Dear Parents,

 

Conscious Discipline

The Purple Room was introduced to a new Brain Break this week: Boom Snap Clap. Brain Breaks, a Conscious Discipline technique, are short mental breaks taken throughout a lesson or academic activity. They help children remain calm, focused and engaged, and they have been shown to reduce stress. Ask your child to show you Boom Snap Clap.

 

Pesach

The Purple Room is learning how the Jewish People got to live in Mitzrayim (Egypt) in the first place and how the Paroah that lived in Yosef’s time was a different Paroah who lived later. The later Paroah enslaved the Jewish People. Fortunately, the Jewish People were freed from Mitzrayim by Hashem who heard the cries of the suffering people.

 

What’s the difference between a worker and a slave? What do you think a slave does all day? How do you think a slave feels?

 

Bracha:

My dad works on a computer. My dad and mom have a lot of meetings.

 

A slave is when you work for someone to make sure you have a roof on your house. My mom says if you don’t work then the house on the roof would not be on.

 

Geffen:

My Mom does something different than a work. She makes cakes for people. My Dad works on a computer.

 

A slave does hard work you don’t like.

 

Jemma:

A slave has to work very hard for people. A worker does easy work.

 

Ronan:

My mom gives smart people bosses. My dad’s home job is a builder. He builds stuff only at home.

 

You don’t pay slaves and you pay workers.

 

Songs:

We Were Slaves

 עבדים היינו היינו                

לפרעה במצרים במצרים                

(Avadim hayinu, hayinu

L’Paroah b’Mitzrayim, b’Mitzrayim)

 

We were slaves

We were slaves

To Paraoh in Mitzrayim (Egypt)

In Mitzrayim

3X

 

Bang, Bang, Bang
Bang, bang, bang

Hold your hammers low.

Bang, bang, bang

Give a heavy blow.

 

For it’s work, work, work

Every day and every night

For it’s work, work, work

When it’s dark and when it’s light

 

Dig, dig, dig

Dig your shovels deep

Dig, dig, dig

There’s no time to sleep

 

For it’s work, work, work

Every day and every night

For it’s work, work, work

When it’s dark and when it’s light

 

 

A hand-eye coordination activity the Purple Room Friends really enjoyed this week was peeling back a layer of cardboard from a box to reveal the bumpy layer underneath. They used that as a base for a crayon rubbing of the cover page to their Haggada.

 

Another sensory activity the children enjoyed was creating their own play dough. The Purple Room Friends created their own matzahs!

 

The Purple Room Friends have begun learning the Mah Nishtana so they can be ready for the Pesach Seder.

 

The Purple Room Friends are continuing to utilize the Waseca Literacy program and Montessori Math, each at their own pace.

 

Shabbat Shalom!

Morah Perline