Dear Kindergarten Parents of the Purple Room,

Ahavas Yisrael

The main theme of the Kindergarten classroom, as can plainly be seen by the huge sign in the Dramatic Center, is ‘Ahavas Yisrael’, loving and caring for another. An opportunity arose this week for the class to act on this Mitzva. They stopped the activity they were involved in to care for the hurt feelings of one of their classmates. The child who felt hurt visited the Safe Place, a safe space anyone can visit if they feel the need to be alone. A short while later, after Morah enquired as to what could help the child transition back into the class, the child expressed the need for the Kindergarten classmates to come and sit by the child. The Caring Kindergarten children stopped eating their lunch, left the table and came to sit quietly for a while with that child. One of the visiting children asked, “What can I do to help you feel better?” Another invited, “Do you want to come eat lunch with us?” Exercising caring in words and actions showed love and caring to the child and very soon the child felt ready to join the class for lunch. Hashem is proud of the caring and loving Kindergarten children. Ahavas Yisrael – loving another as you love yourself. This is the basis of our Torah.

Literacy + Parsha

When Eliezer, Avraham’s servant, searched for the right wife for Avraham’s son, Yitzchak, he found Rivkah and gave her beautiful and expensive presents including jewelry. Utilizing fine motor skills, the Kindergarten Jewelers created Alef Beis necklaces for their mothers this Shabbos. (See CJP Fb page)

Song: (link to tune: https://www.chabad.org/603911)

Now it was time for Yitzchok to marry
Hashem’s bracha, his children would carry
Eliezer was sent a wife to find
She must be good and kind

He took camels and jewelry the best
On his way, he sat down to rest
"Please Hashem", he said with all his might
"Help me find the girl that is just right."

Then he saw Rivkah, B’suel’s daughter
“May I give you and your camels some water?”
At the moment the good deed was done
Eliezer knew that she was the one.

Eliezer and Rivkah to Canaan did ride
Yitzchok took Rivkah, for his bride
Now Yitzchok at last was sure
The anan hakavod (Cloud of Glory), was back at his door.

Parsha Discussions:

How far would you go to help a stranger in need?

Jonah: Give them some water.

Nosson: If they are blind you can help them find their way to go home.

Ben: Making a seat for them so they can relax.

Shimmy: Give them water.

Vella: Go get a grownup.

Nosson: I would ask my Mommy and Tatty if I could show their way.

Jonah: My Mommy and Daddy could help the stranger and my sister and brother can watch me.

The children created a tent for Rivkah replete with clouds, candles and challos – the three things that returned to the tent when Yitzchak married Rivkah.

This week the Kindergarteners were in for a real treat. Even though no camels were present (like Eliezer’s camels!) they had fun playing with the animals in the visiting petting zoo. Thank you, CJP!

Parsha + Math

The children learned how Avraham bought Meoras Hamachpeila so he could bury his wife Sarah. A new business opened this week and customers are coming in droves. The Kindergarten store sells food, fruit and vegetables, cutlery and dishes all are on sales for reasonable prices. The children have priced all of the items quite reasonably and made cost signs for easy reference. They priced the vegetables at only 6c per vegetable, $15 per fruit, $4 per cutlery piece, and only $10 per cup or plate. The children counted out coins, practicing numbers and addition.

Kriyah – Reading

The Kindergarten Readers continued to practice combining letters with the Nekudos (vowels) Komatz and Patach this week.

Since the beginning of the year Kindergarten has reviewed each Alef Beis letter and learned the secret story behind each letter.  For example, the Alef consists of a Yud on top, a Yud on bottom and a Vov in between. This symbolizes Hashem Above and the Jew below connected by the Torah. And so on with each precious Hebrew letter. The children created a crayon rubbing of each letter and then illustrated it with their understanding of the secret of the letter. In the class’s ongoing project, the children are compiling this into a book. They have created the pages and will soon begin working on the cover.

Shabbat Shalom!

Morah Perline

We got this amazing desk in our classroom and the kids love to use it! I decided that we would use it for journal writing. I post a picture, the date and write a question the students can read. Each student has a blank journal in which they write the date and answer the question about the picture. This week our question is “What do you see.” The journals are great for letting them practice recognizing the date, writing and a great way for us to track their progress over the year.

