Groundhog Day

Kindergarten learned all about Groundhog Day. Groundhog Day falls out on February 2nd! If the ground hog emerges from his hole and sees his shadow, there will be 6 more weeks of winter. According to the ground hog, Spring is on the way!

Kindergarten read all about the ground hog in their Weekly Readers. We also made a special Groundhog Day project!

Nina made her very own project for Groundhog Day at home and brought it in to share with the class. Thank you Nina!

Temperature

Kindergarten learned all about temperature. We know that a thermometer is an instrument you use to measure temperature. Kindergarten spoke about various ways to discover if something is hot or cold. Other then using a thermometer we can use our senses! We took a trip to the school kitchen where Morah Dawn ran hot water. We saw all of the steam coming from the water. That means it is extremely hot! We also opened the freezer and touched ice and discovered the temperature in there was very cold. When we got back to out classroom, we had the opportunity to use our thermometer and place it in a cold cup of water as well as a hot one. We watched the red line in the thermometer raise if the temperature was hot and drop when it was cold. We had so much fun learning all about temperature!

An enhanced Shabbos party table!

This past week, our Shabbos party table was extra beautiful! Thank you, Nina and Alisa! For show n' tell they both brought in something to help decorate the table. Nina brought her very own, self made candle stick! Alisa brought in two colorful, glittery and bright table decorations that her grandmother made for her! How nice!

Sara's mother came for a visit!

We had a great time when Sara's mother came to visit our classroom to read us a book called "Ladybug Girl". This book is extra special because it is the one Sara bought at the book fair! Since then, Daniel O's mother has come as well and we hope to be able to put up pictures of that very soon.

If any parent would like to come in to the classroom and read to Kindergarten in honor of literacy month,
please put your name down and what time you would like to come on a special calendar hung up right outside our classroom door. We would love to have you!

OUR TRIP TO THE LIBRARY!

As I'm sure you are all aware, February is literacy month in Mazel Day School! One of the many things kindergarten has done in honor of literacy month is paying a visit to the largest library in borough of Brooklyn - the central library. We had a chance to meet a librarian who read some fun books to us! She also told us many interesting facts about the library including how many thousands of children's books they have. If I am not mistaken, she said 90,000! After that, we had time to go look at the many interesting and beautiful books. When we were done, we all got in line to check out our books, using our very own library card! The librarian behind the counter gave us a piece of paper telling us when our books have to be returned. It was a great adventurous day at the library! We had loads of fun!

ALISA'S GIFT TO THE CLASS

In honor of Alisa's sixth birthday, Alisa decided to bring in a gift to share with the whole class! Alisa generously brought in 2 beautiful parsha books for the class to have! We can't wait to get up to those Parshas and be able to use the brand new books. Thank you so much Alisa! Happy Birthday!

We started learning the new Nekudah of TZAYRAY!

I don't know if you are going to believe this, but kindergarten started learning a THIRD nekudah! The nekudah of Tzayray. Thayray makes a basic "ay" sound but changes up depending on which letter in the Alef-Beis it is under. We made Tzayray puppets and Alef-Beis wheels to help us learn the difference between komatz, patach and tzayray. We love learning! We are real pros!