Parshas Noach

Now that we have finished learning all about all the holidays, we are onto learning different Torah portions of the week and the lessons the we can learn from them.

A model of the taiva- ark that kept Noach, his family, all the creatures, and their provisions safe during the year long flood.  

For more information on Parshat Noach refer to: http://www.chabad.org/parshah/default_cdo/aid/9168/jewish/Noach.htm

For a song for kids on Parshat Noach refer to:

http://www.chabad.org/kids/article_cdo/aid/603210/jewish/Noach.htm

Letter Daled

We learned the letter Daled. 

It has a big line on top, and a big line going down.  

We have 2 friends in our class who begin with the letter Daled.

David G.                                    David S.


We also learned 2 new words that begin with a Daled. 
Delet- door and  Dag- fish.
We pretended we were fishermen while having to catch the dag with the letter daled inside of it.

Show and Tell

The Show and Tell host this week was Liza. She showed friends her cute little monkey Simona. Liza said that Simona is her favorite toy and she likes to do everything with her. Simona is a gymnast. Liza demonstrated how Simona can swing on her tail, flip over and even make a bridge.
 http://prek5772.shutterfly.com/pictures#n_9

Next week Show and Tell host is Jason.

Important Messages

Dear Pre-K Parents,

Our class will be learning about fall season this upcoming week. On Monday, as  part of planned activities we will be going on a trip to the Prospect Park to see the fall foliage changing colors. Pre-K class will be leaving the school at 10:30AM and will return at 1:00 PM just in time for lunch. Dear parents, this is OUTSIDE trip. There for I am asking you to dress your children according to the weather conditions and condition of the ground after Shabbos snowing.

 This upcoming Thursday, November 3rd at 7pm Pre-K class will be hosting the Curriculum Night where you can learn more about class schedule, goals, and our daily life. Don't miss it! Refreshment is guaranteed!  

All About Me

Understanding how we are alike and different is essential to  development of children's intellectual and emotional abilities. The unit "All About Me" will help friends to learn more about themselves, their place in the world, and will give opportunities to explore many similarities and differences among themselves.

What makes us alike? We are all people. We are Jewish people. Every Jew is born with a special gift from Hashem- a Neshama, that makes us alike. But everyone has own neshama. It makes us different. What does mean "different"? There are some thoughts that friends shared. 

Different means to switch. (Rachel)

Different means to go away.( Naomi)

Different means to change yourself because you want to be different. (David G. and Mordechai Yisroel)

Different means when you take something and put it at different place. (Menny)

Morah said that different means "not the same".

 

We are all alike. We have bodies, it makes us alike. We have different color skin, this makes us different.

We have eyes, it makes us alike. But we have different eye color, it makes us different.

 Some of us are boys, some are girls. It makes us different. We all have Birthdays, but on different days. We have names, but they are all different. We learned that Jewish people get names on special days- girls on the day when Torah is read in shul, boys at 8th day from their birthday- on the day of Bris. Our names are very special. Some of us are named after our greatgrandparents or grandparents, some after Torah heroes. THe important thing we learned that people who we are named after are people who are very special and dear to us. All Pre-K Friends agreed that being different is a good thing.  It makes us special!   

Excitments of the week

This Friday we said Good Bye to Hebrew month Tishrei and welcomed a new month Cheshvan.

We  honored a new month by coming to school Rosh Hodesh Rally, saying a psukim

and having PIZZA for a lunch!

David G. and Menny constructed a ram.

Eliana made a square using two triangles

Another excitement is we got other Anole lizard.

We thought that the one that we had for while is all alone. That is why we decided to get it a friend.



This week we learned

The letter of this week was the letter H. What a surprise! We found out that all Ema's family share last name Honore that starts with the letter of the week. To make a letter we need two big lines and one little line.

The word "Honey" starts with the letter H

The word "Horses" starts with the letter H 

To review the letter H please visit http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/letter-h/load.htm?f 

Simchat Torah

Decorating flags to use when dancing with the Torah on Simchat torah.

