Dear Parents,

The Thanksgiving Lunch was a smashing success and the children really enjoyed making the soup for the event. They sliced and peeled and poured and measured. They hope you enjoyed the soup which combined the idea of the lentil soup from that week’s Parsha and the pumpkin soup for the special lunch.

ART

The children have employed George Seurat’s Pointillism style of art to paint stones which they searched for and found in the CJP playground. They know that, in this week’s Parsha, Yaakov surrounded his head with 12 stones for protection from any possible wild animals while he slept. The Purple Room Artists used Q-tips, the backs of paint brushes and toothpicks to achieve different sized points (aka dots) and created unique and beautiful stones to be used for math activities.

MATH + PARSHA

In this week’s Parsha the Purple Room created patterns, an important math skill, and incorporated fine motor skills when they each created ‘Yaakov’s ladder’. Ask your child what the pattern for each ladder rung is.

Different striped and spotted sheep featured in this week’s Parsha and was a fun way to reinforce counting. 

PARSHA + SCIENCE

The Purple Room Friends now know that the prayers we say three times a day were instituted by our three fathers (aka Patriarchs): Avraham (Shacharis in the morning), Yitzchok (Mincha in the afternoon) and Yaakov (Ma’ariv in the evening).

SONG

Three Times a Day

(TTTO Three Blind Mice)

Three times a day

To Hashem we pray 

Three times a day

To Hashem we pray 

Shacharis is the morning tune

Mincha in the afternoon

Ma’ariv by the light of the moon

Three times a day.

The Purple Room Whizzes know that Yaakov traveled out of Eretz Yisrael and traveling involves direction. The directions of North, South, East and West were explored this week in conjunction with this theme and the children conducted an experiment. Looking at the world globe in the classroom, they noted that the top of the earth has a North side, the North Pole, and the bottom of earth has a south side, the South Pole. Going ‘round the earth, they explored the East and the West. They also discovered an interesting thing about magnets and direction: when they floated a magnetized needle in the water on a small piece of cork, no matter in which direction they set down the needle, it would always turn to the north, proving the magnetic center of the earth is to the north.

LITERACY

Each child works to his/her own level in Literacy through the Waseca program. The Sight Word game this week was a lot of fun with each child owning the words he/she felt comfortable and then exploring their classmate’s words.

KRIYAH (Hebrew Reading)

Jemma (after practicing Kriyah (Hebrew reading): You know which letters I like the best? Samech, Alef, Kof, Lamed, Daled.

FIELD TRIP
On Thursday, December 19th, we will be going to the Rennaisance Assisted Living Center to have a pre-Chanukah Party with the senior citizens. If you would like to drive on the trip, please let Masha know!

Have a wonderful Shabbos!

Morah Perline

Morah Chaya