Mitzvah Notes

Mitzvah notes are essential in bridging the values & lessons we want to impart to our children and students from school to home and vice versa. It brings everything they learn full circle into a 'wholesome' education. In addition the children experience such pride and healthy self esteem through highlighting the good choices they have made to do the right thing. I know its not always easy when its gets busy while taking care of them, but if you take a short few minutes to jot something down on any random paper you can find it will be well worth your effort!

Aleph Bet cookie cutters

When Shmuli came in today Zev said "Shmuli I made a Shin for you!"

Zev found his letter and made a Zayin.

Science experiment - Color explosions

Baking soda, kool-aid, and vinegar:

We mixed together the red + yellow kool-aid

blue + yellow kool-aid

& blue and red kool-aid.

Watching and listening to the sounds of the chemicals mixing and the colors mixing was pretty cool!

It even smelled good believe it or not! The Yeladim kept on smelling it (I think they were smelling the kool-aid) and that's how we decided to try some taste testing with the color mixing. 

 The Yeladim each put in their 'orders' of which kool- aid flavors they wanted to mix and taste. The Yeladim loved watching as the colors mixed and then excitingly shouting out the new color they saw.

Water color mixing incorporating the letter Aleph

The Yeladim really enjoyed using the water paints today. While observing I noticed the Yeladim's concentration while using the two step water color method. "Look what color I made!" The Yeladim kept on remarking as they painted. 

Show & Tell - objects starting with the letter 'Aleph'

The creativity was great!

Zev brought in a picture of his 'Abba.'

 Finding the Aleph's in all the names of the objects.

 Shmuli brought in a little figure that was an 'Abba.'

Binyamin brought in an 'Etrog.' Zev asked if he can smell it. Then he commented, "It doesn't smell anymore and its not yellow anymore." He was most certainly right! By now our Etrog was quite shriveled.

 David brought in an Arnav - Rabbit.

Mixing colors though soapy suds (Tuesday)

Tu B'shvat

First the Yeladim listened to and interactive story with a felt board to understand what we are celebrating on Tu B'shvat.

Then the Yeladim tasted from many of the 7 special fruits of Israel including figs, dates, pomegranate seeds, and grapes. Surprisingly, the Yeladim sampled the new fruits although the look different than what they are used to.

The Yeladim made Tu B'shvat fruit kabobs.