Chanukah Part 1!

This week we jumped right into the Chanukah spirit focusing on Menorah's, candles and flames! 

Our nursery friends had so much fun with Chanukah science learning all about melting wax and how the heat affects the wax! 

Our little makers in the nursery room had so much fun with their Chanukah science, making Chanukah themed sensory bottles! 

Tracing menorahs and dreidels with shaving cream! 

 Making beautiful classroom decorations!

Our Nursery friends helped decorate their classroom with their work on patterns! They made beautiful paper chain patterns.

We have worked all week preparing out classroom menorah! Using so many different mediums of art was so fun! 

 We are SO proud of our classroom menorah! 

By circle we love practicing our songs for our sing-a-long and the Bracha for Chanukah! below are the songs we have been singing! Kids who grow up hearing music, singing songs, and moving to the beat are exposed to a wide variety of tastes, smells, textures, colors, and sounds.

1. 1, 2, 3, 4,

1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 

Take your drum and march along with me

1, 2, 3, 4, 1,2, 3, 

Everyone can be a Maccabee.

Brave and strong we march along

There’s lots to do before the day is done.

Chanukah time is here again

Happy Chanukah to everyone.

2. I Have A Little Dreidle

I have a little dreidle, I made it out of clay 

And when it’s dry and ready, my dreidle I shall play

Chorus: Oh dreidle, dreidle, dreidle,  I made it out or clay

And when it’s dry and ready, my dreidle I shall play

3. One Little Two Little

One Little

Two little 

Three little Candles

Four little 

Five little

Six little candles

Seven little 

Eight little Chanukah candles

And the Shamash too!

4. Sevivon

Sivivon Sov Sov Sov

Chanukah Hu Chag Tov

Chanukah Hu Chag Tov 

Sivivon Sov Sov Sov

Chag Simcha Hu Laam 

Nes Gadol Haya Sham

Chag Simcha Hu Laam 

Nes Gadol Haya Sham!

5. Brachot Hadlakat Neirot:

Baruch Atah Ado-Nai Elo-heinu melech haolam asher kidishanu bemitzvotav vetzivanu lehadlik ner Chanukah

Baruch Ata Ado-nai Elo-heinu Melech Haolam Sheasa Nisim Lavoteinu Bayamim Hahem Bizman hazeh

 We have been practicing our counting skills with a make your own menorah station! 

For out upcoming sing a long our pre nursery friends have been working on their candle hats for their costumes! 

Fall Pt 2!

 We have been so busy the past few weeks finishing up our Fall unit! we had so much fun learning about the changes this season and unit brings to the weather, animals and colours all around us! 

Making Fall play dough added a sweet (cinnamon) touch to one of most off our favourite sensory activities! such wonderful bakers! 

 Leaf painting! 

 When we have an activity that we are able to display in the classroom it takes the childrens leaning to a deeper level. They are able to look back on the fun they had making it, and remember what they had learned about. Here is our wonderful fall mural that is now our beautiful window hanging in the pre-nursery class! 

Sensory painting with cobs of corn! 

Our nursery friends did a wonderful job graphing and sorting all of the different coloured leaves we collected! 

Our "Silly fall tree" activity was u huge hit! Reggio inspired activities like this one allow the children to self direct their learning. This activity encourages, fine motor, hand eye coordination and colour matching and recognition! 

 Fall tree portraits! 

During our morning circles we have spent time in the nursery class talking about hibernation and how the animals get all ready for the cold winter by collecting food such as acorns in the fall. Here we used this opportunity to bring our circle time to life by making our own acorns! 

Yoga with Morah Catalina! We always have so much fun! 

 

Our Nursery friends have been very busy with math and literacy activities, Making patterns, practicing counting and stamping our names!