Sukkos

Painting a Sukka model that we used in our classroom.

David and Naomi hard at work building a Sukka out of blocks.

Ema building a log Sukka.

Enjoying lunch in a different way by eating in the sukka. 

Shaking the lulav and estrog in all directions showing that Hashem is everywhere.

Gimmel Words and Fun

We learned that Gomel Chesed ( kind deeds) begins with the letter Gimmel. The Gimmel has shoes on its feet ready to do Mitzvos and kind things for others. 

       

We also learned 2 new Hebrew words that begin with the letter Gimmel.

Glidah =Ice cream and Gezer = Carrot

Later in the week we all enjoyed a glidah party in the Sukkah.

Letter Gimmel

We learned the letter Gimmel. 

Gimmel has one little line on the top, one big line coming down on the right side, and one little slanted line coming out of the big line.

The friends realized that we have no one in our class who's first name begins with the letter Gimmel, yet our friend David's last name begins with the letter Gimmel.

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Happy Birthday's Reminder

Dear Parents,
Fall is a very fruitful season in every term. In fall, there are more Happy Birthdays Parties than any other season.For your information there is a a reminder about class and school policy about Birthday Parties.
BIRTHDAY PARTIES IN PRE-K CLASS
Please be aware that we will schedule your child’s Hebrew BIRTHDAY PARTY in the class.  Our class friends will bake a delicious birthday cake for your child in school, so please do not send a cake from home.  Please send in a small bag with a Tzedakah coin for each friend in our class, as we will be giving Tzedakah in honor of your child’s birthday.
Feel free to visit our “Class Wish List” (http://www.mazeldayschool.com/Templates/Hebrewschool/article_cdo/aid/969989/jewish/PreK-Wish-List.htm) with age-appropriate games and books that you can purchase as a gift for our classroom in honor of your child’s birthday.  Such a gift is meaningful and will be savored by your child (and friends) for a long time to come!  Even thought our Pre-K Wish List is updated regularly, we would like you to confirm with us if a gift was not given to us before.

You know that this day is a special for your child. We would be more than happy to see all your family joining us in celebration. Everyone is invited! Please let us know in advance whether or not you will be coming.


BIRTHDAY PARTIES OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL

If you will be organizing a birthday party on the weekends either at home or at a party center, please note that invitations to a party outside of school may be distributed in school only if:

1) All the children in the class will be invited to the party (or all of the girls or all of the boys).  
2) The party is not planned to take place on Shabbos or Jewish holiday so that children whose families are Shabbos observant and who do not live within a walking distance from where the party will take place will be able to attend. This includes Friday night and Saturday afternoon until the time that Shabbos ends.  (The time is listed on any Jewish calendar.)
3) Kosher food will be provided at the party.  As a private affair, each parent can choose what type of food they would like to serve at their child’s party (whether Kosher, non-Kosher, Chalav Yisrael dairy products, Pas Yisrael baked products, etc.).  However, we ask that all school parents invited should please be informed as to what food is Kosher/non-Kosher at the party, as well as who provides the Kosher certification on the product.  This includes pizza, drinks, cake, snacks, etc.  This way, the parent of each child attending the party can make a decision about what foods their child may eat depending on their level of Kosher observance.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact us at morahinna@gmail.com
Thank you and may we share many happy occasions together.

Show and Tell

Last week Pre-K Friends started Show and Tell.  David S. surprised everyone with a model sukkah that he made together with his parents. David told friends that his father bought a shoe box, mom cut out a door and David decorated it with trees, flowers and butterflies. Friends were curious to find out what was a sukkah roof made of. Sophie guessed correctly it were straws. Great Job David!!! 

This coming Thursday Show and Tell host is Liza.  

It is a girl!!!

Mazel Tov to Okonov Family on the birth of the baby girl!

Mazel Tov to Menny on becoming a Big Brother!

