Greetings and Happy Holidays Gan Ramat Gan families!! Over the last two weeks in Gan Ramat Gan, the children have continued to work on their emotional skills with Second Step. They were introduced to the concepts of feeling comfortable and uncomfortable, and how their bodies may show them this when they are feeling one or the other. They were given examples using the scenario cards and a few of my simple examples. This week’s Second Step revolves around disappointments and examples of how they could handle them. Two ways are talking to a grown up, and taking deep calming breaths to settle down. The letters introduced over the last two weeks were: P, H, R, and K, and during Fundations I like to switch up how we practice letter recognition and sounds. It is working, because each day they astound me with how much they are picking up! We of course have had many read-a- louds over the last two weeks, so here are just a few: I ain’t gonna paint no more, Llama Llama loves to read, Happy birthday cupcake, My five senses, and many more!! We have been working on body parts, and how they move and work, and learning about our five senses. We played a little game for each sense. Our projects have been to use shapes to make body books, use a body part to paint(fingers) snow, and using the flannel board to make body shapes/people, and we played a fun bones counting game during math center time. There have been more exciting learning adventures, but I don’t want to name all of them at once, so I just mentioned a few. Have a wonderful winter break, and I’ll see you all afterwards for more wonderful educational experiences! Until next year... Ms. Cindy Shalom!שלום We were practicing for the Winter Lights Festival every day. We love the Butterfly and the Blue Balloon. Ask us to perform our show at home as well for different family members during the holidays. We practiced numbers and patterns in Hebrew and played a lot of math games. If you have time durning the holidays, play Domino with us or games with a Dice. You can ask us to count the dots in Hebrew as well, we are experts... On boring Snow Days, click on our Snow Day Hebrew Fun page and choose a film or a playlist. Have a Mesiba (party) with our favorite party music. Our Favorite Moments: Ms. Cindy was teacher of the week. Congratulations!
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Shalom!שלום This week we used Unifix cubes to measure our body. We measured our hight with Ms. Cindy in English. Ms. Anna traced our feet and then we measured the size of our foot in Hebrew with the Unifix cubes. We are working on a "feet project" , but the outcome is a surprise, so we can't tell you more about it. We are playing new puzzles and math games. One of our new favorites is a combination of number recognition , counting and stringing beads. We have small plates with numbers turned upside down on the table. We chose one of the plates, turn it. In the plate there is a number and also dots. We try to recognize the number in Hebrew. If we can't , we are able to count the dots. Then we take beads from the basket and count the same amount, if it is matching, Ms. Anna gives us a string to string the beads. When we are ready we can turn another paper plate. ( You can prepare this game at home as well, ) This week we traced the number "2" and we are planning to trace different numbers every week. On Monday, we welcomed our new friend, Emanuellle in the class. This week we had a few chilly mornings, so we had recess in the Gym. We played with balls and it was a lot of fun, see pictures in the slide show. We practice our Butterfly and Balloon Poems daily for the Winter Festival. We continue to learn and practice body parts in Hebrew and work in our Hospital. You can practice these words at home with the help of the video below. English Greetings Gan Ramat Gan! This week on the English side, the children were introduced to two new letters (R and P) during Fundations, and of course we reviewed the previous alphabets. I switched Fundations up a little this week, because I wanted to sort of gage what they knew as far as letter sounds, and letter recognition. This time I showed them photos of different things, and asked them to identify it first. Once they told me what it was, I then asked them what letter and then sound they thought it began with. Lastly, we would do a quick call and response kind of method(I say it, you say it). For example, if I point to myself and say, “Ba, B, Bat”, when I point to them, they knew to repeat it. Let me say that all of the children at least recognized two more letters than they did during the first assessment, and some have mastered far more. It makes me so proud to see them not only pick this up, but enjoy it as well! During Second Step we talked about how our bodies feel emotion, and I used the scenario cards and puppets to help teach them. So, they learned that sometimes when you’re worried or afraid, you may feel it in your tummy, or your heart rate picks up, or you breath faster, etc. It’s your bodies way of communicating your feelings. They learned about worried and frustrated feelings, and how it can make your body feel, and then how to deal with it, and hopefully let it go. Talk to your teacher or parent, to help you work out or understand why you’re feeling that way, and how to work through it. Ask your child about Michael’s worry, and Tatiana’s frustration, and see if they remember anything. I always add some of my own ideas to the mix, so it may not be 100% of what you read on second steps website. The other thing we have been doing over the last two weeks is learning about our body parts. We made body books, and we used the small connecting blocks to measure our height... well each child’s height. I have it written down at work, so I can’t remember the numbers off hand right now. During math we introduced a little splinter counting game using felt hand cutouts and wood-chips from outside. They rolled one die, counted the dots, and added that many pieces of wood chips to the felt hand(splinters). They seemed to enjoy this game! All in all it was a pretty good week! So until next time... Ms. Cindy Moments of the Week: Shalom!שלום This week we continued to learn about our body in Hebrew. We played games and did artwork while we were practicing the following words: einayim - eyes oznayim - ears raglayim - legs yadayim - arms (we also counted that we have two from the above body parts) beten- tummy gav - back af - nose pe - mouth We started to learn to play domino in Hebrew. We took turns, counted the dots and learned how to place the domino tiles on the lighting table. We keep practicing two poems for the Winter Light Festival: Parpar (Butterfly) and Balon (Balloon) This week we are posting several albums about our amazing life in Sela. Reptile Show Last Two Weeks with New Games fundraised by Ms. Cindy |
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