Parshas Emor

Click link below for more info on Parsha:
http://www.torahtots.com/parsha/vayikra/emor2.htm


Click link below for nice song on Parsha:
http://www.chabad.org/kids/article_cdo/aid/608122/jewish/Emor.htm


This weeks parsha talks about 5 different holidays.
Being that we already learned about the holidays as we approached them during the year, we played "Kids on Stage" instead of using our usual puppets and props to tell the stories. The friends got turns to come up, look at a picture of a holiday, and act it out. The other friends needed to guess what the friend was doing and which holiday it was. They were super at it.

Excitments of the week

                                Look at our little garden! Radish and sweet pea had sprouted!  

On Tuesday, friends visited the Mazel Juice Bar. Delicious! 

 Our caterpillars had turned into chrysalises. It is time to transfer them into the butterfly house.

Day on the beach! What can be better!

On the third day of creation Hashem created the land.  We learned that  the biggest parts of land is called a continent. There are seven continents on the Earth- North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and Antarctica.
There are different kinds of land. Some land is flat; we call it a plain or valley. Some land is made of rocks; we call it a mountain. Some land is made of sand; we call it desert. A land that is surrounded by water is called an island.

What is land made up of? Rocks, soil, and sand... We took some soil from our school backyard to see what it is made of. There we found sand, little rocks, and humus. What is humus?  Earth worms that live in the soil eat parts of dying plants and animals making them into humus - an important part of soil that contains food for growing plants. You say- yicky, we say- science!

 We also learned that rocks are a part of land, they can be different in many ways. Some rocks are too big to hold it in our hands. A rock can be as big as a mountain.

Other rocks are so small that we can hold thousands of them at once, thousands of grains of sand. It  start as larger rocks, which are broken down to the grains of sand as rivers carry them down stream.

Our World-- Water II

This week friends learned that the earth has small amount of water.  That water keeps going around and around and around and around. We call it the "Water Cycle".
This cycle is made up of a few main parts:

• evaporation
• condensation
• precipitation

Evaporation is when the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam. The water vapor or steam goes into the air.
Water vapor in the air gets cold and gets together forming clouds. This is called condensation. Check our youtube postings with friends performing "Water Cycle" song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFXZwO-NOsg&feature=relmfu    

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMi0Jj3SwJE     

During the Rain Walk, friends observed three steps of Water Cycle: condensation, precipitation and collection in forms of puddles and big water body- ocean.

When the sun strikes falling raindrops rainbow appears. To memorize rainbow colors, Sophie taught friends a rainbow song:

Red, yellow, orange,

green followed blue,

indigo and violet

This is rainbow song for you.

Precipitation occurs when so much water has condensed that the air cannot hold it anymore.  The clouds get heavy and water falls back to the earth in the form of rain, hail, or snow.

Excitments of the week!

On Monday,  Pre-K Friends visited one of their favorite places- GYM!

On Tuesday, friends made a special chocolate Happy Birthday cake for Mordechai Yisroel.

Same day, friends went on Rain Walk and dreamt about "If all the raindrops were lemon drops and gum drops. Oh, what a rain it would be."  

On Wednesday, friends planted a garden. We planted potatoes, radish, sweat peas and flowers seeds. 

                           On Thursday, friends prepared special ABC Party treat- Watermelon Ice:)

And finally ABC Party!!!

Parshas Acharei Mos Kedoshim

Click here for more info on the Parsha:
Acharei Mos- http://www.torahtots.com/parsha/vayikra/acharei2.htm
Kedoshim- http://www.torahtots.com/parsha/vayikra/kedosh2.htm

Click here for a nice song on the Parsha:
http://www.chabad.org/kids/article_cdo/aid/608118/jewish/Kedoshim-I.htm
http://www.chabad.org/kids/article_cdo/aid/608119/jewish/Kedoshim-II.htm

There are many mitzvos written in this parsha. The one we focused on was the mitzva of "Kibud Av Va'em"- "Honoring our Mother and Father." This includes as well the mitzva of respecting and honoring all people in general whether they are older or younger than us.

