4's - Miss Deana Morah Raizel/Morah Estee

I hope you have all had a great few weeks! A HUGE thank you to Miss Jaelyn and Miss Marylou for all their hard work, while I have been healing. Our classroom has been filled with fun, exploration, movement, and exciting learning experiences! The children have been working on recognizing letters, numbers and colors through playful activities that encourage curiosity, confidence, and early learning skills.

The children tried using stencils.  Using stencils has given the children opportunities to explore shapes, letters, and creative designs. As they trace, draw, and experiment, they strengthen their fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and pencil control while expressing their creativity.

Yoga and music have been a class favorite lately. Through simple yoga poses and stretches, the children are learning to move their bodies, practice balance, and develop coordination. Yoga also encourages body awareness, focus, relaxation, and self-regulation in a fun and supportive environment. Music and dancing bring so much joy to our classroom! The children have been moving, shaking, clapping, and following different rhythms. Dancing supports gross motor development, listening skills, coordination, and self-expression while allowing everyone to participate and creativity, movement, and exploration.  

Judaic News:

This week we learned all about Noah’s Teva. The children brought in stuffed animals to add to their classroom play, they made a Teva puppet and added animal stickers all over them. We added boats and animals into kinetic sand, as well as our manipulative table. The children used water color to paint animals. Through these meaningful activities, the children strengthened their creativity, language, sensory awareness, and social-emotional skills while making connections to the story of Noah’s Teva. We had a wonderful time learning, playing, and exploring together.

I hope you have a restful Shabbos

FROM MORAH RAIZEL & MORAH ESTEE

What a great week it has been.  This week, we learned all about the story of Noach’s Teivah (Noah’s Ark).  We talked about the beautiful world that Hashem created in last week’s Torah portion and how wicked the people had become. The good news is there was a good man. His name was Noach!

Noach was a good man, good man, good man,

Noach was a tzaddik in his days.

The people all around him were wicked, wicked.

The people were so wicked, I’m sorry to say.

So Noach built a teivah, a teivah, a teivah,

Noach built a teivah for everyone to see.

And who do you think lived there, lived there, lived there,

Who do you think lived there? Noach’s family.

The rain came pouring, pouring, pouring, pouring.

The rain came pouring down for forty days and nights.

The teivah had three levels. The top level was for people and food, the middle for animals, and the bottom level was for garbage. The children learned that Noach was very busy all day and all night taking care of the animals.  After a long time, Hashem told Noach to leave the teivah.  Noach thanked Hashem for saving him and his family, and Hashem promised Noach that He would never again bring a flood and showed him a rainbow. Every time it rains and we see a rainbow in the sky, it is a sign that Hashem is keeping his promise.

Shabbat Shalom!