Dear Parents,

 

WELCOME NEW FRIEND, ALISA!

The Purple Room has been very warm and welcoming to a new friend who joined the class this week: Alisa Artish! The day before she arrived the Purple Room Friends thought of ideas how to help her feel comfortable in her new class with her new friends:

 

Ronan: We can teach her how to write.

Angie: We can play with and her and the animals and blocks.

Leah: We can show her the Morah and what’s her name and the Morah can say “Boker Tov” (Good Morning). We can show her how to slide down when we go outside. We can show her how to wash her hands. We can show her the Purple Room Keeping Safe sign.

Jemma: We can show her where everything is. We can show her the Safe Place.

Bracha: We can tell her what we do at birthdays. We can show her where the bathroom is. We can show her where the jobs are.

Naveed: We can show her how to daven. We can get a chair for Alisa so she can have snack.

Geffen: We can show her how to sign in and do her Morning Tasks. We can give her homework so she can learn. We can show her all the centers.

 

Tu B’Shvat

In honor of Tu B’Shvat, the Rosh Hashana for trees, the Purple Room focused on trees, parts of trees, plants and how they grow.  They planted grass and monitored its growth every day. They experimented with two trays of grass seeds. They covered one and not the other and noticed the covered one grew faster than the one that wasn’t. They decided to cover both trays to help the slow growing tray catch up.

 

The Purple Room Horticulturists also painted their own pots and planted gladiolas. They are keeping them in class for a while to observe their growth as they tend to them.

 

Song:

If I were a tree, what I’d be 3x

If I were a tree.

 

I would have a trunk (stretch out arms)

I would have branches (jump)

I would have leaves (whoosh with hands)

I would have apples (reach high and eat an apple… nom, nom, nom)

 

Math

The Purple Room Mathematicians explored tens this week. Utilizing the Montessori math beads the children built the tens board and figured out how many tens in each number.

 

Shabbat Shalom!

Morah Perline