of 10. Some groups learned about ‘counting on’ as in 10, 11, 12, 13…, using the 10 bundle to start counting with and then counting on.

Reinforcing eye hand coordination, the Purple Room Mathematicians created bundles with a rubber band around every 10 sticks. Getting the bundle into a rubber band, twisting it around and then looping it over the bundle can get tricky and needs practice.

Parsha

The Purple Room Friends were quite puzzled when they came to CJP one day and saw small red ribbons tied in many places of the classroom. Once they learned about the Parsha they understood why. When the Jewish farmer tended to his fields in the Land of Israel he would tie a red ribbon around the first bud he saw of each new kind of fruit of the 7 Kinds. These first fruits or grain, aka Bikurim, would be given to Hashem and taken to the Beis Hamikdash. The Purple Room friends know which are the 7 Kinds of fruit and grain the Land of Israel was blessed with.

Art

The Purple Room Friends are very busy in preparation for Rosh Hashana. They created stunning cards utilizing the Jackson Pollock art style for personal wishes to their grandparents for a sweet new year. For their own homes they created honey dishes for their Rosh Hashanah tables. 

Show and Tell

The Purple Room will begin to have Show and Tell next week. Each child has a day that he/she can bring something from home to show and tell about in class. This is a confidence building activity where the child expresses his/her thoughts about the item and answers questions from the ‘audience’. This is optional; he/she may decide to bring something or not.

Monday:

Zoe

Roni

Tuesday:

Mason

Hammond

Wednesday:

Tzivia

Alice

Thursday:

Jemma

Ari

Thank You for our New Home!

Thank you to Hammond’s mom, Erin Wilkens, for creating a fabulous whimsical home in the classroom’s Home Corner. The children are absolutely loving it:

Ari: I like it because it keeps us safe 

Jemma: I think it’s gorgeous!

Zoe: Because it has a roof .

Hammond: It has a new roof.

Alice: The roof makes it really cool.

Mason: I like to play with the new stuff. 

Roni: The roof has ribbons so it’s pretty,

Have a wonderful Shabbos!

Morah Perline and Morah Chaya