Dear Parents,

 

Chanukah, oh Chanukah, what fun we’ve had in Purple Room! Every day this week was packed with Chanukah fun integrated with literacy, math, science and art.

 

Science

The Purple Room Scientists tested many theories they had about oil and water. They used droppers to drop colored water onto the oil and blew colored oil and water with a straw.

 

Before they began the experiment, they offered their hypothesis. After they conducted the experiment they noted their observations:

 

Bracha:

Hypothesis: I think that colored water will turn clear.

Observation: It looks like bubbles.

 
Leah:

Hypothesis: I think the water will go up.

Observation: It looks like cents.

 

Jemma:

Hypothesis: I think it will turn red.

Observation: It looks like sparkling apple juice.

 

Ronen:

Hypothesis: I think the water will disappear.

 Observation: It looks like honey.

 

Naveed:

Observation:  The water went out.

 

Angie:

Observation: It looks like the ocean.

 

Observations of straw blowing the oil and water:

Jemma: When I was blowing with the straw the color was spreading around..

Bracha: It went to different corners and then went to the same place.

Leah: It made a duck.

Ronen:-  It stayed in its place.

 

Art

The Purple Room Artists created dreidel sculptures. They mixed plaster with water to create a dreidel. Once it dried they painted the dreidel and decorated the display stand to complete a stunning creation.

 

Made latkes from scratch. They peeled the potatoes and then grated them. Checked the eggs to make sure they were kosher (no blood spots) and mixed them with the potatoes, salt and flour

 

Math

The Purple Room Mathematicians ‘made’ latkes in a giant fry pan made of blocks. They each received an equation they had to figure out. They used the ‘latkes’ (aka Magnatiles) to represent the addends which they ‘threw’ into the pan. By figuring out the sum they knew how many jumps they got to jump into the giant fry pan.

 

Practical life skills

The Purple Room Cooks made delicious latkes this week from scratch. They peeled, cut, grated and mixed the potatoes. Eating them was the best part. The Purple Room children loved singing the latke song and would make sure to sing it down the hall so the ‘little kids can learn it’!

 

Song:

Latkele, latkele, hop, hop, hop,

Jump right into my pot.

Fry and sizzle merrily ,

For you’re the one I’ll eat, you see!

 

Shabbat Shalom!

Morah Perline