Greetings Gan Ramat Gan Parents!! On the English side of things, we have finally introduced the last of the alphabets during Fundations over the last two weeks. Now, we will just continue to review them each day, along with each sound, as well as rhyming and beginning sounds. Last week was also our official last week of our families and homes unit, but I still need everyone’s family crests/family shields/ code of arms for discussion and display. As it is black history month, we’ve discussed a few things that African Americans have invented(see the door). However as we have three and four year olds that don’t quite understand this concept, what I’ve done more is read children’s books that depicts African American families, and children...just regular books. I have a collection of these picture books. One is called library, which about a little boy that loves the library, and another called “I’ve got the rhythm”, and “Marvelous me”, “Honey I love”, and many more titles. My goal this month is to just make sure that children see depictions of themselves and others in books and photos. I just want it to be the norm, so I will be using these books throughout the year. Last week I focused more on animal homes/habitats, since it was the last week. The new work introduced was “habitat”(ask them what a habitat is over the weekend). I read a book about animals that was bought for us at the book fair, and I showed them videos of real animals, focusing on the Savannah animals, and the forest animals. They really enjoyed learning more about animals and their homes. Now, I am super excited about our new unit, which the English team got to choose. When we were throwing ideas in the ring, I knew what I wanted, and everyone else was on the same page. So, without further ado...Our new unit is “Space the final frontier”, and I couldn’t be more excited to teach this unit. Science and literacy are my favorite to subjects!! I’ve taught the Space/planet unit to 3-5 year olds for the last 20 years, so I am ready to roll!! Please keep those paper towel and toilet paper tubes coming, we are definitely going to be using these for this unit!! I still have a bunch already, but more couldn’t hurt, and I can share it with other classrooms as needed. On Monday please take home your child’s body projects, and family trees. I want to display the family crests only because I will need space for space projects as well. The other thing I need is small kids sized shoe boxes...if you do t have any at home, I know some shoe stores will give them away if you ask for them. If we could get a volunteer to go 19 shoe boxes the size of your child’s feet that would be awesome! Well, that’s it for now, but until next time... Ms. Cindy Shalom!שלום We are learning about clothing in Hebrew. Last week we designed our shirts (chulza), This week we designed shoes (nalayim). You can see our design at the entrance. Our newly designed shoes (nalayim) also tribute to Jan Matzeliger. "Jan Matzeliger was born in Paramaribo (now Suriname) in 1852. Matzeliger settled in the United States in 1873 and trained as a shoemaker. In 1883, he patented a shoe lasting machine that increased the availability of shoes and decreased the price of footwear." We made our laundry in the Dramatic Play area and learned to put things on the clotheline in Hebrew. We used the Sun (shemesh) to dry our clothes and then we folded them in our basket. Please click here for our new vocabulary: Clothes Joelle's dad, Clint, visited us and gave an amazing presentation about the Hot Comb, a tribute to Annie Malone and Madame C. J Walker See pictures below. Thank you for the amazing afternoon, Clint. Nathanael's dad, Mark, was our Mistery Reader on Friday. Thank you for reading!
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Shalom!שלום We spent the two first days of the week with assessments in Hebrew about the Family Unit. We all know our family members in Hebrew, so it was fun to recognize them on pictures . We started our new Hebrew Unit this week: Clothing Designed our shirts and learned about our uniforms: chultza- shirt michnasayim - pants chazait - skirt simla - dress Watched our new Clothing Playlist on Friday. (click on the link to watch it at home) Celebrated Valentine's Day and Ms. Cindy read books about Michelle and Barak Obama. See photos below: Moments of the Week Slideshow: Shalom!שלום This week we added two family members to our Hebrew vocabulary. Doda - aunt Dod - uncle We read "Yalda Echat Amra" ( A girl said). The book is about a little girl who could not pronounce the word "traktor", so the whole family is coming together to help her pronounce the word. This is a great book to practice the name of family members. I placed a copy of the final page in the book bags on Friday, so you can practice the names at home. Please watch and listen to the book below. Welcome to the English side of Gan Ramat Gan!! This week the children created envelope houses to go up in our Envelope city. They had fun making them, some more than others. One child wanted to make her grandmothers house as well, so she did two. A few others wanted to make two houses as well. Those will go up on display this week. We also continued to review our letters and their sounds, as well as learning what rhyming words are, and then practicing making sets of these words. I brought in some children’s books from my home collection that are by African American authors and/or depict African American children/families (for Black History Month). The class really enjoyed these books! The titles were: Full, Full, Full Of love, Best friends, and Little red and the very hungry lion. This week I will bring in more titles with that same theme. Just a gentle reminder that the family crests are due the week of the 18th( by or before that morning of Friday the 22nd). Also a reminder that toys are not allowed to brought to school except on Friday’s...it makes life easier if there is only one day a week that we have to keep up with toys...and let’s not for get the, “I don’t want shares” argument. So Friday’s are the only days that they will be allowed to walk around with a toy from home. Thank you in advance for your support on this!! Until next time... Ms. Cindy On the 100th Day of School Mr. Josh entered our classroom and we experienced what happens when water and dry ice meet. During our Math time Ms. Cindy distributed vinegar and food coloring and we learned to use the eye dropper and put more and more drops on baking powder. See our experience below: Science Experiment of the Week: Moments of the Week: Greetings everyone, and welcome to another blog edition here in Gan Ramat Gan! This week on the English side of things, we have continued to work on letter sounds and letter recognition. We are also continuing our lessons on rhyming, which some are getting and some are not...which is okay. Introducing this concept is important, but they don’t have to comprehend everything in pre-k three, so no worries there. Remember to make learning these skills fun at home by using everyday items, and every day events (cooking, getting dressed, going to the store, going for walks, etc.), and point things out, while asking questions. In math, we are learning number identification, putting numbers in order, patterns, and grouping. Groceries stores are great for math games, so take advantage and have fun! Our unit is homes and families, so here is an easy fun home activity to do with the entire family, and share with the class. Please create a family crest/coat of arms. This will represent your family, and who you are as a family. Your families surname should be on maybe a large poster board cutout of a shield, and then just add things that make your family unique, and who they are...and remember, every family is unique! Each member of the family should have input and be represented on the crest. Think about a family tradition...something you can agree upon as something you do together...where is you family originally from? Then maybe add small individual things. Just have fun, be creative, and if you need more information...google family crests/coat of arms. It’s not just for wealthy aristocrats...it’s for all of us!! These are due by the week of the 18th (after the three day holiday weekend) Have fun! Until next time..... Ms. Cindy Shalom!שלום This week we continued to learn about our family members in Hebrew We added the following words: ah - brother ahot - sister We read two beautiful books: Sefer HaPilpilim (Elephants by Alona Frankel) about an elephant family with ima, aba and pilpilon (small elephant) who were a 3 member family until ima had a small baby elephant in her tummy. It is a beautifully illustrated book by the author. HaSefer shel Ima (Mother's Book). This book has an English version you may find in your local library. We also drew our families and spoke about the members of our families in Hebrew. We played family bingo in Hebrew and this week we won a building block with each card we identified, so we could build a house for our families. The highlight of the week were our Thursday Birthday Party for Joelle, Emmanuelle and Max, and our Friday Field Trip to the National Building Museum. "Better than the Inaugural Ball" - said the carpet of the National Building Museum. As we say in Hebrew:: "עושים חיים" - Osim chaim! - We are having fun. |
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