Kabbalat Shabbat, challah making, science and more!
Dear Kindergarten Families,
We had a week full of learning and fun events. We hope you enjoyed watching our Kabbalat Shabbat ceremony! Have fun re-watching with your child with this link: https://animoto.com/play/0gSgsZakDzD1XI4taaJ0Dg.
In Math, we began our unit on Subtraction. We practiced making up subtraction stories, asking mathematical questions and learning how to turn them into number sentences (4-3=1). We also learned how to make a number sentence out of a “how many more?” problem. We learned how to look at pictures of items and compare which one has more and write a number sentence to describe the problem.
In English Language Arts, we began our Non-fiction/Informational writing unit. We wrote science books titled “Who Am I?” The children chose an animal and wrote a book giving clues about the animal. You can enjoy reading our books on the bulletin board outside the classroom!
During the week, we learned about oo words (as in “book” or “cool”) . We learned how to read and write words with this pattern.
In Social Studies, we continued our City Block Unit. We learned about restaurants. We created our own menus and learned about the different jobs that need to happen at a restaurant. We then played charades and role played working at a restaurant which helped us develop our vocabulary about restaurant business and practice cooperating, writing, reading, counting and so much more! Next week, we will visit a real restaurant to learn the business from “inside.”
In Science, we continued our unit Exploring Plants and Animals. Every day, we observed our caterpillars and ladybugs, and recorded their metamorphosis on our observation calendar. In addition, we continued to observe our alfalfa seeds, pea seeds, and lima beans. We noticed how our plants are growing and recorded it on our observation sheets! We even got the chance to measure how tall our plants have grown. On Thursday, we learned about the life cycle of plants. We learned about how plants begin as seeds, grow roots as a sprouting seed, then become a seedling and maybe grow flowers, fruits or seeds.
In Hebrew and Judaics this week we celebrated Rosh chodesh Sivan ( the first day of the Hebrew month of Sivan. We sang Halel song and marked our Omer chart, almost completing to the 49th day which is the Chag Shavuot. We discussed the story of Shavuot in which G-d gave the jewish people the Torah. The children wrote Hebrew letters just like writing the Torah. We learned that on Shavuot people learn Torah all night , people also decorate their house with flowers and eat dairy food. Children practiced forming sentences using the verb “ohev/ohevet (like) describing the dairy food they like: “Ani ohev pizza” ( i like pizza), Ani ohev glida (I like icecream) ,
Ani Ohevet yogurt” (I like yogurt). We sang songs such as “Torah Torah” and the spring song “Parparim”. We practiced for our Kabbalat Shabbat play and completed our beautiful Shabat boxes and Shabat books. The children were very excited to see all of you at Kabbalat shabbat this morning.
Have a great weekend!
Shabbat Shalom and Hag Sameah!
Regina, Rachel, Irit and Ilana
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Experimenting with what floats and what sinks
Building intricate mazes with dominoes
Planting in our kindergarten garden with Lisa and Anne
Rachel’s family were our Mystery Guests and taught us a lot about medicine, our human body and reflexes!
Learning about subtraction in Math
Role playing and learning about restaurants
Alona’s mom was teaching us about how movies are made!
Galia’s mom was teaching us about architecture!
We loved baking our own challah for Kabbalat Shabbat!
Observing, measuring and recording information about our growing plants in science!
Art with Iviva:
After two weeks of painting with watercolors, this week we learned about mixing colors with tempera paint. Some of us already knew that red, yellow and blue are primary colors. We explained to our friends that you can mix pretty much all other colors with combinations of primary colors.
We tried it for ourselves, mixing red and white to make pink; red and blue to make purples; and yellow and blue to make greens.
Look for some of our watercolor paintings on the bulletin board in the hallway heading to our classrooms.