Pre-K friends, their families and Morahs- wish the Okonov Family  lots of simcha from the baby and Menny!

Mazel Tov to Leon!!!

Mazel Tov to our friend Leon who turned 4 years old this Sukkos!

 Pre-K Friends and Morahs wish Leon to be healthy, smart and happy along with wishing him a Jewish planet, cupcakes, lollipops and chocolate cakes!   

All Pre-K friends and Morahs are thankful to Leon's parents for the great presents to our class.

Dear Permyak Family we were very happy to share with you such simcha!
May you have only naches from Leon! 

 

Letter Veis

The letter Veis has a little line on top, a little line coming down on the side (same side that we use our hand for shma), and a big line on the bottom.

The Veis and Beis look similar but there is something different about them.The Beis has a dot while the Veis does not.

                                                                                                                          

Yom Kippur

Eliana and Sophie doing a pre-play of Yom Kippur in our pretend Shul.

Ema making non- leather slippers.

Our friends being brave by touching the chickens used for Kapparos. :)

We learned that a boy chicken is called a rooster. It has a red crown and chin (wattle) and a girl chicken is called a hen.

Excitements of the week

Did you ever see a sandwich so big?

Morah Rivki told and showed us her college project- model classroom. 

Helping Eliana while making honey cake.

Opposite Day

One more time our Reward Jar got filled up with 77 mitzvah marbles:)

What is it time for? Time for a PARTY!

Time for the Opposite Party. We chose the day and decided to do everything opposite. But what does the word "OPPOSITE" mean? Some friends said it is time when we can wear white. Some friends said it is when you put left shoe on right foot and right shoe on left foot. Morah said that opposite means that something is completely different from one. For example, instead of saying to each other "Good Morning" we could say "Good Night", instead of walking forward we could walk opposite way - backward.   

Sophie wears "opposite colors". White and Black

One Leon's foot has a sock on, other don't - opposite:)

                                         What a fun was to hop opposite way of forward:)

To see more "opposite" pictures visit http://prek5772.shutterfly.com/pictures

Show and Tell

Pre-K friends have very very busy life. Every day they do something exciting. For example, on Monday they learn a new letter, on Tuesday they make a letter cookie, on Friday- there is Shabbos Party.  Thursday is Show and Tell. Friends are encouraged to bring something that belong to them. It can be their favorite book, a game, a toy, a pet or something they found on a walk, or something they made. It can be a picture of any occasion that was special for a kid.

Friends are going to take turns.
October 26th- Jason,
November 3rd- Liza

November 10th - Mickey
Please follow our Show and Tell posts to find out farther turns arrangements.

Wonder Time

Dear Parents, we happy to share with you that Pre-K Good Bye Circle is extended with small addition of "Wonder Time." Curious, like all human beings, Pre-K friends observe and soak in everything that happens around them making their own schema. The purpose of "Wonder time" is to encourage Pre-K friends to think and share their thoughts and knowledge.  We are going to keep you posted about questions we discuss during the week so you can talk about it at home.

This week, we discussed how do elephants use their trunks?

1. Elephants use their trunks to breath and smell, to push and pull things. 2. They use trunks to pick up food and put it into their mouth. 3. Elephants soak up water into their trunks and then blow it into the mouth as a drink or they blow it on themselves bathing. 4. They use their trunks to trumpet when they don't like something or scared.

This week we learned....

This week letter was the letter E.

Friends were excited to learn that Eliana's name, Ema's and her dad's name start with the letter E.

 To make the letter we need one big line and three little lines. The letter E helps us to learn positions : top, middle and bottom. It is not easy job to control little lines and their positions. What do we need? Practice!

So we practiced... by making the letter using some playdough.

...by writing the letter and decorating it with stickers.

We made sure to control number of little lines and their position.

To practice the sound "E" we coked some  E-E-EGGS!

To review and master the letter and its sound please visit

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/song-se/load.htm?f

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/letter-e/load.htm?f