How Many Raisins Are On My Challah?

We had a beautiful Spring week.

Today we decorated Challah with 

raisins, and practiced counting them.

we used stickers as raisins.

Rafi and Riva peeled enough to cover their Challah.

Zalman and Rafi took just few .

Just right before we have Shabbat party,

we love to go aboard on  Shabbat train that is 

moving in our class.

The children noticed the wonderful weather, 

Riva said: " I didn't bring coat ".

Rafi and Zalman were playing : Peek -a-boo.

Drawing outside ... what a fun.

Shabbat party was special.

 The children checked what do we need

 for Shabbat, together:

We asked:

Did we clean the house? they said: "yes".

Did we bake Challa? they said "No",

 so we went to the shop to buy Challah.

 Did we set the table ? they said "No".

Then we set the table with :

Candles, Tzedakah box, wine and kidush cup.

Mendel said" Challah cover" and sang :" Shalom Alichem".

Rafi added the Challah and said:" Here kidush cup".

They all wanted yo lit the candles.

Zalman put a coin in Tzedakah box.

We blessed 

the candles.

We sang Shabbat songs with all our body and soul :)

What Is Blue?

Today the children had an invitation to create

with loose ends.

We used play dough, shells and foil paper.

Riva made a big Hamantaschen .

 Mendel and Zalman warped the shells with foil paper.

 

Zalman liked the sound it makes.

Riva built an oven to bake her dough.

Zalman and Rafi helped to built a bigger and higher oven...

until it collapsed :(

Rafi said: " I'm build for Riva."

Then Rafi built a small model for Riva 

and was very proud of it.

Zalman found a small Doll and said:" Momma."

Mendel balanced himself.

The weather is getting warmer we had a nice time playing outside.

We keep learning colors and shapes.

We were looking in the mirror to see our eye color.

During our conversation we noticed we had

 matching characters for Rafi and Mendel.

Spring Is Here!

It`s Spring and we felt it by checking the weather.

We noticed blue sky and yellow sun.

Riva threaded caps on a pipe cleaner and counted them.

Mendel started from one.

Shockingly :) the bird seeds fell on the floor. 

The children were happy to help clean up

 using the broom.

At circle time we talked about spring and 

we pretended to be butterflies.

Parachute play.

The children did a great job sorting colors!

Storytelling and counting through animals in a zoo.

Rafi counted 3 sheep and put them in the sheep house at the zoo.

Zalman counted the sheep too.

Yesterday we created Spring in a jar.

 We also had David visited, he thought Purim is still around.

The children explained to him Purim is over and we need to say,  "goodbye Purim! See you next year."