Friday, April 1, 2011 LETTER OF THE WEEK: A
On Monday, we read Angelina and Alice by Katharine Holabird. Angelina and Alice make a great team as they work together in a gymnastics show. We also read Where is the Afikomen? by Roz Schanzer. For our art project, the boys and girls painted afikomen covers. The afikomen is the piece of matzah that is hidden by the leader of the seder, the Passover meal. After the seder, the children search for the afikomen, and the child who finds it, wins a prize. Before Passover, the children will be taking home their afikomen covers with a special treat inside. We learned these letter A words: alphabet, airplane, alligator, apple, age, ankle, arm, April, America, animal, astronaut, avocado, artichoke, abracadabra, and our friend, Alejandro.
On Tuesday, we read The Alphabet Tale by Jan Garten. In this book, the children were given rhyming clues to name animals from A to Z. For our letter of the week art project, the boys and girls decorated their letter A with ABC building blocks. We have been learning about Passover and we read from the children’s Passover Haggadah. The boys and girls have learned new songs about the holiday, too.
On Wednesday, the journal group decorated their page for spring with a butterfly. The story group read Happy Passover Rosie by Jane Breskin Zalben. In this book, Rosie celebrates Passover with her family. Happy Passover, Rosie tells about the afikomen, the seder plate, and the Four Questions that ask, “Why is this night different from all other nights?” In yoga, Miss Kim began the class with yoga breathing and she asked the children to name what they like to drink. We continued playing the animal alphabet yoga game. Today the boys and girls posed as quails, rabbits, snakes, turtles, unicorns, vipers, walruses, xenuruses (We read about this animal in The Alphabet Tale. It is an armadillo.), yaks, and zebras.
On Thursday, we read The Matzah Man by Naomi Howland. In this adaptation of The Gingerbread Boy, a matzah man runs away from Mr. Cohen, the baker. He runs all through the town until he ends up at a family seder. For our art project, the children made alligator puppets.
On Friday, we read Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse by Leo Lionni. In this tale, a real mouse and a wind-up toy mouse learn about friendship when Alexander, the mouse, asks the wise lizard to change Willy, the toy mouse, into a real animal. For our letter A art project, the children made apple trees.
*Thank you to Carly, Lucie, Maya, Giacomo, and Jack for being our super “kids of the day” this week.
*Camp applications are now being accepted. Enrollment works on a first come—first served basis. Children can be enrolled for any number of camp days during the camp season. You only pay for the days that your child is attending. Summer camp begins on Monday, June 6 and extends through Thursday, July 28. The hours are 8:30 AM until 12:30 PM Monday through Friday. Outdoor and indoor play, kiddie pools, bikes, songs, stories, themed arts and craft projects, games, and movement fill the morning hours at the Playschool Summer Camp. If you have any questions, please ask Gloria for more details.
*Please mark your calendars with these upcoming dates and more information about each event will be forthcoming:
Thursday, April 7 - Pre - K AM Drama Performance at 11 AM
Thursday, April 14 at 12:30 PM - Tuesday, April 26 - Closed for Passover. We will re-open on Wednesday, April 27.
Monday, May 2 - Class Pictures for the Puppy Class, 3 - 4 Year Old Class, Pre-K AM, Pre-K PM
Tuesday, May 3 - Class Pictures for the Kitten Class
Wednesday, May 4 - Pre-K trip to the Arden Theatre
Friday, May 6 - Playschool Shabbat Dinner
Tuesday, May 10 - 3 - 4 Year Old Class trip to the Art Museum
Wednesday, May 11 and Thursday, May 12 - Parent Teacher Conferences
Friday, May 20 - Last day of Afterschool Arts Clubs
Thursday, May 26 - Kitten Class Graduation
Friday, May 27– Puppy Class, 3 – 4 Year Old Class, and Pre-K AM and PM Graduations
*Next week, we will learn about letter E and Passover.
Have a great weekend! Miss Gloria, Miss Chloe, Miss Julia, Miss Mindy, and Mr. Noah
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