We learned about place value this week. We will only be learning about the tens and the ones place this week. We built numbers with our cubes, write them in the tens and ones columns and even wrote in expanded notation. As we were learning about place value, I realized that we needed to work on number formation. We really enjoyed using shaving cream on trays to practice writing our numbers!

In reading we have focused on comprehension this week. I have read a lot of stories and asked a lot of questions. We also read a lot of Amelia Bedelia. This gave us an opportunity to discuss the double meaning of some words and common expressions. We made our sight word flash cards with pretty stickers to make it more fun. We finished the week talking about character traits and to tie in with the Parsha with this week we made bracelets with words that we think describe us.

Good Shabbos!

Morah Kristina

Dear Kindergarten Parents of the Purple Room,

Literacy

Komatz Pey says ‘poh’, patach Ayin says ‘ah’. Literacy is integrated into every activity, craft and game.

Continuing the theme of transportation from last week, Kindergarten followed directions for how to make an airplane and afterwards decorated them with combinations of Hebrew letters with nekudos (vowels). It is suspected that many flights were cancelled this week at Sky Harbor so that the Kindergarten fleet of Komatz-Patach-Kriyah (Reading) planes could safely land their aircraft in the CJP airport. 

Creating Goop was such Sensory fun especially when used to create Hebrew letter and Nekuda combinations.

Song: (link to tune: https://www.chabad.org/603248)

Three Malochim (Angels)

From North to South, from East to West
Avrohom’s ohel (tent) was open to guests
Three malochim (angels) were sent
Each to do something different

A son you will have, Sara was told
She laughed and said, "I’m too old,"
The next malach came to destroy S’dom
The third came to heal Avrohom

Chorus:

Avrohom ran to the malochim
To be machnis orchim (welcome guests). 2x

From North to South, from East to West, Avraham’s tent was always open to guests. Kindergarten experimented with a toothpick compass and found that it always made its way to point North no matter which direction it was pointing to when it was placed. They learned that the earth’s magnetic field will always pull the compass to the North direction.

Parsha Discussions:

What are some of the things you’ve done to help somebody who is sick?

Jonah: “Sing ‘Refuah Shelaima’ to them.”

Vella: “Read them a book. In a book one of the persons was sick and a boy brought them flowers and read them a story.”

Shimmy: “If they want a toy, just give it to them.”

Nosson: “A candy. But only for after.”

Shimmy: “A vitamin.”

Vella: “I have vitamins every single night. I have two vitamins every single night. A probiotic and I don’t know.”

Jonah: “Give them medicine. Only when they’re sick.”

Vella: “Give them a toy. But not yours because I’ll touch it and get sick.”

The Kindergarten were perfect hosts: they created an invitation for the Blue Room to invite them to join Kindergarten for a snack in the Kindergarten ohel (tent) and served them freshly cut oranges and offered them the best seats in the tent. They truly fulfilled the mitzvah of hachnosas orchim with generous hearts and much care and consideration of their guests’ needs.

This week’s Parsha teaches the valuable lesson of being Thankful to Hashem. The Kindergarten have been creating many pages in their Thankful to Hashem book. You are welcome to come take a look.

The children learned about the brochos we say before we eat a food to thank Hashem for the food they are about to eat in addition to thanking Hashem after we have eaten. Playing ‘Set the Visitor’s Tray’ and brochos Lotto were only some of the brochos games the Kindergarten students enjoyed this week.

Thank you!

Kindergarten presented a personalized thank you card to Mr. Hendsell (father of Ronan in the Blue Room) who has helped our playground be kept in such wonderful condition.

Kriyah (Reading) Homework

This has been the first complete week the Kindergarten has received homework and the students are trying hard to remember that the Kriyah binder (Reading binder) must live in their backpacks and may only come out for reading time, then must be returned immediately to their backpacks. Their reading is really astounding and doing so well in Kriyah. High five to them all!

Shabbat Shalom!

Morah Perline

From Morah Kristina:

This week the students got to pick what we were studying meaning every day had a different theme. It was so much fun!

Monday we started with Vella’s pick. She wanted to study math. We learned about ten frames and played a memory game matching ten frame to the correct number. We also learned about number racks and made our own to use in class for addition practice.

Tuesday was Jonah’s pick and we studied words. We learned about rhyming words and played a memory game where we matched the CVC word to the correct rhyming CVC word. We also played a round of sight word bingo.

Wednesday we studied Ben’s topic of oceans.  We learned about the 3 levels of the ocean and the differences in those levels. We made our own levels with water and food coloring in jars. After the children all got a chance to try to match the colors.  We also made an art project of the 3 levels and labeled them.

