Pre Shavuos Activities

We had an extra special activity in honor of Shavuos. We decorated ice cream with all sorts of fun toppings!

We made our beautiful mountain book to go along with the "i am a mountain" song that we love to sing in honor of Shavuos.

 

We decorated covers for our  Torahs with shiny sequins and glue.

AS

butterflies!

How happy we were to see that our caterpillars had turned into butterflies when we came in one morning. We gave them oranges to eat and then took our butterflies outside and let them fly away.

Caterpillars!

We have three caterpillar friends in our classroom! Every day we observe them to see how they change. When they first arrived they were so tiny we could hardly see them . Then they ate and they grew bigger and bigger. We were fascinated by how much they grew over the weekend. Now they are all sleeping in their cocoons...We are eagerly waiting to see how they turn into butterflies.

EARTH, PLANTING AND SEEDS

Earth, Planting and seeds. We spoke about planting ,seeds, and earth. We saw so many different types of seeds. We made a little book of how seeds grow. They need water and sun to grow into flowers, trees and plants. We made earth collages with different seeds.

Water

We continued our unit on "our world" with a discussion about water. We spoke about the water that is in the sky (and clouds), and the water that fills the oceans and seas. Ocean water is not for drinking (because it is salty) but water that comes from the sky (rain water) is good for us to drink.Water is very important. We need water to exist as do animals and plants. Fish need water to survive. We saw pictures of all different types of fish including sharks, whales, sea horse, goldfish, etc

Under the seas and oceans as well as near them we find sand and sea shells. Sea shells are shells or outer skins of an animal that lives in the sea. The shell is part of the body of the animal. Empty seashells are often found washed up on beaches . The shells are empty because the animal has died and the soft parts have been eaten by other animals.

We held up blue paper for the water in the sky and threw it down as we sang our rain songs.

We saw and touched seashells at circle time.

We made our own water collages with blue materials, sand, and fish.

We had so much fun playing with sand in the sensory  table.