Pre-Nursery Farm!

Howdy! This past unit we hopped on the tractor and headed to the Farm! We met some animals: Hershel the horse, Shelley the sheep, Chester the Chicken and Moo the cow (our friends helped name our cow). We learned all about how the farmers grow vegetables and so much more! It was a YEE HAW good time, Take a look and see! 

We got started off with some science discovery! Sorting animals from wild to farm.

 Making moo the cow! 

 No farm is complete without a Barn! 

Collaborative art projects are so important for kids. They build community, foster cooperation, eliminate competition, and most importantly they are social and FUN!

 Gross motor fun with our parachute! 

 Farm mathwork sheet! 

 Using paint bags, we were able to explore and see the different foot prints each animal on the farm has! 

Hershel the Horse! 

We partnered this art activity with one of the unit based songs we've been singing by circle time for our farm unit: 

5 Little Horses in the Barn, 

5 little horses in the Barn, 

5 little horses in the barn, 

5 little horses! 

oh no! 1 galloped away!

4 Little Horses in the Barn, 

4 little horses in the Barn, 

4 little horses in the barn, 

4 little horses! 

oh no! 1 galloped away!

3 Little Horses in the Barn, 

3 little horses in the Barn, 

3 little horses in the barn, 

3 little horses! 

oh no! 1 galloped away! 

2 Little Horses in the Barn, 

2 little horses in the Barn, 

2 little horses in the barn, 

2 little horses! 

oh no! 1 galloped away!

1 Little Horses in the Barn, 

1 little horses in the Barn, 

1 little horses in the barn, 

 little horses! 

oh no! 1 galloped away!

No Little Horses in the Barn, 

no little horses in the Barn, 

no little horses in the barn, 

no  little horses! 

(make galloping noises) 

Oh look they all came back! 

5 Little Horses in the Barn, 

5 little horses in the Barn, 

5 little horses in the barn, 

5 little horses! 

 Milking the Cow! This science activity mixed with dramatic play really made us feel like we were on the farm! 

Literacy development with our farm vocabulary! There were great conversations happening everywhere! Children were having discussions if the letter matched or not, working together to find the right match, making connections to students names and talking about the sounds the letters made! 

Fine motor fun making Shelley, our sheep, with cotton balls and pinchers! 

 Sensory time feeling the different vegetables that grow on the farm! 

This week we welcomed our caterpillars! we were so excited to hold them and say hi! we can't wait to really discover them when we jump into our next unit on butterflies and bugs! 

 All ready for sports with Coach Zev! 

Time to shear some sheep! 

 Building magnet tile barns! What's going to work? Teamwork! 

 Painting with corn! 

 Matching our chicken egg letters! 

We are counting the days till we get the Torah!

 We are the Guarantors for the Torah! We will do, We will listen, We will understand!

Can't believe its almost Shavout!

Standing at Har Sinai, ready to accept the Torah!

Rabbi Zarchi brought us into the shul and let us hug the Torah.We got to see the Aron Kodesh, look at the Torahs inside and even give the real Torah a hug! As we marched down the stairs, we sang "We are on our way to get the Torah". It was very exciting!!!

We made a beautiful name flower. First, we painted a canvas, then we looked for the letters in our name and we glued the letter petals onto our name. The children were so proud of their work as they were able to identify the letters of their name.

We have been learning about the letter Vav. The children decorated the Vav with roses- Veredim! They coloured them in red and glued the roses onto the Vav.

We used flowers to create our own Har Sinai. We used the pink, white and yellow flowers to create patterns. 

We went outside and enjoyed playing water in the water tables. We played with sponges, water toys and we even used nets to collect fishies.

We pretended to be scribes and used a feather to write the Aleph bet letters we have been learning!

As we scribed our letters, we said their name out loud. The children are really learning so much and love singing "Aleph Bet".

We turned our Kitchen Center into a real Ice Cream shop. We had all different flavours of Ice cream, sprinkles, fancy drinks and even cones. The children used a cash register, clipboards and money to purchase their ice cream. We had such a great time! It was delicious !

The children were role-playing and pretending they were at the Inside Scoop. The conversations were amazing to listen to and we couldn't believe how much they understand and can role play with one another.

Shabbat Party is so exciting in our class! We love to sing Shabbat songs, make our chicken soup, light the candles and be the Ima/Aba. 

 

On Friday we celebrated with a big party for our Mommies/Ima's. We sang songs in circle time, we made beautiful boxes with our mothers/bubbies and we ate delicious muffins too! It was special to have all the mothers, bubbies and the children together!

We made our har Sinai mountain and then we created pictures of ourselves at the mountain. We learned that we were all there at Har Sinai ready to get the Torah and we opened our arms to receive it!

We have been learning the letter "Hey". We used beads to create the letter on a mirror, we drew with our fingers on the letter Hey and we decorated the letter Hey too. We are learning all the letters in the Torah!