Thursday was Nosson’s day. He wanted to learn about art. We learned about realistic, pointillism, and abstract art. We looked at an example of all the types of art. We looked at A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Seurat for our pointillism and talked abut why it took over 2 years to finish. We examined the picture with a magnifying glass to see the dots. We looked at Kadinsky’s Sqaures with Concentric Circles to discuss modern art. We tried our hand at making all three kinds of art.

For Friday Shimmy picked butterflies. Our lessons will focus on the butterfly life cycle and making our own life cycle. We will talk about symmetry and match cards of butterfly wings together. After reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar our craft will be a caterpillar and butterfly.

Good Shabbos!

Morah Kristina

Dear Kindergarten Parents of the Purple Room,

The Kindergarten Readers are proud to announce the adoption of another nekuda (vowel): patach! They now know how to blend letters with komatz (oh) and patach (ah).

Kriyah (Hebrew reading) was integrated into Parsha this week through reading the Parsha words: lech (go), Eretz C’na’an (the land of Canaan), Eretz Yisrael (the Land of Israel) and kochavim (stars). Even though the children haven’t learned all the nekudos yet they are able to read many words through sounding out the letters.

The Kindergarten Readers searched and found different Alef Beis letters that make the same sound and installed them in matching kochavim. They discovered that there are even three letters with the same sound! They are Samech, Sin and Sof!

Sensory writing: Practicing combining letters with nekudos was super fun this week when writing them in shaving cream.

Fine Motor Coordination: The Kindergarten Readers worked with wire this week and created a combination of a letter of their choice combined with the komatz vowel. Come see their work displayed proudly in the classroom. They worked independently and used their muscles to cut the wire with special wire cutters.

One focus of this week’s Parsha was on the bracha (blessing) Avraham received from Hashem when he was promised descendants as many as the stars in the sky and the sand of the sea. In Dramatic Play the children dressed up as Avraham and Sarah. They followed the ‘cloud’ and copied the leader without question just as Avraham followed the cloud of Hashem. (Please see CJP Fb page. To try to understand how great the bracha was that Hashem promised Avraham, the children created telescopes to take home and peer through at night and try to count the stars. As well, they tried to count the grains of sand from the playground starting with only a few pinches they glued. Too many to count!

Song: (link to tune: https://www.chabad.org/603243)

A Small Boy Of Three
When Avrom was a small boy of three
He looked at the stars and the sea
He thought the Creator was in the sky
The sun or the moon so high

But after each one in its time did set
He knew there was someone greater yet
Then he understood, and was filled with love
He knew Hashem Echod was above

Parsha Discussions:

What’s the first question you ask when your dad or mom says, “Come on, let’s go?”

Shimmy: Are we going into a deep tunnel?

Nosson: Why do we have to go?

Jonah: Where are we going right now?

Ben: Why?

Vella: I would just go.

What questions did Avram ask Hashem? None. He just followed Hashem’s cloud.

Avram was so careful not to allow his sheep to eat grass that belonged to others. What can we learn from this?
Ben: Our dogs don’t know mitzvas.

Shimmy: Not to steal toys.

Vella: Just buy a dog or a cat and put a thing (muzzle) on them.

Nosson: Not steal.

Jonah: Buy the same toy as you like.

The children know that they shine a special light into the world all unique to themselves. After reinforcing coordination and fine motor skills, cutting a star shape, the Kindergarten Kochavim wrote and/or drew about their own special light they shine onto our world.

Shabbat Shalom!

Morah Perline

This week we reviewed the water cycle. My plans to make a hanging art project was turned into water cycle hats by the children. Building on our lessons about the water cycle, kindergarten learned about types of clouds this week. We practiced making clouds with shaving cream and poly-fil. For the children it seemed like a fun and messy way to learn about clouds, but we were also practicing following directions and writing out letters. The creativity in making a nimbus was cloud was so fun to watch!

We made our own abacus this week. During the process we talked about patterns and practiced counting out items. We also practiced identifying which amount is greater than, less than, or equal to using dominoes. This also allowed us to put our dominoes in orders of least to greatest and vice versa. Dominoes are a great way for us to talk about doubles!