Some friends gave scenarios of how they can be or are respectful to they're parents and others:
Liza- When Mommy sleeps I don't talk.
Naomi- Not to wake up people when they sleep.
Menny- I woke up my Tatty because he said I could.
Ari- Playing with Benjamin so my Mommy doesn't wake up.
Sophie- I get off my bed quietly and close the door when I watch TV when my Mom sleeps.

Letter Raish

Raish is quite an easy letter. It has one little line on top and one little line coming down. 

Rachel, Naomi Rachel, and Emma Rose begin with letter Raish

Rakevet (train) begins with Raish. 

David is making Rakevet tracks on letter Raish.

Loading our rakevet (train)with Alef Beis passengers.

Happy Birthday Mordechai Yisroel!

Mazel Tov to our dearest friend Mordechai Yisroel who turned  5 years old!!!

Friends and Morahs wished Mordechai Yisroel to be healthy, to have a lot of friends, to learn Torah and to have plenty of lollipops and cakes!

Pre-K's Mazel Tov to Mordechai Yisroel parents! May you have only simcha from him. Thank you so much for your generous gifts to our class and party bags to Pre-K friends.

Parshas Tazriah Mitzorah

Click below for more info on the Parsha:
Tazriah- http://www.torahtots.com/parsha/vayikra/tazria2.htm
Mitzorah- http://www.torahtots.com/parsha/vayikra/metzora2.htm

Click below for a nice song on the Parsha:
http://www.chabad.org/kids/article_cdo/aid/608109/jewish/Tazria.htm

Letter Koof

This week Mickey brought us the letter Koof. It has one little line on top, one little line coming down, and one big line on the other side. Dont get confused with the letter Hay and Koof. The hay has a little line and the koof has a big line.

Kiddush begins with letter Koof

Excitements of the week

 On Monday, all Mazel Day School gathered together in synagogue to celebrate beginning of new month- Iyar. The month of Lag Baomer and Shavuos! Morah Chanie called one friend from each grade. Friends shared with all school what they are thankful for. Eliana represented our class and she said that she is thankful for her family. Good answer, Eliana!  

On Thursday, friends visited the Prospect Park Zoo as an ideal review of the lesson about kosher

and not kosher animals and future lessons about animals. Friends have discovered a nice addition to the Zoo- two beautiful Australians- Dingos.

Five tiny caterpillars arrived in a small jar in our classroom. 

Friends will get a chance to observe a miracle of metamorphosis.

Our World - Water

What Hashem created on second day? Water!

What do friends know about water? Friends said that we drink water.

 It is true, people can't live without water even few days.

Animals and plants- all living things- need water. 

Morah said that water gives us the fastest way to cool off, the fastest way to get clean.

 In the class, we learned about water properties - smell, color, shape. Friends discovered that water has the smell of fresh cool water. It doesn't have any shape. Water takes shape of any container it is in. When we poured it in a cup, it took shape of a cup. When we poured it in a vase, it took shape of vase.  Water doesn't have any color but a spoon of coffee will make it brown, a drop of yellow food coloring  will turn it yellow. 

 Other important property of water is that it likes to stick to everything. It stick to us and make us wet, it stick to our clothes and makes it wet. Water loves to make things wet.

 Next week, Pre-K friends will learn about where water comes from, about water cycle and different matters, and rainbow:)

Our World - Light (II)

This week friends continued to learn about properties of the light.

Friends learn that light travels in straight lines and it goes everywhere; it goes through things that are transparent. Transparent means clear or see through. Such things like glass, window, water, even some plastic are transparent. The light could be blocked by opaque things. Walls, doors, blocks, books, people are opaque. When light is blocked by an opaque object it stops. An opaque object forms a shadow.

Friends learned that position of the shadow depends on position of the sun. If sun is in front of us, shadow is behind. If sun is behind us, shadow is in front.