Shabbat Shalom and Happy Birthday Riva!!

 Aleph bet stamping on our challah bags

 Lets shape our challah dough...our favorite Friday routine!

 Happy Birthday to Riva! Riva is turning 2!

 Dancing for Riva's birthday.

 Playing parachute with a birthday balloon! So much fun! We had to try and get the balloon to jump out as we shook the parachute! 

 Smiling birthday girl on her special day!

 Coloring the birthday tablecloth and eating delicious sprinkle cookies!

 Riva's family celebrates!

 Dalya, Ido, and Mendel take a look at our celery experiment from the other day. Its amazing to see how the celery 'drank' up the colored water like a 'straw'! The top of the celery sticks were turning blue and orange!

 Sprinkler fun!!!

 Busy at the pool

 Shabbat Shalom!

Kinetic sand and more!

 Today we made Kinetic sand! We poured just two ingredients in a bowl to create this amazing texture that the children could not get enough of! Everyone wanted to try it out, and once they did, they didn't want to leave it!

 We also used droppers to put water color paint on paper towels. The droppers build our fine motor skills, and the paper towel does a wonderful job absorbing the colors as we watch them mix so beautifully! 

Taking care of our babies. Dalya left the table for a minute to have a turn with the kinetic sand. Chana came up to Dalya and said, "Your baby is crying. I will hold her until you are done." 

The dramatic play experience is so beneficial for children's development in many areas!  It helps children feel powerful in their environment, can give them relief from tension, uses social interaction skills and language skills, and can help them sort out fantasy and reality. Its wonderful to seem them engaging in dramatic play!

 Dalya shows her friends how she changes her baby. They watch on.

 Today we went to the playground and had so much fun!! There was a nice breeze that made it all the more enjoyable!

\Making sure to stay hydrated! We each take a drink and keep sipping until morah finishes the song so we are sure to drink lots of water!

We started an experiment that we will be watching over the next few days. We put celery into blue and orange water. We want to see what will happen when the celery 'drinks' the water, like flowers do to keep them alive. 

Ice cube painting!

 Sorting activity: The children sorted small, medium, and large pom poms into the small, medium, and large containers. This classifying activity is a first step to math skills. They used tweezers to transfer them, building their fine motor skills. 

 Painting with colorful ice cubes was so much fun! Just the thing you want to paint with when its so hot outside in the summer!

 Ido, Chana, and Akiva use toys they put together to pretend they are speaking on microphones. 

The children are enjoying reading time. 

 Coloring with chalk.

 Sprinkler! The children excitedly said, "Its raining!" 

Meyer picked flowers for the Morahs. We were so touched. :)

What will melt?

Cutting card stock

 Chana shows a triangle that she cut.

 Cutting with scissors is a very important fine motor skill that the children are getting a hang of!

 Thank you to Hazel for being fruit family this week! The kiwi she brought was an exciting new fruit for us to try!

 Today we did a science experiment. It was interesting and alot of fun! We placed several items into the sections of a muffin pan. Here are the items we used:

A green lego

A cube of butter

An ice cube

A cube of cheese

Three crayons

A few chocolate chips

A rock

A wood chip

A tissue

A penny

We discussed what would happen if we brought this outside to sit in the sun. Would these items change? Or stay the same? The children hypothesized, however weren't really sure how these things could possibly change. Akiva actually suggested that the 'Sun would come down down down, and make the chocolate chips disapear!'

 Riki brought the tray outside. Gosh the sun went in her eyes; the sun was surely shining!

 An hour later, Chana went to retrieve the tray from outside. 

 We looked at the tray. Some things  had surely changed!!

 The crayons were so soft, that Morah Mushka was able to paint with it on her finger!

 The Ice cube had melted to water, and the cheese was super soft. The lego, tissue, wood chip, and penny seemed the same, just a little hotter. 

 The butter had melted. Meyer even said, "It's an egg!" That's how different it looked. 

We felt the rock- it hadn't changed in form, but it sure was very HOT to touch! We all had a turn to feel it.

At lunch we all got a chance to taste the yummy melted chocolate!!!!

It was interesting to see how things changed in form when they became hot from the sun, and also interesting to see that some things stayed exactly the same. We really enjoyed this experiment!