Shabbos Party!!

Every Friday, kindergarten has a special tradition. As part of our preparation for Shabbos, we partake in a Shabbos Party! We light the candles, go to Shul, make kiddush, eat the Shabbos meal and sing special Shabbos songs! Check out these pictures and see how much fun we have.

The JEWISH home

Recently we have been learning about "The Jewish Home". We all created our own Jewish Home on a poster and stuck on pictures of some Mitzvos we can perform in it. We also took part in a really creative Jewish show n' tell. Everyone brought in an object from home and presented it to all their friends. Every single friend remembered to bring in an object! It was a real success!

We Love Fall!

Kindergarten is learning all about Fall. We took a nature walk to collect leaves, twigs and other things that remind us of Fall. When we had enough items, we went back to the classroom and created our very own tree. If you look close, you can see the leaves falling off our tree as well!!

An Egg Hatched

Our friend Ariella G. was so kind to give the school 4 beautiful birds. What was so special about this gift was that inside the cage, one of the birds was sitting on 2 eggs! We have been waiting patiently for the eggs to hatch. On Monday October 18th...Morah Dawn came into school and was delighted to see an egg hatched! The class was so excited to meet the new baby bird.

Every day we clean the cage and place new food and water for the birds. Kindergarten learned that all living things need food, air and water in order to survive. We took a class trip to PETLAND to buy the birds more food and supplies for the cage. The workers there were so nice. They even let us see the parrot that was outside of it's cage and all of the fish tanks!

We are going to keep a close eye on our birds and make sure to take good care of them. Thank you again to Ariella and her family for this wonderful gift!

ROSH CHODESH!

Last Friday was the last day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei. On Shabbos we started the new month called Cheshvan. To make the day of Rosh Chodesh special, kindergarten partook in a school-wide rally. At the rally, we learned about the special trait (midda) our matriarch Rochel had. Her day of passing is in the month of Cheshvan and she specialized in the midda of 'chessed' - kindness. In kindergarten, we will be learning about this important midda and other middos as well. In honor of Rosh Chodesh, we also had pizza for lunch. Yummy!  

THE PARSHA OF THE WEEK!

Last week, we started learning the weekly parsha in depth! We will be doing so every week. We have such a great time learning the story from the Torah, reading books about the parsha and acting it out. Every week, as we learn the weekly parsha, we will be scrap-booking it as well. The scrapbook will be sent home every Friday so that we can show it to our families over Shabbos. Please remind your son or daughter to show it to you. We put a lot of work into it and are very proud of our special work. (please remember to send the scrap book back to school every Monday.)

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.