Our story this week was about a sad cat. This story will come home today with your child. We practiced reading the story taking turns and in choral reading. We used the words from the story to make our sentences and practice thinking about punctuation at the end of a sentence. We learned that a period is for a statement, a question mark is for a question and an exclamation point is for excitement. We also learned this week that a sentence always starts with a capital letter. This week I also started assessing students on reading ability. I will be working with each student every Wednesday on independent reading at their level.

This will be our final week working on our city with boxes. The imagination and creativity is amazing to watch.

Next week we will add sight words to our daily work. Our sight words next week will be we, you, he and she.

Good Shabbos!
Morah Kristina

Dear Kindergarten Parents of the Purple Room,

This has been a milestone week for the Kindergarteners and their Hebrew Literacy has jumped to a new level. They learned the first vowel, Komatz, which says ‘uh’. “Komatz Alef uh.” The Komatz takes the open mouth position and closes it. Ask your Kindergartener to show you how. The Kindergarten Readers have attached the Komatz under every Alef Beis letter to combine letter and vowel and then read them together. In fact, because this week’s Parsha of Noach discusses water and lots of it, the Kindergarten Readers fished in a large container filled with water for Alef Beis letter seashells and attached the Komatz to the shells. Kriyah is so much fun! (Please see the CJP Facebook page.)

Parshat Noach song (here’s the link: https://www.chabad.org/603210)

The people watched Noach while he hammered aw nay
He worked on the teivah [ark] night and day
Hashem told him to do it, so people would ask
"What are you building, It’s a hard task."

Noach explained that teshuvah [mend your ways] you must do
There are many bad things around us, it’s true
Hashem wants to destroy the world in which we live
Only through teshuvah, will Hashem forgive

The people didn’t listen, they didn’t understand
Then down came the rain throughout the land
Forty days and nights the mabul [flood] came down
But Noach and his family did not drown!

Kindergarten discussed making choices, making good choices and those that are kind to others. To that end, the Kindergarten read a sign that has been hung in pride of place in their Home Center which reads ‘Ahavas Yisroel’ (loving another as you love yourself) as a reminder to make choices founded on this principle, a basic principle of our Torah. Kindergarten is proud to be able to read this sign and sound out the letters.

The Kindergarteners created their own teiva (ark) separating the people, food, animals and rubbish on the same floors (1st, 2nd and 3rd) as Noach did. (Please see the CJP Facebook page.) The Kindergarten Parsha Experts learned about the rainbow this week and prepared rainbow colored dough for the Preschool to create rainbow Challahs. Yum!

Shabbat Shalom!

Morah Perline

From Morah Kristina:

The timing of the big puddle on the playground was perfect for our lessons on sink or float! We started the week talking about what a prediction is and making predictions about which items would sink or float. We learned the word buoyancy and tried making boats with corks, wax paper and foil to experiment with weight and buoyancy. We also learned about Archimedes and water displacement, and the water cycle. We read a few stories this week about the water cycle. We practiced identifying  real pictures of precipitation, run off, infiltration, accumulation, transpiration, evaporation and condensation. We used yarn and cotton balls to illustrate the water cycle. The students did a great job!

Our class learned the difference between cardinal and ordinal numbers and practiced by talking about the seven days of creation. We played a matching game for the ordinal number and what was created. We also sorted animals that live on land, air and water. We played memory requiring the students to match up different animals that live in the same place. We practiced counting by tens and counting by tens starting at random numbers.

Our story this week was about Sam and fish at the pond. This story will come home today with your child. We practiced reading the story taking turns and in choral reading. We also completed a book project where we illustrated the story. We used the words from the story to make our sentences and introduced the concept of punctuation at the end of a sentence. We learned that a period is for a statement, a question mark is for a question and an exclamation point is for excitement.

We will close out the week reading Roxaboxen again building a city with boxes and learning about directions and maps. We will also talk about what is important to have in a city.

Next week we will add sight words to our daily work. Our sight words next week will be the, are, see and like. I believe in spiraling the lessons we work on in class. Next week, we will continue to talk about cardinal and ordinal numbers, counting by ten, the water cycle and maps and directions.

Good Shabbos!
Morah Kristina

Dear Kindergarten Parents of the Purple Room,

The Kindergarteners absorbed the holiness and excitement of the many Jewish Holidays of Tishrei. They enjoyed taking out their instruments to accompany the many Yom Tov songs they learned and insisted they be recorded for their parents to see. (Please see the CJP Facebook page).

