Miss Deana & Morah Raizel 4's Class

FROM MISS DEANA 

Wow what a busy week we’ve had! We learned the letter “Gg”. Our Sign Language words are: grapes, games, and girl. During our morning circle we played “What’s Missing” using our name cards. Now that the children have played this game a few times we made it a little more difficult. Instead of 1 name card we took 2 or 3, which was a little more difficult. They couldn’t just focus on the color their name is on, they actually had to pay attention to the letters that are on them.

Purim is fast approaching! We finished working on our groggers, and now the children made 2 Shaloch Monos baskets. One for them and one for a friend. The children will draw a name out of a hat and that’s the person they will give to their friend. For the decorations they used crayons, markers, and fun Purim stickers. On Thursday we made hamentashen. Filled with red jelly and chocolate chips. The children did great flattening their dough and picking what they wanted inside. Some actually stayed in a triangle shape and some opened up, but needless to say the children had a great time.

On Wednesday, Miss Jaelyn played a Purim memory game that the children are really good at. Our Purim puppets are still the class favorites. They made a huge castle out of our big wooden blocks that the children named it “Shushan Town”. They use the puppets and our face blocks to be the people. I have to say the children are getting really good about accepting everyone’s ideas which is AMAZING and makes my teachers heart happy!

 I brought out some “magic” paint books. These are books that come with a water pen and once you start coloring,  the picture shows up. Not only are they fun, but  water magic books are excellent for children because they enhance fine motor skills, encourage creativity, and improve focus in preschoolers.

I hope you all have a restful Shabbos,