Mothers Day, Lag Baomer and The Rainforest

The past two and a half weeks have been action packed with learning and activities for mothers day, Lag Baomer and the Rainforest. We also welcomed our new caterpillars to our classroom this week! Here are some pictures of what we've been up to in pre nursery.

Making our Mothers Day picture frames  

Flower Play-dough Provocation. We love to use provocation activities in out class as it is a main component to Reggio style learning.  Reggio inspired activities are about exploration and discovery; exploring with their senses, asking questions, testing theories, making plans and thinking deeply.

Lag Ba'omer Tissue paper bon fires

Sensory flower painting with shaving cream was a hit!

 Making our rain makers for the rainforest

Sorting animals that live in the farm or the rainforest

Making the Butterflies wings 

A great fine Motor activity was "planting the trees" into the strainers. 

 We love sports with coach Zev! 

 Making the body for our butterflies. they look so lovely on display in our classroom, come in and see!

Putting feathers on the birds wings at the light table with contact paper!

Rain Forest , Mothers day and Lag Baomer

We have had such a jam packed unit learning about the Rain Forest! We painted a beautiful Rain Forest scenery and learned about the layes of the rainforest and the different animals that we can find in each layer. We loved to sing the Rain Forest song:

The Layers of the Rainforest Song (Ttto: If you are happy and you know it)

There are layers in the forest, yes indeed

There are layers in the forest, yes indeed

Emergent, canopy and the understory

There are layers in the forest, yes indeed.

The forest floor is dim and dark and wet

The forest floor is dim and dark and wet

The ants go marching by as they watch the birds up high

The forest floor is dim and dark and wet.

The understory’s home to many snakes

The understory’s home to many snakes

They eat cats and bats and rats

and they like the gnats for snacks

The understory’s home to many snakes.

The canopy is like a big umbrella

The canopy is like a big umbrella

Monkeys, sloths, orangutans

Eat all the fruit they can

The canopy is like a big umbrella.

The emergent’s home to birds and butterflies

The emergent’s home to birds and butterflies

The leaves are so high that they almost touch the sky

The emergent’s home to birds and butterflies 

We learned about the different foods that come from the rainforest. One of them is Cocoa beans! We loved making and tasting chocolate pudding!

We painted our names using tea. which also comes from the Rain Forest.

We learned all about butterflies and the process of how the caterpillar transforms into a butterfly. 

We used droppers and coloured water to decorate butterflies which are hanging in our rain forest.

We were so  excited to welcome two caterpillars to our class. We will be watching them closely to see any changes.

We used different kinds of pasta to make our own diagram of the stages of the butterfly. First there is an egg, then a caterpillar, then a chrysalis and finally a butterfly.

For mothers day we prepared beautiful Shrinky Dink Keychains with pictures of our Mommy on it.

We learned about Lag Baomer and Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai who hid in a cave and ate carob and drank water while learning Torah. On the day of his passing we celebrate by making bon fires. We made our own bon fires and pictures of us and our friends singing around the bon fire.

We loved having our moms join us on Friday! We enjoyed painting jewellery boxes for our moms and eating yummy muffins. We told our moms why we love them and they told us some of the many reasons why they love us!

We love painting outdoors!

Shabbat Shalom!

Morah Chaya and Morah Chayala