Literacy has been integrated in the exploration of all the Jewish Holidays. Each holiday has its collection of vocabulary that the children decoded, increasing their fluency and recognition of letters in both Alef Beis and ABC. They took great pride in being able to independently sound out the many words they wrote in their Machzorim (High Holiday prayer books) for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.

Sukkos followed hot on the heels of Yom Kippur but the Kindergarten Builders lost no time in building a Sukkah themselves. The Kindergarteners used the Alef Beis letters and blocks to discover the secret of the Hebrew word ‘Sukkah’. Looking at the very letters of the Hebrew word ‘Sukkah’ explains what constitutes a kosher Sukkah– the first letter, samech with its four sides, tells of four walls; the second letter ‘kaf’ with its three sides, tells of three walls; and the last letter ‘hey’ allows for two and a bit walls.

The Kindergarten Builders then had a planning session to discuss how best to build their Sukkah, from deciding who would stand where, who would hold what, where to get the schach from to cutting the schach and putting it on the Sukkah themselves. They learned that a kosher Sukkah must have the walls built first before the schach is put on. The Kindergarten Builders completed their Sukkah with decorations for the walls. The Kindergarteners created their own original Sukkah decorations that that enhanced any Sukkah including CJP’s Sukkah! (Please see the CJP Facebook page).

The Kindergarteners got straight into the swing of things right after Simchat Torah learning about very first Parsha of the Torah – Parsha Beraishis. They learned how Hashem created the world and what He created on each day. They learned that even though Hashem didn’t need any time at all to create the world he chose to create it in six days through speech. Seeing how powerful speech can be taught the children how careful we must be when we use words.

They have been singing the ‘Creation’ Song (see this link for the tune https://youtu.be/w5qBnlKFQFs) and created a ‘Creation Dial’:

On Yom Rishon [Day 1] there was light
Hashem created day and night.
On Yom Sheini [Day 2] from the Torah we know
The shamayim [heaven] showed.

On Yom Sh'lishi [Day 3] the earth and seas
Flowers, grass and all fruit trees
On Yom R'vee'ee [Day 4], moon stars and sun
To bring light for everyone

And on Yom Chamishi [Day 5]
Birds that fly and fish of the sea.
On Yom Shishi [Day 6], Hashem did create
Animals, Adam and his mate.

Yom Sh'vee'ee [Day 7], Hashem's day of rest
Shabbos Kodesh, we love best.
Hashem made the world and to show it's true
The Mitzvos of Shabbos we do.

The Kindergarteners will be stepping up the Kriyah [Hebrew reading] program and, being that they are the oldest class, will begin with Kriyah homework every night. They are very excited to be so ‘grown up’ to be getting homework! Beginning next week each child will be assigned daily reading pages to be done each night for homework, signed by a parent and returned to school the next day. Stay tuned for more details!

Shabbat Shalom!
Morah Perline

This week in Kindergarten we focused on Consonant-Vowel-Consonant words. We made words using different manipulatives and sounded them out to identify if they were real words or nonsense words. We also practiced identifying a consonant and a vowel.

We practiced adding sums up to 12 using dominoes. We took turns adding our dots and matching to the correct number. We practiced matching a specific number of items with a memory game where we matched the cardinal number to the amount of fall leaves. This game also helped us practice counting up from ten.

Talking about Parsha Bereishis we learned about cardinal and ordinal numbers. We talked about the seasons and the season of fall. We practiced color matching and a discussed how a color can have different hues. We learned about different types of land and water. We also learned about the parts of a tree and made our own fall tree to label.

As a class we love to build! We read a book this week called Roxaboxen and next week we will be building our own city. The class loves to be read too. When we read a book we discuss if it is fiction or non-fiction, who are the main characters and what we think will happen next. 

Morah Kristina

Dear Purple Kindergarten Parents,

Rosh Hashana is the new year! And the Kindergarten children know ALL about that! They know the most important mitzvah of the Jewish Holiday is to hear the shofar ‘loud and clear’. You can hear them sing many of the songs in their Rosh Hashana repertoire on the CJP Facebook page, accompanied by their instruments and Mr. Guitar. They can identify the three sounds the shofar blows as they have depicted in their Machzor (High Holidays prayer book). Working diligently on their own machzor, the Kindergarten Writers expressed their personal requests of Hashem by sounding out the words and transcribing them onto pages of their Machzor. They will try to remember to take their Machzor to and from shul on Rosh Hashana.

