This week we read Sammy Spiders First Hanukkah. The children “fried” latkes in their pans. This week’s Hebrew letter is ר and the color of the week is רררד (pink/varod)

 

We lit the candles each morning and recited the brachot, sang Channukah songs and danced around.  We played the memory game; going around the circle with each person saying what they most enjoyed about the holiday and then the next person repeats what  the previous person said... and adds their piece: Morah Lana loved lighting the candles with her family, including her dog.  Henry loved opening his presents, Riley liked her new sled, Rebecca loved spending time with her family, Sasha loved the chocolate gelt, Ben loved his Monster Truck, and Ramona loved seeing her brother and playing the dreidel game.  Jakob liked lighting the candles, Maya liked eating chocolate gelt after lighting the candles, Audra loved making latkes with Mom, and Dror loved eating chocolate gelt, sufganiot and potato latkes.  Yuval loved what everyone else said!  

On Wednesday Morah Sherri treated us to a fun Channukah Yoga class - ask your child to demonstrate:)

Friday we had so much fun playing in the snow - see pictures.  

We're working on the decimal system, counting and sorting in units, 10's, 100's and 1000's  (children need only know numbers one to 10 to work with the golden bead materials).  Practicing writing letter sounds, writing numbers, discovering facts about European countries, with pictures and flags, creating words with the moveable alphabet, ...

 

We are doing a unit on measurement, exploring first with little colored squares and then learned that an outstretched hand, from tip of pinkie to tip of thumb is a 'span'. The children measured the table top, shelves, large puzzles, a floor mat... and recorded their findings.   The children are using their new dictionaries, finding the page by first letter, looking for the word and/or and requesting  the word to be entered, and then writing the word on their story.