B”H

Dear Parents,

Literacy

The Purple Room have added more words to their sight word board: it, I and you. While listening when books were read, the children found and read the sight words.

The Purple Room children completed their Machzor (prayer book for Rosh Hashanah) which they can bring to Shul to use on Rosh Hashanah. They illustrated their wishes and thoughts and some children sounded out and wrote the words. The Rosh Hashana songs the children have been singing are printed on the last two pages.

Math

Happy birthday to the world! This past Wednesday was the anniversary of the first day of creation 5780 years ago. The children entered the class to the tune of Happy Birthday and left at the end of the day with birthday crowns. The Purple Room Math Whizzes used the ‘Counting to 100’s’ card to count in 10’s to 100. They searched for 79, the last two digits of the current Jewish year (5779), and then found the number after, 80, for the new Jewish year of 5880 which will begin on the first day of Rosh Hashana.

Art

The Purple Room Artists drew a still life of the Shofar after discussing and closely observing its shape and colors. Surprisingly, Ari found blue in the shofar and there it was! The Purple Room Artists decided that the Shofar is almost a semicircle shape and learned about the crescent shape. Hammond suggested that it had a twisted crescent shape. The Art, somewhat of an abstract offering, is proudly presented in the hallway on the class’s bulletin board.

Self Development

The Purple Room began Show and Tell this week. The children have presented each day with such poise and eloquence while the audience respectfully listened and later asked questions. It is a wonderful opportunity for each child to learn to express her/himself. They shine as they have their moment being the center of attention. 

Rosh Hashana

The children have been exploring some of the different foods we eat on Rosh Hashana. Mason said there would be 100 seeds inside the pomegranate. Counting the seeds, the children made groups of 10 and then counted in 10s. 

The children heard the story of the little apple tree who wanted stars on his branches. Each child cut open an apple and saw a star shape in the center of the apple! Later, the children sampled the apple dipped in honey in preparation for Rosh Hashana. 

Finger Play

10 little apples in the tree

One fell down just for me

Dip it in the honey, make a bracha too

Rosh Hashana for me and you.

Shana Tova!

Nine little apples, etc…

Many people have the head of the fish on their Rosh Hashana table. The Purple Room Friends know this is because we ask Hashem to consider us as the head, not the tail. Morah Masha kindly brought a real fish for the children to see, smell and touch. Zoe said it smelled like a fish.

One of the activities the Purple Room Mathematicians enjoyed was counting the ‘pomegranate’ blocks with a throw of the dice, then adding them to create a tower.

Have a wonderful Shabbos and an inspiring, joyous Yom Tov!

Wishing you and your family a Ketiva V’chatima Tova, L’shana Tova U’metuka – may you be written and sealed for a sweet new year!

Morah Perline and Morah Chaya