The Kindergarten Friends had many good wishes to express to others but alas! only one page was allotted for this in their Machzor.  Ask your Kindergartener to show you his/her thoughtful wish for a friend (or, as in one case, for a Morah!).

Reinforcing Alef Beis Literacy, the Kindergarteners identified the letters in many Rosh Hashana words: Shana Tova, Machzor, Shofar, to name but a few.

In keeping with the Rosh Hashana mitzva of Shofar, this week the Kindergarten Artists painted a still life of the shofar.

The Kindergarteners went on a ‘Tashlich Walk’ in preparation for the real Tashlich Walk on Rosh Hashana. They sang their Tashlich song as they went. You can hear them sing it on the CJP Facebook group. Morah Perline is looking forward to joining with the Kindergarteners on Rosh Hashana for the Tashlich Walk in Desert Breeze Park at 5:30 pm on Monday, September 10. Come and join!

Questions abounded when the Kindergarten Kids walked into class on Wednesday and saw streamers, birthday signs and heard the Happy Birthday song playing. Whose birthday is it? they wanted to know. Kindergarten celebrated the world’s birthday this week on 25th of Elul (which coincided this year with September 5), wore birthday masks, sang Happy Birthday to the world and learned to their shock that the world is ‘SOOOOOO OLD!’. They know that the world is now 5,779 years old. The Kindergarten Kids can recite all the 12 months of the Jewish year and know that we are presently in the month of Elul which is coming to an end. But Tishrei is coming and that month is FULL of wonderful Jewish Holidays!

The Kindergarten Parsha Whizzes know that the Parsha of the week, Nitzavim, is always read just before Rosh Hashana because Nitzavim means ‘standing firm’. They have been practicing ‘standing firm’ every time they hear the word ‘Nitzavim’. We are standing firm before Hashem on Rosh Hashana in the sure knowledge that Hashem will give us a good sweet new year. Try it out with your child. Say ‘Nitzavim’ and see what happens!

Please refer to the CJP Facebook group for a pictorial display of some of this week’s learning.

Wishing you and your family a Ketiva V’chatima Tova, L’shana Tova U’metuka – may you be written and sealed for a sweet new year!

Shabbat Shalom!

Morah Perline

The Kindergarten Writers have been working on their Machzor for Rosh Hashana this week. They are taking this time in the Jewish month of Elul to reflect on their year and make resolutions for the new year. They entered their personal thoughts on this in their machzor and ask Hashem to help them achieve success. Jonah resolved to help his friends clean.

Mr. Guitar (aka Mrs. Perline’s guitar) has taken up permanent residence in the classroom and now makes a regular appearance with the Kindergarten Singers. This week, Mr. Guitar was led in song by Nosson when he brought in an old favorite, ‘Darkecho’. The Singers have been learning many Rosh Hashana songs and, with the help of Mr. Guitar,  been practicing differentiating between the different blasts the Shofar makes.

Thank you to Mrs. Lvov, Ben’s and Shimmy’s mother, for bringing in a different type of shofar for the children to explore. Mrs. Lvov explained that this very long shofar is a Yemenite shofar and it comes from Israel. The children felt the heaviness of the shofar and were amazed that the ram could carry two such heavy ‘horns’ on its head. After exploring the shofar the Kindergarteners noticed a few differences between the shofars:

Vella: soft and hard, Jonah: different,

Nosson: tough and smooth,

Ben: smooth and hard,

Shimmy: more soft and bumpy.

The children were very impressed when Mrs. Lvov actually, and expertly, blew the shofar!

Hygiene: The children know to scrub their hands with soap and count out the required 20 seconds. Shimmy would rather sing one of his favorite songs, ‘Hashem gave us a present’, instead of counting and, after timing the song, found that it takes exactly 20 seconds to sing it!

It was exciting for the Kindergarteners to learn in this week’s Parsha about the 7 Kinds Israel is famous for. They had fun searching the classroom for the 7 Kinds and then leading a ‘procession’ to ‘Yerushalayim’ to bring their first fruits (Bikurim) to Hashem. Vella was the first to notice all the red strings around the room and wondered why they were there. Ask your Kindergartener for the explanation.

Please refer to the CJP Facebook group for a pictorial display of some of this week’s learning.

Wishing you and your family a Ketiva V’chatima Tova, L’shana Tova U’metuka – may you be written and sealed for a sweet new year!

Morah Perline