Dear Parents,

MATH

Counting was featured very often this week. The Purple Room Friends tried to count the stars projected onto the wall but found it an impossible task. They learned that the bracha Avraham was given by Hashem was that he would have descendants numbering as many as the stars in the sky and the sand by the sea. That’s a lot! They collected scattered ‘stars’ from all over the classroom. After collecting them, they counted them into piles of 10 and then counted in tens to see how many they had collected. While on the topic of stars the children read about planets and other wonders of our universe.

The Cuisenaire math rods were used to create pictures and then identify the numbers associated with the rods they used.

ART

The Art discussion this week centered on Georges Seurat, an important French artist who originated the Pointillist method, using little dots to create a picture. The Purple Room children will be utilizing this method in the month of November.

While learning about the Parsha the children heard that Avram was told by Hashem to leave his birthplace and go to the land Hashem would show him. This would be the land that Hashem would give to Avraham and his descendants: Eretz Yisrael. The children explored different ways of traveling, some by foot, by camel, by car, by plane etc.  and created ‘car art’ with car tires and created their own paper airplanes.

LITERACY

Utilizing the Waseca Literacy program the Kindergarten children are able to independently spell CVC (Consonant Vowel Consonant) words and check their own work too. They then practice writing the words. The Pre K children are sounding out the letters and finding the matching letters. Pre K has been focusing on ‘a’ words such as bat, fan. The Kindergarten children have been focusing on ‘a’, ‘i’ and ‘u’ words.

Parsha Song:

https://www.chabad.org/528140

When Avrom was a small boy of three
He looked at the stars and the sea
He thought the Creator was in the sky
The sun or the moon so high

But after each one in its time did set
He knew there was someone greater yet
Then he understood, and was filled with love
He knew Hashem Echad was above

Shabbat Shalom!

Morah Perline

Morah Chaya