Dear Parents,

 

Literacy

The Purple Room has been working on rhyming words. This is a great game to play at home. Your child can even make up some words. Such as ‘Who’s coming to supper, bupper, lupper…”! Or “Let’s all go home, rome, lome…” The Purple Room has been playing rhyming bingo and talking in rhyme to help the ear become more accustomed to the sounds of the words. They are learning that rhyming words have the same ending sounds such as cat, hat, bat…

They know that ‘rhyming words sound the same at the end’. They may not be spelled the same but they sound the same. The Purple Room Friends created an -at and -ed rhyming word list:

-at - cat, hat, rat, mat, sat, bat

-ed – bed, dead, said

 

A big Mazal Tov to two more Purple Room Friends who are now working with their Red Books! (Waseca Montessori Literacy Program) Mazal Tov to Geffen! Mazal Tov to Naveed! To be able to begin working with the Red Book means the child can identify every letter sound of the alphabet and can form words beginning with cat, man, etc. utilizing the moveable alphabet to do so.

 

Parsha

The Purple Room learned this week about a mean Pharoah who made not good choices. He was very mean to the Jewish People and made them work like slaves. The Jewish People cried out to Hashem to help them and take them away from this cruel country Mitzrayim. Hashem heard their cries and saved them by sending Moshe to take them out. Moshe went to Pharoah to tell him to let the Jewish People go but Pharoah said no. Then Hashem brought makos (plagues) upon the Mitzriyim, not the Jews. In this Parsha the Purple Room Friends learned about seven of the makos: Blood, Frogs, Lice, Wild Animals, Sick farm animals, Boils, and Hail.

 

Song:

 (TTTO: 4 Green and Speckled Frogs)

 

4 green and speckled frogs

Sitting on a Mitzri’s head

Eating from his delicious food,

Yum! Yum!

 

One jumped into the pot,

Where it was really hot,

Then there were 4 speckled frogs.

 

4 green and speckled frogs…

3…

2…

1…

 

THANK YOU!!

A HUGE thank you to Ronan Hensdell’s dad who built two wooden frames with circular holders wedged in for creating giant pixel pictures, patterns and matching games. Morah Perline has a kind friend who collected and saved bottle cases for many years and gave them to Morah to use for the  children. Ronan’s dad kindly cut them down and created two giant boards. The Purple Room Artists painted the frames and it looks stunning! (See CJP Facebook page) They will be available for all the classes to have fun with.

 

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to Geffen! May you continue to bring nachas to your parents and family!

 

Please Note:

No school on Monday, January 18 Teacher In-Service Day.

 

Shabbat Shalom!

Morah Perline