Mitzvah notes

Zev was so excited when he came to school this morning, "I have a Mitzvah note Morah Esther!" He was so excited that we had to read it right away! And we did. Then Zev said that his Mom only wrote about two Mitzvahs but there was really a 3rd as well and began to tell us how he put on his socks all by himself! That started a whole discussion between the Yeladim about all the things they each know how to do by themselves. It seems we have a very independant class!

Getting in the Purim spirit!

 Following the Purim book the Yeladim are starting the first of many Purim Plays!

the Yeladim are holding puppets of each of the characters and acting out the first little bit of the story. As the Yeladim becoming more familiar with the storyline they will become the actual characters!

Dancing to Purim songs!

Aleph Bet letters

Zev was calling out the letters he knew from the Aleph Bet and enjoyed the textile experience of drawing them in the sand tray in the Montessori corner.
As he tried to remember as many letters as he could he called upon Binyamin to help him out. Zev: "Binaymin can you help me with the song?!" (Aleph Bet letter song)

Can objects produce sound?

With some recycled items, rubber bands, bells, parchment paper the Yeladim came up with a couple great ideas for how to make sound out of these items!

Zev is pulling the rubber band and Shmuli is stroking it.

Zev: 'It sounds like a guitar!'

Then we tried to put the rubber bands on the tissue box to make it easier than holding... and the sound was even more profound!

We're not done yet! Let's see what the next steps might be or if the Yeladim are satisfied with what they have created.

Can your body parts make sounds?

Zev showed us his tongue made a noise!

Binyamin tried his eyes. But we all listened closely but could not hear any sound.

This is the list the Yeladim came up with:

Head - no sound

feet - stomping feet

hands - clapping hands, snapping fingers

teeth - Zev: "Listen to my teeth!" (made bite sounds!)

Painting with sound

 Bells were attached to the top of paintbrushes and as the Yeladim painted quitely little jingling sounds could be heard. It was quite pleasant.

Ps - As the Yeladim became engrossed in their painting they were mixing all sorts of colors trying to guess what color they might make. We started out with the 3 primary colors which grew into adding the 3 secondary colors....at the end of the activity every color paint on the table had been mixed to create a new version!

Trying out different ways to transfer sound

Binyamin is listening to Morah through a vacuum hose! It tickled his ears to listen.

 David is holding a very long empty cardboard 'log'. When he spoke into it his voice sounded 'funny' (Binyamin)