Sukkot Learning

The Purple Room had so much fun learning about Sukkot. We ate snack and lunches in the sukkah, making the special bracha for enjoying the sukkah. We davened in the sukkah, and took our play lulav and etrog to the sukkah too!

 

We built a tiny sukkah in our dramatic play center in the classroom. The children made pretend meals, sang songs, and played in the tiny sukkah. 

 

There was a lot of interest in sukkah building. The children also built their own sukkot out of blocks and loose parts.

And, of course, we did plenty of other learning! Many students are working on letter recognition, which we focus on through songs, games, and manipulatives like this giant floor puzzle.

Another important aspect of early literacy is letter formation. Children this age are still building the fine motor skills needed to write with a pen or pencil. There are many other ways to learn how to form letters, such as using playdough, wikistixs, or sets of lines and curves such as these below.

Students work together to put number cards in order. Fingers are a very useful early math tool! We sing a lot of songs that require counting or adding and subtracting with fingers. This helps students connect the number names to the quantities.

We made outlines of classmates with tape! This invited cooperation, and led to marvelous loose parts play and math learning. We decorated the tape people, measured them, and counted how many rocks or buttons we needed to create different features.

 

We have spent so much time outdoors now that the weather is cooling off! It is finally cool enough to play with the outdoor building blocks. These amazing materials let children build structures that are taller than themselves!