Friday, April 8, 2011
Letter of the Week: EOn Monday, we read Matzah Mouse by Lauren L. Wohl. This book tells how a young girl could not resist eating chocolate-covered matzah before the holiday of Passover. Our art project was to make a Passover seder plate. On the plate is a hard-boiled egg, which represents a sign of new life, the lamb bone, to represent the lambs that were killed to mark an X over the Hebrew homes, salt water, which stands for the tears shed by slaves, parsley for the spring, bitter herbs for the bitterness of slavery, charoset which represents the mortar used to make bricks, and matzah, the bread that did not have time to rise when the Hebrews left Egypt. We also learned these letter E words: egg, eyes, eyebrows, ears, exit, easel, excellent, eagle, eat, earth, extinct, elephant, elbow, eight, eleven, and eighteen.
On Tuesday, we read The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper. This book is about a little blue engine that pulls a train full of toys and food over a mountain. As the little blue engine pulls and tugs the train, it keeps repeating, “I think I can - I think I can”. For our art project, the boys and girls decorated the letter E with an electric eel. We read from My Very Own Haggadah and sang songs for Passover.
On Wednesday, the story group read Elmer by David McKee. Elmer, the elephant, stands out amongst the other elephants with his brightly-colored patchwork body. The journal group made frogs, one of the ten plagues, for their journal page. In yoga, Miss Kim asked the children to name their favorite ocean creatures. Today’s yoga theme was the beach and the boys and girls posed as things that are found in the water and on the sand.
On Thursday, we read The Earth Book by Todd Parr. This book tells about the ways in which people can take care of the earth. We can turn off the lights, recycle, save leftovers, share a book, plant a tree, save water, and clean up our trash. The boys and girls made the earth by using an eye dropper to drip blue paint, for the ocean, and green paint, for the land, onto a coffee filter. As the paint touched the coffee filter, the blue and green paint blended to form the colors of the earth. The children in our class had the privilege of seeing their friends in the Pre-K AM Class perform an original play, onstage, in the sanctuary. Each week, the boys and girls participate in a drama class, and today, the Pre-K Class put on a show that they wrote with the help of their drama teacher, Miss Vanda. The name of the show was The Journey to Smoke World Across The Yellow Beach to Rainbow World and Back! We were so proud of all of our friends and they gave a fantastic performance.
On Friday, we read Dinosaur on Passover by Diane Levin Rauchwerger. In this book, an enthusiastic dinosaur visits a family for Passover. For our art project, the boys and girls made frog puppets.
*Thank you to Cobrin, Dante, Liam, Dalia, Alejandro, and Maddie 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 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 I and Passover. Have a wonderful Passover holiday!
Have a great weekend! Miss Gloria, Miss Chloe, Miss Julia, Miss Mindy, and Mr. Noah
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