THANK YOU!!!!

Thank you to all those parents who donated books from our wish list during the two weeks of the book fair. We now have SEVEN (!) new books to add to our class library!

Random Activities

Enjoying the backyard!

  We practiced our fine motor skills and reviewed our shapes by threading shapes onto a string. Some of us were really good at this.  

 We used square bean bags during exercise time to review squares.

bean bags on your shoulder....

bean bags on your stomach....

 throwing and catching our bean bags

relaxing after our "workout" :)

february - literacy month

Thank you to all the moms and dads that came to visit and read us a book!

Tova Leah's mom read "4 good friends and a boat" by Menucha Fuchs

Mariella's dad read "Curious George goes to the toy store"

Naomi's mom read a Russian book about cleanliness and keeping our hands and clothing clean...

Manya/ Miriam Rivka's mom read a book that she herself wrote and illustrated!!!! called Giraffe wants to sleep.

Shimon's mom read "telephone" a book that Shimon himself could almost tell us word for word:) :)

Mariella's mom read for us "Llama Llama misses Mama"

BOOK FAIR - On Tuesday we went for a walk to the book fair. We each had money and were able to choose our very own book! I hope you were happy with the choices of books that your child picked out all by him/herself!

Tu - Bishvat

Today was Tu Bishvat (the 15th day of the Jewish month of Shevat). Just as we have a "Rosh Hashana" a day on which G-d decides our future for the upcoming year, trees also have a Rosh Hashana: one day a year when G-d decides how tall each tree will grow, if and how much fruit they will bear, etc. We use the term "The birthday of the trees" as a rough explanation to describe the beginning of the new year for trees when talking to children.
We  celebrate by eating fruit and specifically "the seven species" of fruits which the land of Israel was blessed with. These include wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and dates.


In celebration of this day, we joined in a school assembly in the shule! We saw all the seven special fruits/foods that grow in the land of Israel. We even watched a short video about these. We then had a fruit party, where we were each able to try each of these fruits. We ended off with a delicious tree birthday cake (as you can see in the pictures).

 looking at the "7 fruits"

 The tree birthday cake

manya enjoying grapes

 

olives!

pomegranate seeds

dates

       Tova Leah eating barley! (she even asked for seconds :) :) )

Birthday cake