Nursery Class 2015-2016: November 2015

Friday, November 20, 2015

F and Thanksgiving and Gimmel

Thanksgiving

This week to properly prepare for Thanksgiving, we revisited the topic of 'All About Me'. We each have different names and look different from one another, yet there are also some similarities. Writing our names, finding our English and Hebrew names on the board, and illustrating what our favorite things are about ourselves were a fun way to start the week. Choosing a pre-cut shape of a boy, girl, mom, and dad helped us put together the different people in our families. Wow, do we have so much to be thankful for! In the spirit of being thankful and to prepare for Chanukah, we decorated a box for gifts to be dropped off in front of our class. Presents will go to children in need for the holiday.

Gimmel is for Glida

We are up to the third letter in the Alef-Bet! Gimmel makes a hard G sound and we learned ice cream in Hebrew is called Glida! We decorated our large Gimmel with lots and lots of scoops of Glida.

F is for Fire

Last week we walked around the school to find ‘EXIT’ signs. This week we began with a small match. After striking it, we observed the differ-ent colors a fire has. Blue at its center red, yellow, and orange above that. In Hebrew fire is called, ‘Aish’, and we know not to touch it. We discussed some pros and cons to a fire. What is safe and what is not. A fire can keep us warm, and can help us bake, cook and bar-b-q. We also use fire to light Shabbat and Chanukah candles. In order to keep our homes safe we must have smoke detectors. If there is smoke, it will ‘detect’ the smoke and sound off, ‘beep, beep, beep!’ We went to see the fire hydrant on 3rd street. Just in case there is an emergency, a firefighter connects the hose to the pump and sprays out water. In order to get the firefighters to come we need to call 9-1-1. We only call if it is an EMERGENCY.

Stop, drop and roll are three things to do if our clothes catch fire. We

learned a fun song to those words and enjoyed practicing it as well!

STOP!

DROP!

ROLL!

Fun Photos from the Week!

Have a wonderful weekend and Shabbat Shalom!

Shabbat Candle lighting time is 4:16.

Please continue to send in Mitzvah Notes and Tzedaka.

Your child's rest time bag was sent home, please wash it over the weekend and send it back to school on Monday.

Looking forward to seeing you all Monday night at PTA.
(Picture below with time slots)

Love,
Morah Mushka, Gitti, and Dini

Friday, November 13, 2015

E and Shabbat

Shabbat
What an exciting week we had this week in the Nursery class, we were learning and preparing for Shabbat all week long! We reviewed the Torah story about how Hashem created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th. To commemorate that we do special things on Shabbat. We light candles to bring in Shabbat, sing special Shabbat prayers, make a Bracha on Kiddush, and spend time with our families and friends. We learned a new song to sing at our Friday night Shabbat dinner. Using markers we decorated crowns and can't wait to sing for you all! We baked special oatmeal chocolate chip cookies for dessert and even got to sample some. Looking forward to seeing you all tonight!

Reviewing 7 days of creation

Sivan's page in our class book: My Favorite part of Shabbat is...

Sampling the cookies :)

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This week we learned about the largest animal that lives on land, the elephant. An elephant has no fingers or toes. Its’ large ears act as fans to cool itself off in the heat of the grasslands. The white tusks on the side of its mouth are made of ivory. The trunk is like a giant fork and straw. It slurps up water, picks up food and then brings it to its mouth. The trunk also acts as a nose, which the elephant uses to smell for friends or danger. After learning all about the elephant we created our very own elephant hats. We stuffed stockings with paper for the trunk, painted plates grey, measured our heads .. we turned into elephants! The leader of the elephants is the grandmother, she is in charge. Morah acted like the grandma elephant and lead her herd in song. To prepare for next week’s topic of fire we walked around the school looking for all the school’s EXIT signs.