Fire Safety

This week's Weekly Reader lesson was about fire safety. Morah Dawn read a book about firefighters and their very important job to the class. Kindergarten also learned how important it is to have smoke detectors in their homes. Morah Dawn brought in a real smoke detector for everyone to see. We spoke about checking the batteries often to make sure your detectors are working properly. Kindergarten also learned various items we do not play with such as candles, matches and fire. We learned that if ever our clothing were to catch on fire we Stop, Drop and Roll. Kindergarten even got to demonstrate this.

Kindergarten Learns to Add!

This week in Kindergarten we began our adventure of learning how to add! We learned to recognize the addition sign (+) as we as the equal sign (=). Morah Dawn used markers to demonstrate the concept of adding by 1. For example, 3 markers plus 1 marker is how many markers? To show the answer, the students would count out markers to come up with the correct total. We can't wait to continue our new and exciting adventure!

Fruit for Afternoon Snack

Parents: If you'd like, you may send a fresh fruit with your child for afternoon snack. The fruit should be whole, uncut and washed. This is optional, not mandatory. Thanks!

Happy Birthday!

Happy 5th Birthday to our friend Daniel!

Weekly Reader

The Kindergarten class has been reading from the Weekly Reader. One of the topics we spoke about were our manners. Kindergarten learned manner words such as please, thank you, hello, goodbye, excuse me and sorry.

Another topic we learned about was, How an Apple Grows. Morah Dawn brought in red, green and yellow apples. We cut the apples open and spoke about the various parts such as the skin, flesh, stem and seeds. Morah Dawn even had the children close their eyes and taste test a piece of apple to try and guess which color apple they were eating. What a healthy treat!

Measuring Skills

The Kindergarten class has been learning how to measure using their rulers! We have measured various items in our classroom as well as taken walks around the neighborhood and put our measuring skills to the test. We have also learned that we use a scale to measure how heavy an item is or how many pounds it is. The kindergarten class put their new found knowledge to the test by using a tape measure to measure how many inches tall each other are as well as a scale to measure how much they weigh. Come see our bulletin board outside the classroom for the results!

Succos

We had a very busy few weeks in kindergarten! So many fun and beautiful Jewish Holidays! Most recently we learned about and experienced the holidays of Sukkot and Simchas Torah. in honor of Sukkot we made sure to learn about its two main mitzvos; sitting in the sukkah and saying the blessing on the lulax and estrog. We even got the special privilege of doing both of those miztvos when we came to school in the middle of the holiday! We also made a beautiful Sukkot decoration to be hung up in our sukkah or home. In honor of simchas Torah we made fun, bright flags to dance with in synagogue. We learned all about how holy and precious the Torah is to each and every Jew.

We reviewed three more letters in the alef-beis; daled, hey and vov. we are really looking forward to perfecting our alef-beis skills!